At a Glance
- Tasks: Use your legal skills in a fresh, exciting role with top City clients.
- Company: Join Haggerty Jaques, a supportive and innovative workplace.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible working, and wellbeing perks.
- Other info: Bespoke training and a fun, friendly team await you!
- Why this job: Make a real impact while maintaining work/life balance and autonomy.
- Qualifications: Qualified lawyer with a passion for change and client relationships.
The predicted salary is between 29700 - 36300 £ per year.
Haggerty Jaques is keen to speak to qualified lawyers who are looking for an exciting change of direction without compromising on quality of work, clients, or remuneration.
The Opportunity
Instructed by our market-leading corporate client, we are looking for lawyers to join the team in a role that makes use of key legal skills and experience but in a completely different capacity. There will still be some similarities with the legal world:
- you will be working with and advising a sophisticated range of City-based clients with which there are long-standing, high value relationships;
- the focus of your role will be to consider, manage and mitigate risk on behalf of your clients;
- you will build great client relationships from an early stage and will become a trusted advisor;
- and you will be working within a specialist team of professionals which strives for commercial success.
What makes this role different is that:
- you won’t be recording billable hours;
- it will be far easier to predict workloads and manage your time;
- you will be able to enjoy a genuine work/life balance – there is no long-hours culture;
- you will have autonomy from an early stage;
- and your career progression will not be determined by a hierarchical structure. This is a workplace in which ideas for new workstreams are supported and celebrated.
The Ideal Candidate
This role would suit individuals with intellectual curiosity who are looking for a long-term alternative to a career in the legal profession, without losing any of their specialist skills. It would also particularly suit someone who wants to continue to be challenged and to develop but within an organisation that values life outside of work. You could have qualified as a solicitor within the last year or two or be a number of years into it. Your appetite for change is what matters most.
What Else Should You Know?
You’ll receive bespoke training tailored specifically to you and delivered by team members from day one until you are confident advising clients independently. There will be fantastic support from the wider team, many of whom made the same transition from the legal world. Employee wellbeing features very highly here and you will have your own annual allowance to use on a range of wellbeing benefits as well as access to an onsite gym. The team you will be joining is fun, friendly and collegiate. You can enjoy a great blend of working in the office and from home. There is free parking, EV charging points, and excellent transport links. This isn’t like any other opportunity and it will take you down a new and exciting career path.
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