Associate/senior Associate/legal Director

5 months ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Hill Dickinson LLP Full time

**Term**:

- Permanent**Department**:

- Education**Location**:

- Flexible**The Firm**

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 950 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

**Job role**:Associate / Senior Associate / Legal Director

**Hours**:37.5 hours a week FTE

As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

**Department**:Education

**Location**:Flexible - Liverpool/Manchester/Newcastle or Leeds offices.

**Benefits**:At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

- 25 days’ annual leave (increasing with role)
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment

**Role overview**

**Introduction to the role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our successful and rapidly growing Education team.

The role offers the opportunity to work alongside Luke Green and Joe Orme-Paul who have developed our leading education practice with clients across the sector including schools, further education institutions and universities with a national reach.

You will be given plenty of client responsibility and exposure but at the same time be part of a supportive team environment.

**Introduction to the team**:
Our dedicated team of lawyer’s support a range of educational institutions with on various of regulatory and compliance issues. The Education team sits alongside our Employment practice with strong collaboration between lawyers to deliver client service excellence and a complete package of essential legal services.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Advising on the requirements of equality law, particularly in the context of special educational needs and Children and Families Act 2014 regime
- Supporting clients with complaints, process management and outcomes
- Advice and support on decisions to exclude pupils/students, process and outcome
- Admissions advice including oversubscription criteria development, local disputes and representations before the Schools Adjudicator
- Providing advice and support on Freedom of Information and Data Protection requests
- Governance advice for maintained schools and academy trusts, including drafting documents and liaising with the Department for Education
- Commercial Contract reviews and advices
- Academy transactional work

**What we are looking for**
- Law degree (or equivalent).
- Demonstrable experience in supporting an employment commercial team.
- The ability and experience of managing a caseload providing sound commercial advice.
- Transactional support experience.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- The ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Adheres to guidelines and procedures.
- An understanding of clients’ needs and expectations.
- Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours, if required.

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

**Disability Support**

**Values**

**Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration

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