Lawyer - Commercial (part time, Fixed Term in London

Footballco is the world's leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover everything in football from news and analysis, original reporting, and social media content, to web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores.

Footballco has a small but dedicated in-house legal team. The purpose of the Solicitor / Barrister role will be primarily to provide practical legal advice on commercial contracts across the Football Group of companies around the world. In addition, as an in-house lawyer flexibility will be required to provide legal advice on a wide range of issues to ensure compliance with applicable law, regulations and best practices. The successful candidate will also need to undertake a variety of administrative and client relationship tasks.

The Solicitor or Barrister will be responsible for:

• Drafting and preparing documents, undertaking contract reviews and contract management.
• Managing documents and the legal teams reporting systems.
• Supporting our group Legal Counsel with a wider range of matters with a particular focus on commercial contracts.
• Assisting with intellectual property cases, company secretarial matters, employment and a wide range of legal issues across the group practice.

We are looking for applicants with 0-3 years PQE who have built a solid foundation in contract law. We expect you to be able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of different types of contract as well as contract terms and also the key legal, commercial and operational issues across a range of contracts.

The role will involve:

• Reviewing and managing contract and commercial agreement reviews on a wide range of matters.
• Undertaking legal research on applicable regulations, laws and legal requirements.
• Preparing legal documents, such as contracts, correspondence with other parties and when necessary legal pleadings.
• Preparing reports for the group General Counsel, Senior Solicitor and/or other employees of FootballCo.
• Conducting meetings with internal clients and providing them with legal information and taking instructions.
• Monitoring changes to government guidelines or regulations and submitting reports on pertinent changes.
• Organising legal files and administration of work flow and case management systems.
• Maintaining contracts databases.
• Arranging meetings with clients and other lawyers.
• Attending to general administrative duties and basic clerical tasks.
• Liaising with external legal and company secretarial services providers.
• Providing support to the legal, Finance and Human Resources teams in implementing training new policies and procedures and operational and organisational objectives.
• Complying with all relevant internal rules, policies and procedures.

This role will work very closely with the General Counsel and Senior Solicitor and will need to build strong working relationships with employees at all levels across the FootballCo Group.

Qualifications:

• Qualified as a Solicitor or Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive in England and Wales.
• Sound knowledge of Law and Legal System.
• Experience using Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong legal research skills and familiarity with the use of precedents and external legal resources.
• Commercially aware and willing to participate in group training.
• 0-3 years post-qualification experience, preferably in commercial contracts.
• Experience working in an in-house legal team.
• Experience negotiating terms of commercial agreements from a B2B perspective.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.