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    Legal Counsel

    Birmingham
    Permanent

    We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic commercial lawyer to join the NEC Group's Legal Services Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Group function and be an active part of NEC Group's ambitious growth plans.

    • Legal Counsel

    • Birmingham

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent

    My client, a recognised national public body is looking to recruit a permanent, full time Head of legal to lead a well-established legal team, based in Birmingham. The role would report into the CEO and would be to start as soon as possible.

    • Excellent opportunity to become a Head of Legal

    • Fantastic package and benefits

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  • Reading
    Permanent
    £20,000 - £24,000

    Our client a prestigious law firm based in the heart of Reading is looking for a Legal Secretary to join their Employment team.

    • We are looking for a Legal Secretary to work within a prestigious law firm

    • A mixture of Legal Administration & Events Coordination

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  • Kent
    Permanent

    Great opportunity to further your career as a legal secretary at a reputable Kent based firm. You may have a relevant qualification or the ability to showcase your experience in a residential conveyancing department.

    • Opportunity to join a reputable Kent firm!

    • Firm invested in personal development

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  • Northampton
    Permanent
    £85,000 - £90,000

    You will report into the CFO and support and advise the Senior Leadership Team. You will be responsible for developing ways of working to meet the business's evolving needs and be responsible for the end to end design, management and delivery of an effective in-house legal function.

    • Head of Legal

    • Northampton

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent
    £60,000 - £70,000

    The successful candidate will provide legal advice and support to the business line and operations based in the UK and Germany.

    • Legal Counsel

    • Solihull

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  • Coventry
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £70,000

    Legal Counsel vacancy based in Coventry.

    • Legal Counsel (Comercial)

    • Coventry

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent
    £45,000 - £60,000

    Opportunity to join well established Legal team at a successful and growing business.

    • Legal Counsel

    • Birmingham

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  • Burton-On-Trent
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £45,000

    In this role you will be responsible for supporting the UK business legal requirements with a focus on company/commercial matters also covering a wide spectrum of interesting and challenging matters.

    • In House Legal Counsel

    • Burton on Trent

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  • Norwich
    Permanent

    In House Legal Counsel vacancy based near Norwich. It is essential that you have experience of Commercial Contracts or Corporate work.

    • Legal Counsel (Commercial)

    • Based near Norwich

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  • Oxfordshire
    Permanent
    £45,000 - £55,000

    As a Commercial Lawyer your focus will be to provide high quality legal and commercial advice to all companies in the Group. You will have the opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of work, as well as to work with a diverse range of people. This is a highly visible role which will involve interacting directly with most senior management, including the CEO/CFO and other members of the Executive Committee.

    • Excellent organisation with high level legal team and work.

    • Gain broad exposure to commercial/ IT/IP/ data prot etc..

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  • East of England
    Permanent
    £70,000 - £75,000

    Michael Page Legal are recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel for one of our In-House clients. This is a permanent role, full time based in the East of England.

    • Work for a British headquatered company with a global brand

    • Variety of legal in-house work.

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  • London
    Temporary
    £50,000 - £70,000

    The Senior Legal Counsel is a key supporting role to the Commercial Director. The post holder will be responsible for managing the commercial contracts portfolio relating to the Commercial Directorate core business.

    • Be a leading commercial contracting and legal expert for an NHS Trust

    • A 6 month fixed term contract

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent

    My client, a fast growing financial services organisation based in Birmingham city centre is looking to recruit a senior legal counsel on a permanent basis, to start as soon as possible.

    • Working for the fastest growing business of it's kind in the UK

    • One of the UK's leading independent financial services organisations.

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  • Bristol
    Permanent

    As a Legal Operational Support Paralegal you will be working with talented lawyers and a wide range of clients in a fast paced environment.

    • Opportunity with a Top 50 Law Firm

    • Fanastic Progression Opportunities!

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  • Ashford
    Permanent

    Great opportunity to further your career as a legal secretary at a reputable Kent based firm. You may have a relevant qualification or the ability to showcase your experience in a residential conveyancing department.

    • Opportunity to join a reputable Kent firm!

    • Firm invested in personal development

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  • Birmingham
    Temporary

    Junior legal counsel working for an in-house global business on a 12 months fixed term contract.

    • Working with a global business

    • Great opportunity for a junior lawyer to gain in-house experience

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  • England
    Permanent
    £19,000 - £23,000

    Experienced legal secretary needed for residential conveyancing team. You'll be competent supporting fee earners within a property department and be looking to join a firm in North Kent.

    • Experienced legal secretary needed for property team!

    • You'll be confident supporting residential fee-earners.

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  • London
    Permanent
    £30,000 - £40,000

    To provide a specialist legal casework service in housing law, including litigation and to provide legal support and advice as required to the team in relation to claims for possession, ASB injunctions, disrepair, income collection, leases and contract law. Drafting legal documents in relation to claims, casework and contracts

    • Want to work in house?

    • Housing Litigation expereince and want to take the next step?

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  • England
    Permanent

    Great opportunity to further your career as a legal secretary at a reputable Kent based firm. You may have a relevant qualification or the ability to showcase your experience in a residential conveyancing department.

    • Opportunity to join a reputable Kent firm!

    • Firm invested in personal development

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  • Chippenham
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £65,000

    Junior in-house general commercial role supporting two additional in house senior lawyers.

    Busy team huge chance to learn and thrive in a nurturing environment.

    • Rapidly Expanding business and legal team

    • True development opportunity for succesfull applicant.

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  • Wolverhampton
    Permanent
    £45,000 - £60,000

    We are looking for a Legal Counsel to join this growing legal team.

    • In House Legal Counsel

    • Wolverhampton

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  • East Midlands
    Temporary

    Michael Page Legal are looking for a junior-mid level qualified legal counsel, to work with one of our in-house clients initially on an interim basis with the view to the role going permanent later this year. The start date is asap and the role will be full time, on-site, based in the East Midlands.

    • Global leading technology organisation

    • Great opportunity for a lawyer to use their Dutch language skils

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  • Nuneaton
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £50,000

    Fantastic opportunity for a Commercial Solicitor to join an established Legal team.

    We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate detailed knowledge and technical experience to deal with a broad range of commercial contracts, from general business contracts to more complex contracts.

    • In House Commercial Legal Counsel

    • Near Birmingham

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  • Nottinghamshire
    Temporary

    This role requires an experienced legal counsel with previous in-house experience dealing with a broad range of commercial contracts matters. We require someone to start as soon as possible and ideally work full time in Nottinghamshire. The duration of the requirement is initially 3-6 months with the view to extend the contract.

    • Largest organisation of it's type in the UK

    • Great role for a strong commercial lawyer

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent
    £70,000 - £100,000

    Senior Legal Counsel vacancy in Birmingham.

    • Senior Legal Counsel

    • Birmingham

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  • Bracknell
    Temporary

    The role would suit someone who has experience of most commercial contracts you would experience working in-house! It's broad and highly changeable!

    • Extremely well known brand in the manufacturing industry

    • Interesting workload, Good day rate and working in a well established legal team

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  • Wolverhampton
    Permanent
    £60,000

    Senior Legal Counsel vacancy based in Wolverhampton.

    • Senior Legal Counsel

    • Wolverhampton

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  • Norwich
    Permanent
    £60,000 - £80,000

    In House Senior Legal Counsel vacancy based near Norwich. It is essential that you have experience of Commercial Contracts or Corporate work.

    • Senior Legal Counsel

    • Based near Norwich

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000

    The opportunity offers a broad range of responsibilities and the opportunity to work on important commercial projects within the business. The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts including licence agreements, sponsorship and media agreements, IT, procurement and outsourcing contracts as well as advising on matters such as IP, data protection and competition law.

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    • Birmingham

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A guide to legal jobs

As a flagship PageGroup business, Michael Page Legal has been at the forefront of legal recruitment for more than 32 years. There are a host of fantastic legal jobs available, lawyer jobs, solicitor jobs, and paralegal jobs to name but a few.  Our size and capability means we are unique in our ability to specialise in every market we serve and find you the right role. Whether legal, compliance, company secretarial, policy, qualified or non-qualified, temporary or permanent, our consultants have a single market focus. This means that each consultant develops exceptional knowledge regarding legal jobs, their sector, region and candidate pool enabling them to offer expert advice and market insight.
 
With offices in 35 countries, we’re also able to offer job opportunities overseas to suitably qualified candidates.
 
Legal jobs cover a wide range within the business sectors and law firms are always looking for the best talent to join their legal teams. London especially has attractive employment opportunities. If you want to enter the legal sector you have a number of options. Whatever your decision, there are choices available. For example, you may be interested in becoming a solicitor, family solicitor, paralegal, litigation lawyer, legal secretary, or sales attorney.
 
If you’re interested in law and have the relevant professional experience, here are just a few of the jobs we can offer.
 

Legal jobs we recruit

  • Company / Commercial Solicitor
  • Health & Safety Solicitor
  • Family Solicitor
  • Litigation Lawyer
  • Residential Property Solicitor
  • Legal Counsel
  • Private Client Solicitors
  • EMEA Sales Attorney
     

Key legal tasks

If you enter at a junior level then your legal role would most probably require you to support and assist senior lawyers, produce legal documents, work with audio files (dictation), communicate with clients, make appointments and manage diaries. You will need to be highly computer literate, prepare court forms and statements, handle confidential information, keep records, and perform filing and general administrative work. If you enter as an experienced hire then expect to attend court hearings, draw up contracts and other legal documents. There is also a requirement to research, gather evidence and negotiate. Also settling disputes, analysing legal documents and supervising legal assistants.
 

Key legal skills

Stamina, energy and resilience. You may need to sacrifice your time, working long hours in order to get the right result for a client.
Tenacity, knowing when to keep going is a precious skill.
Adaptability to changing situations
Attention to detail especially when it comes to examining legal documents
Good communication skills are absolutely imperative to get your message across.
Intellectual ability, you have to be smart and be able to demonstrate this.
 

Qualifications and experience

If you're in the legal sector but do not have any formal qualifications then don't despair, an NVQ (Level 4) in Legal Practice will be your best option.  Relevant work experience will be beneficial when you apply for a position.
 
Paralegals and legal executives can graduate to become solicitors after a minimum five-year qualifying period, and thereafter, they become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives. This will be the case for a period of 2 years.
 
To be a solicitor or barrister, a university degree of 2:1 or above is normally expected in the law discipline. 
If you haven't got a degree in law then you will need to take the postgraduate Diploma in Law or the Common Professional Examination (CPE).