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This role will suit a Newly Qualified Solicitor or a Paralegal with a strong academic background and experience of handling a broad and varied civil litigation and dispute resolution case load. The successful applicant will work full time assisting the Head of Dispute Resolution & Litigation in a busy department. They must be excellent at time management, have good drafting, communication and IT skills, show attention to detail, the ability to undertake research, communicate with clients and others, provide pragmatic and commercial advice, draft legal documents and correspondence, and be willing to attend networking events and assist in continuing to build the department.

Job Type: Permanent, Full time
Location: Grasscroft, Saddleworth (although you may also be required to attend court, home visits or our Uppermill offices from time to time)
Salary: Negotiable depending upon experience
Reports to: Head of Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Job Purpose: To assist the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Department working both autonomously and as part of a team to manage the current case load and to continue to build the department

Key objectives
Award winning firm seeking a Newly Qualified Solicitor or Paralegal on a full-time basis.

The Firm
We are a dynamic and award-winning multi-office practice which provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the UK. Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programs and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern fresh approach, we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. We are enjoying continuous success and continuous growth and are highly regarded within the legal market. We offer great career prospects and a competitive salary and are now seeking a Newly Qualified Solicitor or Paralegal to work in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation Department to assist with the substantial current case load and increase in instructions.

Key Responsibilities
1. To assist with current case load and build own case load in thriving Dispute Resolution and Litigation Department, including building relationships with clients and contacts.
2. To undertake varying administrative tasks and assist in the smooth running of the department.
3. To use initiative to draft, review and advise on correspondence and to draft correspondence, court documents and settlement agreements.
4. To take and make calls to clients, opponents and other third parties including other professionals and provide information, advice and updates as requested and directed.
5. To negotiate successfully and tactfully based on the client’s goals and legal, commercial and practical considerations.
6. To attend client meetings to take instructions, review documentation and provide advice.
7. To prepare court bundles, including using software, and copy documents where required.
8. To attend court to conduct hearings and sit behind counsel as and when necessary, and to attend home visits when required.
9. To work autonomously when appropriate and as part of a team.

Person specification essential skills and qualifications
• Strong academic record and experience of undertaking broad and varied civil litigation and dispute resolution case load.
• The ability to work on your own and as part of a team.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Excellent organisation, presentation and communication skills.
• Good professional connections and a desire and willingness to network.

Personal attributes
• Be reliable and diligent with good attention to detail.
• Self-motivation to work independently and as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• A positive approach to working under pressure in a busy environment.
• A full driving licence.

Staff Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Additional days leave for your birthday each year
• Death in service policy based on 4 times salary

Please contact Richard M. Dobson-Mason with your CV by email to richard@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk

Corporate/Commercial Solicitor 5 yr. PQE and over

This role will suit a qualified Solicitor with around five years PQE and a proven track record of handling a corporate/commercial case load with a focus on M&A transactions, share buy-backs, management buyouts, and group re-organisations. This will include handling documents lists and virtual data room platform (Thomson Reuters or similar), assisting in the due diligence exercise and Share Purchase Agreement negotiation and disclosure and security release documents, Business Asset disposals and acquisitions, share restructuring and drafting corporate governance documentation including articles of association, shareholder agreements and company filing, commercial drafting and negotiation, and providing general commercial advice to companies, partnerships and sole traders. The applicant will have confidence in closing a transaction.

You must also be willing to attend networking events, and be prepared to be client engaging and to nurture existing connections as well as build local connections.

Job Type: Permanent, Full time
Location: Grasscroft, Saddleworth with flexible remote working when agreed
Salary: Negotiable depending upon experience
Reports to: Director/James O’Donnell
Enhanced benefits: Pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, discretionary bonus scheme, mobile phone and lap top

Job Purpose: To work as a fee earner in the commercial/corporate team working both autonomously and as part of a team to manage current case-load and to build and manage own case load and to assist the commercial team on larger transactional matters across various sectors.

Key objectives
Award winning firm seeking a Corporate/Commercial solicitor on a full-time basis.

The Firm
We are a dynamic and award-winning multi-office practice which provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the UK. Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programs and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern fresh approach, we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. We are enjoying continuous success and continuous growth and are highly regarded within the legal market. We would offer great career prospects and a competitive salary and are now seeking an Assistant in the Commercial Department due to a substantial increase in instructions.

Key Responsibilities
1. To assist and build own case load in a thriving commercial/corporate department including taking instructions on new enquiries and providing advice and handling cases autonomously and as part of a team on the larger transactions.
2. To build relationships with clients and internal and external contacts on behalf of the Team.
3. To use initiative to prepare contracts, correspondence and legal documents using Case Management including use of Practical Law.
4. Work autonomously on transactional matters from start to end as well as part of a team.

Person specification essential skills and qualifications

1. Strong academic record.
2. The ability to work on your own and as part of a team.
3. Excellent IT skills including use of virtual data room technology.
4. Excellent organisation, presentation and communication skills.
5. To have good professional connections and a desire to network.

Personal attributes
1. Be reliable and diligent with good attention to detail.
2. Self-motivation to work independently and as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.
3. Good interpersonal skills.
4. A positive approach to working under pressure in a busy environment.

Staff Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Additional days leave for your birthday each year
• Death in service policy based on 4 times salary

Please contact Rebecca O’Donnell with your CV at rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk

We are currently looking for an ambitious and driven Employment Litigation Solicitor to join our award-winning team to head, nurture and grow the Employment Department in a role focussing on HR and Employment Law advice and Dispute Resolution.

This role will focus on dealing with both employers and employees in potential claims both at ACAS stage and through to disposal in the Employment Tribunal acting for both Applicant and Respondent. The candidate will have experience of negotiation through commercial settlement, dealing with Settlement of Claims both through ACAS and Settlement Agreements, able to quantify a potential claim, issuing and defending proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, instructing counsel where necessary, dealing with interim hearings and seeing matters through to full disposal at trial. The candidate will also have experience of drafting contracts of employment, Service Agreements and HR documents and advising employees and employers at early disciplinary stages as to due process.  The role will involve handling matters autonomously and assisting the Commercial Litigation and Corporate teams both in relation to Employment Aspects including Due Diligence on Merger and Acquisition and TUPE.

This is a unique opportunity to join our award-winning firm in a senior role with an opportunity to develop the department and with a clear pathway and career progression.

You will be an ambitious individual with good academics. You will be an excellent communicator who is able to interact and build business relationships at all levels. You will have a keen sense of commercial awareness, excellent communication skills, good command over legal and technical principles and the ability to present facts, law and strategies in a reasoned and persuasive manner both to opposition and to clients.

Staff Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Additional days leave for your birthday each year
• Death in service policy based on 4 times salary

Please contact James O’Donnell/Richard Dobson Mason and Rebecca O’Donnell to discuss the role in more detail or apply for the vacancy with immediate consideration by submitting your CV to james@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; richard@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk

Please see our website www.odonnellsolicitors.co.uk for more information about our Employment Litigation services.