Your newpany
This is a rare senior leadership opportunity within a large,plex public‑interest organisation responsible for regulation and conduct in the UK’s corporate and professional landscape. The legal function handles high‑value, high‑risk litigation and investigations involvingplex financial issues, senior executives and major professional advisers. Matters are technically demanding andmercially sensitive yet fulfilling. The culture is collegiate and intellectually rigorous, operating within a relatively flat structure where senior lawyers are trusted to exercise judgement, challenge viewpoints and drive oues. Collaboration, credibility and delivery are valued more highly than hierarchy.
Your new role
This is a newlycreated Casework (Legal) Director position, sitting at the top end of the legal function. The role carries responsibility for leading and shaping a major portfolio ofplex litigation and investigations, while establishing structure, identity and efficiency within a large multidisciplinary team that has grown significantly in recent years.
You will lead a team of approximately 20–25 professionalsprising senior lawyers and forensic accountants, within a broader function of around 40 lawyers and 30 accountants. While experienced practitioners handle the technical litigation day ‑ to ‑ day, this role holds full accountability for case progression, quality, resourcing and delivery.
This is not a purely technical role. It is a senior leadership position requiring authority, judgement, and the ability to bring order, pace and clarity to complex, long ‑ running matters.
What you'll need to succeed
The clearest measure of success in this role is case efficiency and delivery.
To succeed, you will be expected to:
1. Lead a clearly defined casework unit with full managerial accountability
2. Introduce structure, routines and reporting in a previously matrixed environment
3. Drive pace, prioritisation and oues acrossplex, contested litigation and investigations
4. Make and own strategic judgements on: sufficiency of evidence investigative focus and direction use of external Counsel, expert witnesses and advisers
5. Line ‑ manage senior team leaders, taking responsibility for quality control, performance management and professional development
6. Build a cohesive and collaborative team identity, rather than a hierarchical one
7. Improve processes and delivery while maintaining legal rigour
8. Engage confidently with top ‑ tier law firms, audit firms and senior stakeholders
9. Exercise judgement under pressure and challenge information where required
This role is only suitable for candidates who meet all of the following criteria:
10. You must be a qualified lawyer in England & Wales with sufficient PQE
11. Proven litigation background, includingplex and contested matters
12. Meaningful financial experience, such as corporate reporting, audit, financial misconduct, fraud or regulatory investigations
13. Demonstrable experience managing and leading teams, including performance management and accountability for delivery
14. A track record of improving efficiency, structure or oues in a litigation or investigations environment
15. Confidence operating at senior level with external law firms, auditors and advisers
What you'll get in return
16. A genuinely senior leadership position with real influence over people, structure and delivery
17. Exposure to some of the mostplex financial and corporate investigations in the UK
18. The opportunity to build and shape a team, not simply inherit one
19. A supportive, collegiate culture with highly capable, mission ‑ driven colleagues
20. Work that is clearly and directly in the public interest
21. Hybrid working (minimum 40% office ‑ based)