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Legal Counsel or Experienced Paralegal
- Type: Permanent, Full Time
- Location: Gloucestershire/Hybrid
Are you a qualified solicitor, legal executive or experienced paralegal with a knack for providing commercially astute legal advice? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your expertise in contracts, company law, intellectual property, and procurement can make a real impact? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Job Purpose: You will support our client by delivering timely, outcomes-focused legal advice. You will work closely with the legal & governance teams to ensure robust and pragmatic legal solutions.
Key Accountabilities:
- Legal Risk Management: Identify and mitigate legal risks within the company.
- Contract Management: Prepare, negotiate, draft, revise, and finalize various contract documents.
- Commercial and Procurement Advice: Provide guidance on non-contentious contract, commercial, and procurement issues, including NDAs.
- Intellectual Property: Advise on intellectual property matters and support external advisers managing the trademark portfolio.
- Information Governance: Assist the Information Governance team with data governance and FOI matters.
- Liability and Insurance: Advise on matters relating to liability, including company insurance.
- Commercial Activities: Support commercial activities such as prize draws, gambling, Advertising Standards, Equality Impact Assessments, and complaint escalations.
- Corporate Legal Precedents: Develop and maintain corporate legal precedents.
- Training: Prepare and deliver training in legal matters across the business.
- External Counsel Management: Collaborate with the Head of Legal and Governance to instruct and manage external counsel and third parties.
Skills, Qualifications, and Experience:
- Qualified solicitor or legal executive with a proven track record in drafting and advising on commercial contracts and procurement.
- Experience in identifying and managing legal risk across a diverse legal portfolio.
- Ideally, experience in an in-house environment.
- Strong technical skills and attention to detail, particularly in contractual matters.
- Team player with a positive and proactive approach, focused on outcomes.
- Can-do attitude and willingness to work flexibly with colleagues of differing skills and experience.
- Approachable and able to present legal advice in a plain and concise manner.
For more details about this position and to discuss your background please contact Sophie Clarke at Reed (on Linkedin) today!
