Professional Support Lawyer – Commercial & Technology

at  Shoosmiths

PQE:

6 years +
Term:

Permanent
Team:
Commercial Group
Location:

Any regional location
The role
Passionate about the technical aspects of the law? Looking for something more? If so, we’d like to talk to you.
We’re keen to speak with accomplished Commercial and Technology lawyers who are looking for an alternative role as a Professional Support Lawyer. As an expert in your field, you will have PSL experience to date but we would also be interested to hear from those in fee-earning roles with an interest in making a change. This is an innovative, progressive team and you will have every opportunity to add value and develop your skill set.
This role will be integral to maintaining a first rate know-how platform for lawyers across our 2 key aspects of our commercial team; Complex Contracts and IT & Tech. It will be intellectually challenging and stimulating work to draw out your expertise in this area and support our fee-earners deliver an up to date gold service for our clients.
Our commercial team spans our national office network and we can be flexible with where this role is based to suit you. We take pride in an agile and flexible workplace culture and would also consider remote working for this role.

We’re a top 40 law firm with 13 offices and 1,600 staff including over 200 partners, and an extensive international practice. Our clients include some of the largest financial, automotive and technology businesses in the UK.
Our work in both the Complex Contracts and Technology teams is complex, interesting and often high profile, including many large scale national and cross boarder projects. This includes teams specialising in supply chain, logistics, consumer law, public procurement, outsourcing, advertising/marketing/brand, IT outsourcing, IT procurement, FinTech, Web3 and metaverse. We are continuing our ascent through the Legal 500 rankings and boast a number of leading practitioners and tier 1 rankings in our key locations for this type of specialism. As a measure of our success, we were awarded “TMT team of the year” in last year’s Legal Business Awards. As the dedicated PSL – you will have a pivotal role in supporting and maintaining the technical excellence and know-how of this team and influence over the development of this role.
With a focus on our loyal client base, this role will be central in helping us to achieve our ambitions for developing our internal expertise and systems and helping us drive our external brand forward.
Most importantly of all, we strongly believe we can offer you a different experience. Our culture is open, collegiate and supportive. We invest in bringing the best out of everyone. We are proud of our commitment to creating a positive working environment and exploring flexible options for our people and we would be happy to receive applications from those requiring flexible working arrangements.
We champion diversity and inclusion, and our mission is to attract and nurture a diverse group of people and to create an environment and culture that is genuinely inclusive, in which every member of staff feels valued for their contribution. We were also the first major law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People and this year we achieved the Platinum Standard accreditation.
If you’d like to find out more, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be delighted to talk to you.

We have an outstanding benefits package to complement our competitive remuneration system. In addition to the competitive salaries, great working environment and high-quality work, we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
To discover more about our benefits, please visit: Benefits Package
We are a values-driven business – our values are at the core of the firm and we evaluate how we behave in accordance with these values through a competency framework. This role is considered to be at competency Level 2 in our internal framework, depending on experience.
Equal opportunities
Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well being. Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.
This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
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