Shipping Litigator

Private Practice

Newcastle

Permanent ⁄ £50000 - £65000

Updated January 28, 2012

We act for ship owners, charterers and operators, together with their insurers. Whilst several members of the team have sea-going experience, others have commercial experience gained in banks, insurance and oil trading so as well as shipping claims we also handle commercial and finance work. Increasingly, we are involved in the business of logistics and multi-modal transport. From our based in Europe we provide worldwide coverage for our European and global shipping clients.

The team offers a full-service maritime law practice covering the full range of contentious (Admiralty and dry) and non-contentious shipping work and we are looking to recruit to cover primarily the wet area of the practice.

The role will be to bring wet shipping experience to the team in order to service clients on a full service basis. However, the role is not exclusively "wet" and an ability to cover "dry" work and/or casualty investigation work is important. The team is focussed to an extent on oil & gas clients and developing of this work is important. An ability to supervise work amongst the junior members of the team is important.

Who we're looking for
You will be a Solicitor who has experience of Shipping work. The successful candidate will have experience of wet/admiralty work however will be expected to provide general support to the Shipping team which will involve dry contentious shipping work.

About our client
Leading national law firm

What's on offer
Market rate

Michael Page Contact
For further info, apply or phone on +44 (0) 113 2437730. Job Ref: 13098156
Your application will be sent to Mike Smith (Legal).

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