Environmental Lawyer

About the Role:

We are seeking a qualified lawyer with upwards of 7 years PQE to join our Environment Team, focusing on Climate & Sustainability practice. The successful candidate will be based within our existing market-leading Environment Team, ideally in any of our London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Aberdeen offices.

About the Team:

Our Environment Team sits within our market-leading Planning & Environment team, the largest dedicated Planning and Environment team in the UK. We cover the full range of environmental law and advise on natural capital, climate change, and sustainability matters, including:

• Net zero, carbon, biodiversity, and natural capital advice, including nature-based solutions, offsetting, and EU/UK ETS compliance;
• Environmental aspects of major infrastructure consenting and development, including onshore & offshore renewables, carbon capture & storage, new water resources, and climate change resilience projects;
• Regulatory advice, advising on remediation liability, nuclear regulation, water licensing, waste management, environmental permitting, extended producer responsibility, F-Gas, WEEE, etc.

About the Candidate:

The successful candidate will have a strong academic background and ideally have gained experience working in a large regional or national practice with an understanding of the levels of service delivery required. They will be a team player, have strong client and work handling experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and a drive to get involved in new and innovative areas of law and advisory work.

What We Offer:

• We are a market-leading, dynamic, and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, monthly 121s, career discussions, and biannual appraisals.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

About Us:

Pinsent Masons values diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain, and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates.