88 Allen Overy jobs in the United Kingdom

Head of legal services

With a proud history spanning over 50 years, the University of Bath has grown significantly in both scale and reputation, now home to a vibrant community of over 20,000 students from 153 countries. Renowned for its excellence in teaching and research, the University consistently ranks among the UK’s top five in the Complete University Guide 2024 and is placed 132nd globally in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Named 'University of the Year' and ranked 8th in the UK by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025, Bath is celebrated for its outstanding student experience and teaching quality. Its three Faculties - Engineering & Design, Science, and Humanities & Social Sciences - alongside the School of Management, develop a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and global impact.

Role

The Head of Legal Services leads the delivery of legal guidance across the University’s academic and commercial operations. The role includes ensuring legal compliance, managing risk, and leading all aspects of the legal and Freedom of Information teams. Responsibilities include tracking legislative changes, briefing leadership, and handling legal matters with discretion. The position reports to the Director of Legal, Governance & Compliance and includes managing relationships with external legal counsel. The role involves making decisions, adapting to change, and working within a regulatory framework.

• Provide legal advice to senior leadership on legislation and compliance.
• Lead legal input into governance, contracts, property transactions, and dispute resolution.
• Oversee engagement with external legal counsel and manage contract negotiations.
• Support legal processes in student and staff casework, including appeals and grievances.
• Advise on Freedom of Information (FOI) processes and responses.
• Work with Risk & Compliance to meet reporting requirements.
• Create legal templates, toolkits, and training materials to support compliance.
• Maintain the University’s central contracts repository.
• Conduct legal due diligence and raise unresolved risks.
• Direct the Legal and FOI teams, set goals, and coordinate training.
• Supervise legal staff and manage the legal services budget.
• Maintain solicitor registration and participate in legal networks.
• Provide legal advice to the Vice-Chancellor on institutional matters.

About You

This is an exciting opportunity to join the University of Bath as a highly experienced legal professional. As a qualified solicitor or barrister eligible to practise in England and Wales, you bring experience in leading legal teams across areas such as employment law, contracts, litigation, and compliance. You are able to explain legal issues clearly to non-legal audiences and manage Freedom of Information processes and consumer protection matters. You guide and support teams, make decisions under pressure, and stay informed about legal developments and sector requirements. With a practical approach, you contribute to decision-making and help maintain legal standards across the institution. The role involves working with others across the University and engaging with external legal networks.

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace  
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn .

Travel to Bath

Bath, known for its Georgian architecture and natural hot springs, has been a desirable place to live since Roman times. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it holds legal protection for its cultural significance. Residents appreciate the green surroundings, parks, hills, and independent shops alongside the iconic Georgian landscape. The city hosts various cultural events like the Bath Literature, Music, and Comedy Festivals, "Bath in Fashion" Week, and the annual Bath Digital Festival, providing entertainment for residents. Find essential travel advice at Travel advice (bath.ac.uk) .

Equal Opportunity

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism-friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Closing Date: 01 Oct 2025

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Due to continued growth, our client has a new opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

Are you an experienced Legal Cashier, an experienced Accounts Assistant - or are you looking to start your Accounts career having gained the qualifications - just hungry for the chance to get stuck in?

If so, you could be perfect to join this close-knit, friendly accounts team. This role is full or part time, office based.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assisting with day-to-day accounts and transactions
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Due to continued growth, our client has a new opportunity for an Accounts Assistant to join their team.

Are you an experienced Legal Cashier, an experienced Accounts Assistant - or are you looking to start your Accounts career having gained the qualifications - just hungry for the chance to get stuck in?

If so, you could be perfect to join this close-knit, friendly accounts team. This role is full or part time, office based.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assisting with day-to-day accounts and transactions
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A renowned law firm based in Nottingham urgently seeks a Receptionist/Administrator to join their national client services and reception team to deliver excellent reception and administrative services. This Receptionist/ Administrator role starts ASAP and is initially a temporary role but with the view to becoming a permanent position after the initial period of temping. We are looking for candidates who want to commit to a permanent position. This role will start in September.

The temporary assignment will last about 5-6 weeks and pay £13.68 per hour (£2.21+ .47 holiday pay). The permanent role will pay 5,150 annually.

The working hours for this Receptionist/ Admin role are 37.5 hours per week. Preferable background: Hotels, Airlines, Spa/Golf Clubs, other Law Firms, or any credible office background.

Receptionist/ Administrator duties:

· Keeping the reception area smart and tidy

· To man the company's reception switchboard

· Answering the phone to the company standard, transferring the call, and taking messages

· To greet all clients on arrival and assist them in a courteous & helpful manner

· Manage the Reception Outlook diary

· To assist the marketing team with in-house events

· Order all lunches, breakfasts & dinners when required

· Ordering all stock and completing monthly stocktake

· Coding and reconciling all invoices

· To work alongside other teams and provide support when needed at the respective office(s)

· Monitor and maintain all internal meeting rooms to a high standard

· Setting up conference calls

· Assist with all travel/hotel bookings for internal clients

-Facilities support; dealing with and distributing the post, and filing documents.

Receptionist/ Administrator skills & experience

· Previous receptionist experience in a Reception/Hospitality role

· High standard of professional appearance

· Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines

A renowned law firm based in Nottingham urgently seeks a Receptionist/Administrator to join their national client services and reception team to deliver excellent reception and administrative services. This Receptionist/ Administrator role starts ASAP and is initially a temporary role but with the view to becoming a permanent position after the initial period of temping. We are looking for candidates who want to commit to a permanent position. This role will start in September.

The temporary assignment will last about 5-6 weeks and pay £13.68 per hour (£2.21+ £ 47 holiday pay). The permanent role will pay £25,150  nually.

The working hours for this Receptionist/ Admin role are 37.5 hours per week. Preferable background: Hotels, Airlines, Spa/Golf Clubs, other Law Firms, or any credible office background.

Receptionist/ Administrator duties:

· Keeping the reception area smart and tidy

· To man the company's reception switchboard

· Answering the phone to the company standard, transferring the call, and taking messages

· To greet all clients on arrival and assist them in a courteous & helpful manner

· Manage the Reception Outlook diary

· To assist the marketing team with in-house events

· Order all lunches, breakfasts & dinners when required

· Ordering all stock and completing monthly stocktake

· Coding and reconciling all invoices

· To work alongside other teams and provide support when needed at the respective office(s)

· Monitor and maintain all internal meeting rooms to a high standard

· Setting up conference calls

· Assist with all travel/hotel bookings for internal clients

-Facilities support; dealing with and distributing the post, and filing documents.

Receptionist/ Administrator skills & experience

· Previous receptionist experience in a Reception/Hospitality role

· High standard of professional appearance

· Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines

Legal Receptionist - Central Cardiff

Reporting to the operations manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing a first class service on Reception and to the team on a range of legal and non-legal tasks.

About the Role

Working from offices in Cardiff, you will act as the first point of contact for the firm and will provide ad hoc support on a range of matters.

Amongst other things.

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Our client, a leading and established US Law Firm is seeking a Graduate HR Administrator to join them on a full-time, permanent basis.

Due to growth our client is looking to expand their HR function within the firm, seeking a Graduate HR Administrator to join them at an exciting time.

This is the ideal role for someone with Administration experience either looking to get into their first HR role, or someone with some HR Administration experience looking to