Solicitor - DSAR

Job Introduction

The London Employment Pensions and Immigration team comprises 35 fee earners and acts for an impressive roster of household name clients across the financial services, technology, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong reputation in the London market and is recognised as Tier 1 in Legal 500 and Band 2 in Chambers.

The team proudly boasts a market-leading Employment Privacy practice, including a bespoke and innovative data subject access request (DSAR) service to complement its employment offering. We have plans for significant growth across existing and new clients for the DSAR service. We are looking for a newly qualified or recently qualified lawyer to support the expansion of the DSAR service.

Role Responsibility

• Work under the supervision of a senior DSAR lawyer to undertake a busy and varied workload advising employers in each of our key sectors on their DSARs. 
• Work on high-profile, sensitive and complex DSARs involving discrimination, whistleblowing and redundancy under appropriate supervision.
• Undertake a period of bespoke training in DSAR law and practice specific to the service and the needs of our clients. 
• Assist senior lawyers to set strategy and deliver high-quality and consistent DSAR responses across our client base. 
• Monitor developments in DSAR law and practice. 
• Assist senior lawyers in supervising the work of (and assist in the professional development of) trainees and paralegals.
• Assist with marketing, networking and other business development activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients. 
• Contribute to non-fee-earning activity as appropriate e.g. knowledge building and maintaining precedents. 
• Assist with the next stage of service development and growth plans.

About DAC Beachcroft

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're 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-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

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. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as 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!

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 resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

DAC Beachcroft