Swinburne Maddison LLP
Location
North East England | United Kingdom
Job description
Would you like to be part of our talented Corporate team?
Swinburne Maddison is Durham City’s leading law firm and in 2023 will be celebrating our 25th anniversary. We are a progressive and forward-thinking firm, operating from modern premises conveniently located on the outskirts of the city.
We are an ambitious, multi-disciplinary practice dedicated to providing first-class client care or quite simply “legal solutions that fit”. We place people, be they staff or clients, at the heart of everything we do and believe that our positive and supportive working environment really makes for a great place to work.
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Did you know we have an award-winning Corporate team?
In The Legal 500 2023 Edition, we were ranked as a Top Tier Firm for Corporate and Commercial services for the third year in a row. As a firm, we have previously won Law Firm of the Year (6+ Partners) at the 2017 Northern Law Awards and were finalists in 2018, 2019 and 2022.
In 2022 our team won Deal of the Year at the North East Insider Dealmaker Awards and were ranked in the top 5 by Experian in terms of deal activity by volume of deals completed.
You will be joining a busy and growing corporate and commercial team working on complex projects regionally, nationally and on a cross-border basis.
You will be advising on a range of complex and high-value commercial transactions many in the technology sector, covering intellectual property, software development, software licensing (including cloud), and data protection, as well as others of a more general nature including terms of online and offline business, distribution and agency and franchising.
The team provides advice to businesses of all sizes including start-ups, established SMEs, public limited companies and large public sector organisations.
The team regularly win and are shortlisted at leading regional award events and ranked in the top 5 in terms of deal activity (by volume of deals completed (Experian 2022)). All lawyers within the team are trained and work collaboratively to provide services around all aspects of the engagement and this is reflected in the quality of work that they undertake.
We are looking for a lawyer with upwards of 5+ PQE working at another commercial law firm and who has experience in providing commercial advice.
We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in the technology sector working on information technology, software and IP agreements.
The main attributes we look for, but will not be limited to, are given below: –
An existing professional network would be beneficial but is not necessary. Many opportunities will be provided for Business Development.
Please upload your CV and short covering letter email your CV together with a short cover letter/email to Carolyn Beal at [email protected]
Applications close at 5 pm on Thursday 1st February 2024
Job type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time/Part-time
The successful candidate can expect to be offered:
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