Employment Lawyer/senior Lawyer

Source by Temple Bright is a lawyer-led flexible legal support business. We place high calibre senior lawyers, compliance professionals and company secretaries in temporary and interim roles with clients across a broad range of UK industry sectors, including corporates, public bodies, SMEs and professional firms.

All candidates for our Panel are selected by our CEO Peter Workman, a former Magic Circle corporate lawyer and Big Four partner with twenty-plus years’ experience of working with in-house teams. Our sister business Temple Bright is an innovative law firm which operates a streamlined, partner-only model. By introducing Temple Bright partners to work alongside Source lawyers, we can offer our clients reasonably priced, high quality legal support “for an hour or a year, or anything between”. This approach also enables us to offer candidates a broader range of opportunities, and membership within a cohesive, flexible team of likeminded colleagues.

We invite applications from strong candidates in all commercial practice areas.

• Employment lawyers: We are seeing continued high demand from clients for experienced employment lawyers with a breadth of experience across the full spectrum of workforce-related issues. We are interested in hearing from high quality employment lawyers with expertise in the principal contentious and non-contentious areas including contract drafting (reflecting current employment legislation and best practice), compliance (particularly in connection with HR issues, equal pay and other employment governance issues), and tribunal and complex litigation matters.
• Commercial lawyers: We have a number of clients searching for experienced in-house commercial lawyers for in-house placements. Exceptional contract drafting and negotiation skills are required, with an emphasis on key in-house specialties including IT, outsourcing, supplier and customer contracts.
• Corporate lawyers: We regularly hear from clients seeking lawyers to support them with a range of corporate legal projects, including mergers and acquisitions, funding rounds, joint ventures, legal due diligence (buy and sell side) and large scale restructuring projects.
• Data protection lawyers: We would like to speak to experienced data protection professionals about a range of exciting in-house roles. Our clients seek a high degree of proficiency across the key areas of UK and European data protection legislation and regulation as well as significant practical experience of best practice in connection with compliance monitoring and correct data use and storage.
• IP and technology lawyers: We have a number of clients seeking experienced IP and technology lawyers to work across a broad spectrum of IP, technology and media matters and projects. We would like to speak to high quality lawyers with broad experience (contentious, non-contentious or mixed) in areas such as trademarks and designs, advertising and sponsorship, reputation management, copyright and content, and digital platforms.
• Real estate lawyers: We have a number of clients seeking experienced real estate lawyers to work across a broad spectrum of property matters and projects. We would like to speak to high-quality lawyers with broad experience (contentious, non-contentious or mixed) in areas such as commercial property transactions, development agreements, landlord and tenant matters, planning law, and property finance. We regularly see opportunities across acquisitions, disposals, leasing, and real estate litigation.
• Financial services lawyers: We have a number of clients seeking experienced financial services lawyers to work across a broad spectrum of regulatory and transactional financial services matters and projects. We would like to speak to high-quality lawyers with broad experience (contentious, non-contentious or mixed) in areas such as regulatory compliance within a financial services context, financial product development and distribution, banking and lending regulations, payments and e-money, financial crime and anti-money laundering, and regulatory investigations and enforcement. We regularly see opportunities across advising on regulatory frameworks, transactional support, and representing clients in regulatory proceedings.
• Funds lawyers: We have a number of clients seeking experienced funds lawyers to work across a broad spectrum of investment fund matters and projects. We would like to speak to high-quality lawyers with broad experience (contentious, non-contentious or mixed) in areas such as private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, and regulatory compliance. We regularly see opportunities across fund formation, investor negotiations, regulatory advice, and secondary transactions.
• Company secretarial professionals: We are seeing sustained demand for top tier company secretarial professionals to fill a range of assistant, deputy and company secretary roles within PLC, large corporate and SME clients. We would like to speak to candidates with high quality company secretarial experience including business ethics, corporate governance and legal and regulatory compliance.

We invite applications from UK-based solicitors, compliance professionals and company secretaries who have demonstrated expertise in leading commercial law firms or in-house legal or compliance departments. You may be in private practice or an in-house role, or you may be a freelance lawyer, company secretary or compliance professional who is open to fresh opportunities.

To learn more about joining our Panel, or to discuss your flexible legal support requirements, arrange a call or meeting with Peter.