Are you looking to work in a collaborative and supportive team
environment where your contribution is recognised and valued? Are you
keen to develop your career within a global law firm that offers clear
progression opportunities? Then this could be the role for you.
We are looking for a Commercial Litigation Associate to join our
highly successful Litigation team in our Birmingham office. This is an
exciting time to join the team, with the opportunity to work from an
international platform in a vibrant and growing city.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law
firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business
and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business
solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading
corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and
sovereign nations.
With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four
continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global
influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North
America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In
the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive
working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK
offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI
programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support
individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal
and professional goals.
Our Team
Our UK Litigation practice is dedicated to providing clients with
strategic advice and advocacy on their most complex litigation and
dispute resolution needs across the globe. There is a focus towards
corporate and commercial work, with specific niche areas such as
sanctions/export controls, procurement, education and pensions litigation.
Our Opportunity
Our highly successful Litigation group in Birmingham is looking for a
commercial litigator to work on a broad spread of matters across our
global platform. The partners in the group advise on a wide range of
litigious issues.
Our goal is to ensure that our litigation and advocacy strategy is
aligned with our clients' business and commercial interests, on both a
global and regional level. We are focused on providing our clients
with the highest quality of service and representation and becoming a
long-term trusted adviser.
We want to see you succeed in this role so you will have plenty of
support and the opportunity to represent our firm when meeting clients
and enhance your business development skills.
You
You will be a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and have a
solid background in Commercial Litigation (ideally 3-6 PQE). You will
be able to demonstrate that you are enthusiastic, driven and keen to
develop your business development skills. You will be committed to
building a long-term career in this area of the country and in this
area of law. You will be happy to turn your hand to whatever comes
your way, as well as be solution-focused, with clients at the centre
of all you do.
Strong academics are a given, but the ability to turn your academic
knowledge into client-focused commercial advice will be key to
succeeding in this role. Ideally, you will be coming from a
well-recognised international, national or regional practice.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please
visit our Careers website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in
the first instance. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing
basis, please complete an online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is
representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications
regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental
status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable
adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is
inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant
data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.
