Trainee Solicitor

• Provision of legal advice – risks and mitigations - on the following topics: Contract law
• IP and IT law
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment law
• Procurement processes (including public procurement)
• Review and negotiation of: Confidentiality agreements
• Service contracts
• Subcontract agreements
• Framework agreements
• Purchase terms and conditions
• IT license agreements
• Internal support for the legal function: Contract summaries and maintaining online databases and registers
• Administering large Framework Agreements
• Ad hoc tasks to support other lawyers and other colleagues
• Assistance with the production and delivery of internal training
• Identifying commercial and legal risk and suitable strategies for mitigation: Supporting (and eventually leading) all aspects of legal support with the business
• Assisting internal clients through the internal processes
• Minimising legal risk within the business more generally
• Assisting Procurement to negotiate successfully and within PA’s risk boundaries
• Assisting Audit with internal reviews
• Promoting best practice
• Retaining and filing all relevant documentation
• Delivering training to the business

• Must be able to qualify either through the SQE route or the LPC route (with degree or equivalent)
• Evidence of problem-solving ability
• Experience of customer facing roles
• Ability to deal with a wide variety of internal and external clients, with differing backgrounds (commercial, legal, academic and technical)
• Experience of working to a deadline and managing several deadlines at one time
• Ability to work with internal clients in other jurisdictions
• Ability to work alone and as part of a close-knit team
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to think creatively, to provide guidance and pragmatic solutions rather than ‘the letter of the law’
• An interest in the wider business and its ventures
• Ability to work through complex legal documentation, identifying commercial as well as legal risk
• The ability to pass security screening and the right to work in the UK

Experience negotiating and clear writing a benefit but not essential

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)