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An international law firm is looking for an experienced solicitor to join their London team a Legal Counsel (Professional Indemnity), with a specific focus on professional liability and insurance.

The ideal candidate for the Legal Counsel (Professional Indemnity) would be a qualified solicitor with a strong background in civil or commercial litigation, ideally with experience in professional negligence or similar disputes.

As Legal Counsel (Professional Indemnity) you will work closely with the Head of Professional Liability and broader General Counsel function.

Key Responsibilities for the Legal Counsel (Professional Indemnity) role:

• Assist in the coordination and handling of professional liability and other claims made against the firm, including investigating allegations and supporting the drafting of responses.
• Respond to and manage client complaints, ensuring appropriate investigation and resolution in a timely manner.
• Liaise with external counsel on complex claims where required.
• Maintain detailed records of claims and complaints, managing associated deadlines and action points.
• Engage with the Legal Ombudsman in relation to complaints and resolutions.
• Support the notification of claims to insurers and help facilitate the renewal process for professional indemnity and broader insurance policies.
• Contribute to internal and regulatory investigations as directed by the General Counsel.
• Provide support on other contentious issues that may arise, including disputes involving third-party suppliers or vendors.
• Help ensure the firm meets its regulatory obligations, including compliance with the SRA Standards and Regulations.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Qualified solicitor (England & Wales) with a minimum of 5–7 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Strong background in civil or commercial litigation, ideally with experience in professional negligence or similar disputes.
• Previous involvement in professional liability matters, particularly involving legal services, is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with legal insurance coverage and related advisory work is an advantage.

If you are an experienced solicitor looking to take the next step in your career and contribute to the success of a leading international law firm, we would love to hear from you.

Compliance & Risk Counsel – Professional Liability – 3+ PQE

Our client is an international law firm with an outstanding reputation for excellence, headquartered in the City of London and offices across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

It is currently experiencing growth on a global scale, and the infrastructure is growing to support it.

We have an urgent requirement for a mid-level lawyer to join the internal legal, risk & compliance team to support on professional liability and insurance issues.

The wider team has 12 lawyers and 3 paralegals advising on all aspects of legal risk, financial crime, complaint, data privacy and regulation. You will be working directly for the Head of Professional Liability and handling a wide range of issues including assessing and tracking client complaints, dealing with insurance notifications, helping with insurance renewals, liaising with the SRA and Legal Ombudsman and managing claims. On more complex contentious matters, you will also need to instruct and liaise with outside counsel.

This is an interesting and busy role, and we are seeking a lawyer who can hit the ground running. You must be a qualified lawyer with 3+ years’ PQE in professional liability and professional negligence. Experience of advising in-house is an advantage but not essential. We are seeking an individual who is robust, has the ability to work independently, has a can-do attitude and is self-motivated. As the role will expose you to a wide range of fee-earners, senior stakeholders and external third parties we are seeking strong communication skills and confidence for building relationships.

The firm operates a hybrid policy of 60% in the office (3 days a week) and this role will be based in the London office.

If you are keen to know more about this opportunity, please get in touch with Michelle Corneby at Cyan Partners.

Compliance & Risk Counsel – Professional Liability – 3+ PQE

Our client is an international law firm with an outstanding reputation for excellence, headquartered in the City of London and offices across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

It is currently experiencing growth on a global scale, and the infrastructure is growing to support it.

We have an urgent requirement for a mid-level lawyer to join the internal legal, risk & compliance team to support on professional liability and insurance issues.

The wider team has 12 lawyers and 3 paralegals advising on all aspects of legal risk, financial crime, complaint, data privacy and regulation. You will be working directly for the Head of Professional Liability and handling a wide range of issues including assessing and tracking client complaints, dealing with insurance notifications, helping with insurance renewals, liaising with the SRA and Legal Ombudsman and managing claims. On more complex contentious matters, you will also need to instruct and liaise with outside counsel.

This is an interesting and busy role, and we are seeking a lawyer who can hit the ground running. You must be a qualified lawyer with 3+ years’ PQE in professional liability and professional negligence. Experience of advising in-house is an advantage but not essential. We are seeking an individual who is robust, has the ability to work independently, has a can-do attitude and is self-motivated. As the role will expose you to a wide range of fee-earners, senior stakeholders and external third parties we are seeking strong communication skills and confidence for building relationships.

The firm operates a hybrid policy of 60% in the office (3 days a week) and this role will be based in the London office.

If you are keen to know more about this opportunity, please get in touch with Michelle Corneby at Cyan Partners.

Are you an experienced legal professional looking for a part-time role with a prestigious local authority? One of my local government clients are currently seeking a Legal Officer to support our prosecutions under the Single Justice Procedure.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• p>Managing case files and liaising with business support to ensure timely action

• Drafting legal documents, letters, reports, and articles

• Instructing counsel, experts, and suppliers, including raising and receipting purchase orders

• Preparing and submitting electronic court bundles, including uploading to digital courtrooms

• Assisting with billing, administration, and diary management

• Attending court hearings and clerking as needed

• Supporting onboarding and training of new team members

• Aiding in LEXCEL accreditation preparation

• Recording time/matter information accurately using our case management system

What We’re Looking For:

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Strong organisational and administrative skills

• Experience working within a legal environment, ideally within a public sector legal team

• Confidence working independently and collaboratively

• A proactive attitude and high attention to detail

• Willingness to attend court and support high-level legal proceedings

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

This is a hybrid role 1 to 2 Days per week in the office

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Juan at Coyle Personnel

Are you an experienced legal professional looking for a part-time role with a prestigious local authority? One of my local government clients are currently seeking a Legal Officer to support our prosecutions under the Single Justice Procedure.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• p>Managing case files and liaising with business support to ensure timely action

• Drafting legal documents, letters, reports, and articles

• Instructing counsel, experts, and suppliers, including raising and receipting purchase orders

• Preparing and submitting electronic court bundles, including uploading to digital courtrooms

• Assisting with billing, administration, and diary management

• Attending court hearings and clerking as needed

• Supporting onboarding and training of new team members

• Aiding in LEXCEL accreditation preparation

• Recording time/matter information accurately using our case management system

What We’re Looking For:

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Strong organisational and administrative skills

• Experience working within a legal environment, ideally within a public sector legal team

• Confidence working independently and collaboratively

• A proactive attitude and high attention to detail

• Willingness to attend court and support high-level legal proceedings

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

This is a hybrid role 1 to 2 Days per week in the office

If interested in this role please send your CV to Lee-Juan at Coyle Personnel

You might not expect a global chemical manufacturer to be anything but corporate, but we’re different. As an employee-owned business with strong community values, we’re based in a beautiful Grade 2 listed manor house (with an on-site swimming pool!). We’re looking for a full or part-time lawyer to join our friendly legal team and help us keep everything running smoothly in this unique organisation.

As a member of our Legal Team, you will play a critical role in enabling Scott Bader to meet its strategic and operational objectives while ensuring legal and regulatory risks are managed effectively. This is a varied role covering commercial law, compliance, regulatory matters, dispute resolution, and corporate legal support in a global context.

You'll work closely with teams across the global organisation, providing pragmatic legal guidance that supports our values-driven approach. This is an opportunity to not only provide high-quality legal support but to actively shape how legal services are delivered and valued throughout the organisation.

This is a hybrid role, giving you the flexibility to work in a way that suits you. We do, however, believe there’s real value in spending time together in person, so we ask that you join us in the office at least one day a week. It’s a great opportunity to build strong relationships with your new colleagues and experience the unique setting we’re proud of.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Provide commercially focused legal advice across the global business to support informed and balanced decision-making.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts including supply, service, consultancy, IT/SaaS, distribution, licensing and collaboration agreements.
• Advise on legal compliance across key frameworks including data protection, anti-bribery, competition law, and export controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in R&D, commercial and operational teams to protect intellectual property and mitigate legal risks.
• Instruct, manage, and oversee external legal counsel efficiently, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal advice
• Contribute to legal department initiatives, knowledge sharing, and the delivery of legal training across the business.

What do I need to be successful in this role?

• A qualified lawyer
• A background in commercial law, ideally with some in-house experience.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to explain legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders.
• A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset and ability to manage competing priorities.
• We understand that candidates may not meet every requirement listed above. This description outlines the broad scope of the role and the types of matters you may encounter. If you believe this role aligns with your interests and experience — even if you don’t tick every box — we encourage you to reach out for a conversation. A resourceful mindset, strong judgment, and a collaborative, can-do attitude are often just as important as technical expertise.

What’s in it for me?

• A competitive salary alongside being included into our company bonus scheme. Our Group Staff Bonus & Profit Performance Pay bonus scheme reinforces the Scott Bader principle of working together for a common goal and sharing in our successes.
• Enhanced employer contribution whereby Scott Bader will contribute a maximum of 2x your contribution, up to a maximum of 10%.
• Private medical insurance alongside a host of further discounts and employee benefit schemes
• 25 days annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays – We also offer the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 day’s annual leave in case you need a couple of extra days.
• We offer all our employees one full day per year to complete volunteering work of your choice which is fully paid. Alongside this, if you are thinking about fundraising for your favourite charity or local community event, we will happily match the funds that you have raised up to a maximum of £1000 in any one year.
• Our Head Office sits within 44 acres of Northamptonshire countryside, nestled within the village of Wollaston. Access to free onsite car parking, electric car charging points, discounted cafeteria and even an onsite swimming pool.

Who are Scott Bader?

Scott Bader is an employee-owned global manufacturer of advanced composites, structural adhesives and functional polymers. Established in 1921, we have a century of expertise in manufacturing high-quality, innovative products for a variety of markets around the world. Scott Bader now employs 800 people across 7 manufacturing sites and 18 offices worldwide.

We are committed to expanding our global reach, with recent ventures including North America, India, Japan and Australia, while continuing to build on our reputation for innovation, outstanding quality and technical expertise.

Scott Bader is different to most other companies. Our business is based on the simple principle of maintaining a balance between our social purpose and business needs. In 1951 we became the first UK company to hold a Common Ownership Certificate when the Bader family handed over their shares to The Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited – in simple terms, this means that Scott Bader colleagues own and are responsible for the success and overall wellbeing of the company.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people, and ensures we treat each other and customers with respect. We appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high-quality service.)

Rix Capital, a single-family office, based in London, is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel / Legal Director . This new role will report to the existing General Counsel in advising the busy family office on a range of matters including wealth management (a multi-asset portfolio of public and private investments), private client, corporate governance (company secretarial), regulation, employment, philanthropy, real estate, and tax.

The ideal candidate will have qualified at a top-tier law firm in London, have at least 5-7 years PQE , and will have either spent some time in-house (with a family office, an asset manager or financial services firm), or have private client experience at a law firm.

This is a unique opportunity to join a lean and high-calibre team supporting a sophisticated and growing family office.

Responsibilities:

Transactional / Wealth Management

• Review, negotiate and manage legal documentation for private fund and direct investments, including LPAs, subscription agreements, side letters, co-investment and shareholder agreements.
• Coordinate with investment teams and external counsel to ensure smooth transaction execution.
• Analyse legal implications of investment structures (particularly around tax), financing arrangements, and exits across jurisdictions.

Corporate and Regulatory

• Maintain records of all corporate documentation and ensure highest standards of governance and compliance across the family’s operating and holding entities.
• Draft and review constitutional documents, board resolutions, NDAs and intra-group arrangements.
• Review, negotiate and manage a significant volume of commercial contracts including third party supplier terms, vendor contracts, consultancy agreements, etc.
• Support legal aspects of employment matters, data protection and service provider relationships.

Trusts, Foundations and Estate Structures

• Work with external advisors to maintain and review trust, foundation and holding structures used for estate, philanthropic and wealth planning purposes.
• Advise on charitable donations including grant agreements for restricted and unrestricted charitable grants.

Coordination and Advisory

• Assist the General Counsel with managing relationships with external law firms, tax advisers, fiduciaries and trustees.
• Provide timely and pragmatic advice to principals and senior team members on a wide range of legal matters.
• Support internal coordination across investments, finance, tax, HR and philanthropy functions.

This is an office-based role in the St James’s area, London.

Rix Capital, a single-family office, based in London, is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel / Legal Director . This new role will report to the existing General Counsel in advising the busy family office on a range of matters including wealth management (a multi-asset portfolio of public and private investments), private client, corporate governance (company secretarial), regulation, employment, philanthropy, real estate, and tax.

The ideal candidate will have qualified at a top-tier law firm in London, have at least 5-7 years PQE , and will have either spent some time in-house (with a family office, an asset manager or financial services firm), or have private client experience at a law firm.

This is a unique opportunity to join a lean and high-calibre team supporting a sophisticated and growing family office.

Responsibilities:

Transactional / Wealth Management

• Review, negotiate and manage legal documentation for private fund and direct investments, including LPAs, subscription agreements, side letters, co-investment and shareholder agreements.
• Coordinate with investment teams and external counsel to ensure smooth transaction execution.
• Analyse legal implications of investment structures (particularly around tax), financing arrangements, and exits across jurisdictions.

Corporate and Regulatory

• Maintain records of all corporate documentation and ensure highest standards of governance and compliance across the family’s operating and holding entities.
• Draft and review constitutional documents, board resolutions, NDAs and intra-group arrangements.
• Review, negotiate and manage a significant volume of commercial contracts including third party supplier terms, vendor contracts, consultancy agreements, etc.
• Support legal aspects of employment matters, data protection and service provider relationships.

Trusts, Foundations and Estate Structures

• Work with external advisors to maintain and review trust, foundation and holding structures used for estate, philanthropic and wealth planning purposes.
• Advise on charitable donations including grant agreements for restricted and unrestricted charitable grants.

Coordination and Advisory

• Assist the General Counsel with managing relationships with external law firms, tax advisers, fiduciaries and trustees.
• Provide timely and pragmatic advice to principals and senior team members on a wide range of legal matters.
• Support internal coordination across investments, finance, tax, HR and philanthropy functions.

This is an office-based role in the St James’s area, London.

Are you a commercially savvy lawyer with a passion for global sales and marketing? Ready to take your legal career to the next level in a dynamic, international environment?We're partnering exclusively with a leading global organisation to find a talented Legal Counsel to join their high-performing legal team. This is a rare opportunity to work at the heart of a business that's shaping its industry on a global scale - and trust me, interest is already heating up.
As the dedicated Talent Partner working directly with both the client and candidates, I'm your sole point of contact. If this piques your interest, don't delay - we're expecting significant attention and will be setting a closing date very soon.
The Role:
You'll be embedded in the global legal team, acting as a trusted advisor to commercial stakeholders across Europe and beyond. Your focus? Supporting global sales and marketing initiatives, advising on strategic projects, and ensuring legal compliance while enabling business growth.You'll be reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, leading on global marketing legal matters, and playing a key role in shaping best practices and templates across the organisation.
What We're Looking For:

• A qualified solicitor (England & Wales) with at least 2 years' post-qualification experience.
• A strong background in commercial law, ideally with exposure to global sales and marketing.
• Experience in a large law firm or in-house legal team.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with excellent stakeholder management skills.
• International experience is highly desirable - particularly if you've worked with or within US-based organisations.

Why Apply?

• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in stunning new offices in Southampton.
• A collaborative, forward-thinking global legal team.
• A business that values their legal team as a strategic partner, not just a support function.
• The chance to make a real impact on global commercial strategy.

This is more than just a legal role - it's a chance to be part of something bigger, to influence global operations, and to grow your career in a truly international setting.
Interested? Let's talk - ASAP.
I'm managing this process exclusively, and with the level of interest we're already seeing, the window to apply won't stay open for long.
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