Associate - Corporate Dispute Resolution

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 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

**Hours**: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

**Team**: Corporate Dispute Resolution

**Location**:Manchester

**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:

- Annual leave starting at 25 days
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
- Annual fitness allowance
- Flexible pension scheme
- ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
- 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
- Group income protection
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment

**Role overview**
- Introduction to the role:_
- Introduction to the team:_

The Commercial Dispute Resolution team in Manchester covers a wide breadth of commercial litigation and arbitration work.

Individually we all have a broad range of experience across both general Commercial dispute work and various individuals in the team also carry out more specialist work, including in relation to tech and IP disputes. We have monthly team meetings, annual and ad hoc social events, training and BD related planning activities.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Client liaison in person, in writing and over the telephone
- Communicate with clients, litigants in person, solicitors, counsel, courts and all other interested parties
- Drafting and proofing documents
- Instructing Counsel and experts
- Preparation of reports to clients
- Negotiation
- Business development including preparation of articles and insights
- Undertake appropriate additional tasks provided by the other members of the team
- May be asked to go on secondment to support our client relationships

**What are we looking for**:

- Important criteria:_
- Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
- A real interest in and enthusiasm for Commercial Litigation
- Experience of and an interest in both general Commercial Litigation Disputes
- Able to work as a team player assisting across the team as well as being able to work independently
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships internally and externally
- Hard working and professional
- Demonstrates an understanding of clients’ needs/expectations to meet client protocols/agreed service levels
- Excellent organisational and time management skills including ability to plan and prioritise work appropriately so that deadlines are met
- Excellent attention to detail
- Adheres to guidelines, procedures and ethics
- Demonstrates the firm’s values
- It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following skills:_
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: contract disputes warranty claims shareholder disputes professional negligence claims fraud. IP and tech disputes
- Record of contributing to team business development and developing internal and external relationships to generate opportunities.**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