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Are you an experienced Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) lawyer looking to step away from full-time fee-earning, whilst remaining at the cutting edge of the legal profession? Or are you a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) looking for your next challenge?

Our ES&H team are looking for a PSL who will be dedicated to providing a number of key services to fee-earner colleagues within the practice group. The role will require some interaction with clients and professional bodies, but also colleagues at all levels, with a focus on our UK and European offices.

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.

Our Team

Our ES&H practice work on some of the leading-edge matters in the field. You would be joining a team that is recognised as one of the premiere ES&H groups among leading international law firms. We develop creative and sophisticated strategies and solutions to the most complex ES&H challenges faced by our clients across the globe.

We have comprehensive expertise in all substantive areas of ES&H law and regulation, with experienced lawyers practicing throughout the UK, United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

We represent a diverse client base, with particular strength in iron and steelmaking, mining, transportation, chemical manufacturing and distribution, petroleum refining and distribution, pulp and papermaking, energy, municipal utilities, development and environmental services.

Our group excels in handling complex litigation, including challenges to new rules, defense of enforcement actions, advancement and defense of cost recovery actions, defense of multiparty and class action toxic tort actions and other environmental, safety and health litigation.

Our Opportunity

Whether you are in a similar role or stepping away from a fee-earning position, this is a fantastic opportunity to add real value to our close-knit, collaborative team. This is a varied role where you will utilise your in-depth legal knowledge to promote and instil technical excellence.

You will take the lead providing a vital service within key areas including training, research, and knowhow. As this is a highly technical and ever-evolving area of law, you will be responsible for managing and contributing to our databases, updating precedents and knowledge management systems. You will build your external network within the industry, ensuring we are at the forefront of all legal and legislative developments that may affect our clients. The role will also involve opportunities to work closely with our BD and marketing teams, to provide a value added service to existing and prospective clients through a range of training and knowledge sharing initiatives.

You'll have opportunities to work on cross-border matters, collaborating closely with our overseas teams on a range of international work. You will support on business development initiatives including knowledge management for clients, assistance with client pitches from a knowledge management/value add perspective, preparing and disseminating tailored updates to clients and identifying key horizon issues to help attract clients and cement existing relationships, assisting with legal directory submissions.

You

You will ideally be a minimum of 5 years' PQE, qualified to practise in an EU jurisdiction, or England & Wales, with a proven ability to effectively articulate, communicate and explain new areas of law to a wide range of stakeholders, including the ability to interact with and be accessible to people at all levels from trainees to partner. You will have strong organisational and time management skills, which are key to providing an outstanding service to our clients and colleagues.

Our ES&H practice spans a number of disciplines, including Health & Safety; Environment; ESG; products law and recall; chemical, biocides and pesticides regulation; and corporate criminal defence. Experience across a number of these key areas is preferable.

You must possess strong IT skills to conduct effective research and dissemination of information using various online systems. If you are a self-motivated individual, ready to take the next step in your career, apply today.

What you need to know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our careers site at https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance to find out more about our firm and complete an online application.We will be reviewing applications and interviewing on an ongoing basis.

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.

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