Senior/Managing Associate – Commercial Dispute Resolution / Pensions Litigation

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior or Managing Associate to join our market-leading Commercial Dispute Resolution team in Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester. This is a permanent, full-time role, offered on a hybrid-working basis.

Our Commercial Dispute Resolution team is highly ranked in the Legal Directories, and this opportunity would see you working closely with a Legal 500 Leading Partner.

We are committed to the development and growth of our Commercial Dispute Resolution team by the appointment of a Senior or Managing Associate with specialist pensions litigation expertise. This appointment will strengthen the existing Commercial Dispute Resolution team, which operates as a national service line.

If you are looking for a role offering professional growth, exposure to an excellent client base, and strong progression prospects, this is the role for you.

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will manage your own portfolio of disputes (with Partner oversight as required) ensuring your experience is varied and broad.

Your Role

As a key addition to the existing team, day to day you will be involved with:

• Advising a broad range of clients on a variety of commercial dispute resolution matters involving litigation, arbitration and mediation
• Providing specialist pensions litigation support , developing the firm’s expertise in this area
• Collaborating closely with the Partners and wider team nationwide, as well as our national Pensions team
• Taking an active role in business development initiatives, including preparing pitches and tenders, providing training and building client relationships
• Taking an active role with supervision, development and mentoring of junior team members

Your Skills & Experience

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by technical excellence, with a willingness to embrace team working and a passion for client service. You will be able to demonstrate a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills:

• A proven Commercial Dispute Resolution background with outstanding technical ability and a genuine interest in commercial dispute resolution, with a minimum of 3 years PQE
• Ideally, a specialism in Pensions litigation and disputes including professional negligence, rectification and complex member complaints
• A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
• Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development and an appetite for keeping up to date with the latest developments
• Client focussed approach with the ability to nurture long standing relationships, both with external clients and internally
• Able to develop a deep understanding of your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
• Able to contribute to our collaborative culture, with an ambition to assist in the development of junior team members (proven experience of supervising and/or managing junior team members is desirable)
• The drive and ambition to succeed as a key senior component of the team at TLT, with the commitment to developing the firm’s offering locally and nationally

Your Team

Commercial disputes are an inevitable part of business life and resolving these issues efficiently is fundamental to commercial success. Our team is experienced in providing practical, commercial solutions ranging from advice in the first stages of a disagreement through to court proceedings and enforcement. Alternative dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration is also a major part of our work.

We work with a wide range of businesses from plcs, public bodies and international companies to owner-managed businesses and non-profit organisations. We offer genuine industry knowledge to clients spanning a variety of sectors. We regularly act in significant, high value contractual disputes, negligence claims, pensions disputes, contractual interpretation, retention of title disputes, sale of goods and services disputes, and misrepresentation claims, as well as large debt claims and insolvency-related issues.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.

In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.