LLP - Solicitor - Dispute Resolution
Job Introduction
The Bristol Commercial Dispute Resolution team acts for in-house legal departments, corporate clients, private individuals and insurers across a broad range of sectors. The team has a particular focus on the financial services industry and is ranked as Tier 1 in the Legal 500 rankings, with a number of highly regarded and recognised leading individuals heading the team.
The team handles a wide variety of commercial litigation work, with a financial services litigation specialism, and regularly acts in complex criminal and financial regulatory cases including investigations and prosecutions brought by HMRC, the CPS, the SFO, FCA and the Insolvency Service. They also advise corporate, public and regulatory bodies on internal investigations as well as systems and controls to ensure compliance with criminal and regulatory obligations.
The work is high-value, often international in nature and the our focus is always on achieving the best outcome possible for the client. The team's revenue has increased substantially in recent years and continues to expand, hence this additional recruitment.
Role Responsibility
We are looking for someone with the ability to advise our corporate and public sector clients in white collar, general crime and regulatory litigation. You will assist our clients in avoiding unknowingly perpetrating, or becoming the victim of, white collar crime as well as to act on behalf of our clients in a diverse range of criminal and regulatory proceedings.
As well as supporting Partners in larger matters as well as managing your own caseload, you will act as a point of contact for clients while demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
You will exercise full compliance with DAC Beachcroft protocols on billing and credit control and demonstrate a high level of financial management in respect of own files.
There is a requirement to support marketing and business development activity within the team, and also to maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
The Ideal Candidate
- Qualified lawyer (circa 1 - 3 PQE) with experience of criminal investigations/litigation. Applications from members of the Bar are welcome.
- Very good relationship and client handling skills, commensurate with experience.
- Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
- Able to demonstrate a good level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
- Team-oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support members of the team.
- Willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team to help it continue to develop and to achieve its objectives.
About the Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.
We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.
We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.
Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.
Application Details
At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are. We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.
We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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