Your new company
This is a Top 100 national law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London.
The firm advises businesses across construction, energy & resource management, higher education and financial services, complementing the firm's market leadership within housing, local government and health & social care.
They currently employ over 600 people, including over 90 Partners, and their award-winning teams provide construction, commercial, corporate, property, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal advice.
Your new team
The Litigation, Regulatory and Public Law team is a market leader in the health, social care and local government sectors and continues to grow its profile and client base in the financial services, commercial, and higher education sectors. The team sits within the Litigation, Advisory & Regulatory department which deals with substantial commercial, regulatory and public law disputes. The team primarily acts for public bodies such as local authorities, health trusts, regulators, oversight bodies, statutory bodies, and they also act for higher education institutions and corporates including private and charity sector providers of public services.
In joining their growing team, you will have the opportunity to work for a number of the firm's key strategic clients and a range of partner leads and colleagues, across several of the firm's key sectors, whilst managing your own caseload. Given the nature of our clients the cases on which we work regularly touch on live socio-economic or political issues whether that be within local government, health, higher education or financial services; often raising novel issues. We find that our work is highly rewarding as a result. We have strong and trusted partnerships with the clients we work with who genuinely value our support and tell us so.
The team wholeheartedly embrace hybrid working with each colleague having flexibility to self-determine what works for them. The firm has an exciting and ambitious strategic growth plan, which means there is significant opportunity to support career progression for the right candidate
Your new role
The firm are recruiting a solicitor (3-5PQE) to join their busy and diverse litigation, advisory and regulatory team working for a range of public and private sector clients across a range of sectors. The role will focus on the regulatory and public law work that we do. The successful candidate will be involved in:
- Advising regulatory bodies, across sectors including financial services, professional discipline and other sector and economic regulators, on the use of their regulatory powers, including handling appeals and public law challenges.
- Advising ombuds schemes on decision-making and handling complaints and challenges
- Advising public services providers, commissioners and regulators on their decision-making, including the risk of judicial review
- Handling judicial review claims in the High Court and appellate courts
- Supporting clients in responding to regulatory interventions
- Supporting clients engaging with public inquiries, including advice on disclosure obligations and responding to r9 requests/s21 notices.
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