R&D Lawyer - NHS Trust in Cambridge

We are looking for an R&D lawyer to support a large NHS Trust for 6 months. You will be joining a small team of R&D lawyers and supporting with Oncology R&D-related legal matters. Your role will include:

• Working with professors, researchers, patients, pharma companies, and grant giving funds on the legal side of oncology-related matters.
• This role would suit someone who is looking for broad and varied experience across cutting edge technology such as AI, and for the development of new drugs for oncology.
• Working closely with the team to allocate funding effectively for new research.
• Ensuring compliance in a heavily regulated legal world.
• Dealing with ad-hoc legal queries related to the above.

Ideally, you will have prior experience in R&D from a pharma or life sciences background or other regulated background. This assignment will be full time, although we could also consider 3 or 4 days, with some office presence in Cambridge. It is due to start in January and is expected to run for 6 months.

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can. All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market-leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on-site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working. We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that ranges from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and includes the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.