Construction Lawyer - In House - Data Centres in London

Our client is experiencing rapid growth and requires specialist strategic construction support as their business expands data centre operations across Europe. We are looking for a mid to senior Construction lawyer to support them for 6 to 12 months.

What You'll Do

• You’ll play a key role in supporting the acquisition, build‐out, and, in some cases, lease co‐locations for additional data centres.
• Working closely with an experienced in‐house construction expert, you’ll help deliver ambitious growth plans.
• The work will be varied and focused on non‐contentious construction matters.

What We’re Looking For

• Construction Expertise: Ideally with experience in data centre projects.
• Ability to manage multiple matters, set priorities, and drive tasks/projects to completion with structure and clarity.
• Skilled at simplifying complex topics, engaging stakeholders, and creating compelling decks and dashboards to highlight business risk.
• Trusted collaborator who can align stakeholders and navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.

Contract Details

• Working Pattern: Full‐time.
• Start Date: As soon as possible.
• Duration: 6–12 months.

Why Join LOD?

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.

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.

About LOD

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 range from globally recognised multinationals to start‐ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.