Senior Lawyer

🕒 July 23

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Dentons

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📋 Compliance

Consulting • Legal • Compliance

Dentons is the world's largest global law firm, offering a wide range of legal services through its member firms and affiliates across more than 160 locations worldwide. Dentons focuses on helping clients grow, protect, operate, and finance their businesses by providing comprehensive global solutions, insights, and legal expertise. The firm is recognized for its strength in sectors such as mergers and acquisitions, tax advisory, anti-bribery and corruption law, and legal management of data centers, among others. Its commitment to supporting international projects, such as the transformation and rebuild of Ukraine, demonstrates its global impact and ambition. Dentons also emphasizes knowledge sharing through webinars and thought leadership initiatives, targeting challenges and opportunities in the legal profession for general counsels and in-house legal teams.

📋 Description

• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements • Provide clear, practical and proportionate legal advice aligned with each client’s commercial objectives and risk appetite • Take ownership of matters from instruction through to completion • Identify key legal and commercial issues, manage deadlines and escalate appropriately • Work across different clients, sectors, stakeholders, playbooks and delivery models • Build an understanding of each client’s business, priorities and ways of working • Prioritise competing matters and communicate proactively about deadlines and expectations • Use agreed templates, playbooks, workflows and escalation processes consistently • Capture matter and performance data accurately for reporting, visibility and continuous improvement • Use legal technology, AI and automation tools appropriately and in line with policies and professional obligations • Identify opportunities to improve templates, processes, workflows and ways of working • Share knowledge and collaborate with Helix colleagues, Commercial and TMT practices, legal operations specialists and client teams • Contribute to a collaborative, output-focused team while working with a high degree of independence

🎯 Requirements

• Qualification as a lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction, with experience appropriate to the role • Substantive capability in drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements • Ownership of matters from instruction through to completion • Track record of providing practical, proportionate and commercially focused advice • Effective management of multiple live matters and competing deadlines • Direct engagement with clients or senior business stakeholders • Confidence working within templates, playbooks and agreed escalation frameworks • Strong drafting and communication skills, including explaining legal issues clearly to non-lawyers • Sound judgement, including knowing when to work independently and when to escalate • Adaptability across different clients, stakeholders and ways of working • Collaborative approach to knowledge sharing and supporting colleagues • Constructive response to feedback and changing priorities • Practical use of digital tools to support legal delivery • Desirable: knowledge of technology, outsourcing, SaaS, supplier, procurement, data or IP-related agreements • Desirable: in-house, secondment or managed legal services background • Desirable: practical use of legal technology, generative AI, automation or workflow tools • Desirable: contribution to improving templates, playbooks, processes or ways of working • Desirable: collaboration with legal operations, technology, project management or data specialists • Desirable: responsibility for supporting or supervising less experienced colleagues

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements • Equal opportunities and inclusive culture • Disability Confident Scheme and interview consideration for disabled applicants meeting minimum criteria • Application adjustments or support treated in confidence