SeniorManaging Associate - Commercial Litigation

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Associate or Managing Associate to join our Commercial Litigation department working alongside Jan Levinson and the wider team. Based from our Manchester office this is an excellent opportunity to work with household name clients as part of an ambitious team.

What you will do

You will have a varied and complex commercial litigation caseload with the exciting opportunity to have exposure to sport defamation privacy data and tech disputes. You will be advising clients of varying size and complexity and working with inhouse legal teams acting for clients in both claimant and defendant roles.

We will actively support and encourage you to engage in profile building and networking activities from the outset. Our client relationships are incredibly important to us and you will be encouraged to develop strong and lasting professional relationships with new and existing clients and gain the insights and expertise needed to offer hands on practical advice to them on an ongoing basis.

What were looking for

With at least 5 years experience postqualification you will have gained a strong grounding in general Commercial Litigation work and are accustomed to running your own complex caseload.

• You will be highly motivated and keen to progress and develop your career.
• Enthusiastic to expand your profile and networks.
• Ambitious and adaptable you will have begun to create a presence in your local networks and actively involved in business development enhancing your own profile along with that of our firm.
• Youll be accustomed to being challenged working to tight deadlines and delivering the highest quality of service to highly valued clients whilst maintain an approachable team orientated style.

With your level of experience you will be supporting the development of junior fee earners in your current role and be positive and approachable in doing so. We consider ourselves to be a high performing welcoming and inclusive team and your firstclass communication skills will enable you to become a key member gaining the trust of a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. In this role you will have exceptional opportunities to develop strong and lasting client relationships and you will be personally motivated and enthusiastic about this prospect with a view to building or extending your profile in this complex and challenging area of law.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour along with 28 days annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month) private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this you can make ongoing or oneoff donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with communitybased initiatives (as a team or individually) twice a year to give something back where you feel it matters.

For further details of our benefits packages please visit the link attached Our benefits Foot Anstey

Successful applicants will be required to complete a preemployment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this or anything else please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team:

Why Foot Anstey

As one of the UKs fastest growing law firms Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients most trusted advisor we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day and because of this we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history weve grown from a highstreet firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity Retail & Consumer Energy & Infrastructure Islamic Finance Developers Private Wealth and Charities. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients needs investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from eight locations: Manchester London Bristol Southampton Exeter Plymouth Truro and Taunton as well as hub bases in Oxford and Guildford.

Our people are central to our success in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forwardthinking we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies with over 40 of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies its something we consider across everything we do from the makeup of our client teams encouraging staff to reach their potential through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals regardless of background gender race beliefs sexuality or other nonwork related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.