Pensions Lawyer

**PENSIONS LAWYER - NQ-2YRS PQE - BIRMINGHAM** Make the best start to your legal career by joining a vibrant and expanding legal team in the Midlands, working in a challenging and rewarding area of the law. The Midlands is a great place to live with attractions such as its own symphony orchestra, premiership football, international cricket, a Royal Ballet and great shopping. Not to mention all the great places to eat out and transport links that mean you caneasily commute from the leafy suburbs in under 30 minutes and get to London in under an hour and a quarter. You will have the advantage of being in a large international firm like Pinsents, but the intimacy of being in a balanced local team that works well together. We have embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environment in whichall can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme backed with an 'office anywhere' IT solution, which offers us all flexibility in terms of where we work. **The Team** Both nationally and locally our pensions team is highly rated with an enviable client list including PLCs and large insurers. You would be joining a team with a great track record undertaking fantastic and varied work. We are first and foremost great peopleto work with. With a large number of juniors and a supportive and inclusive culture we aim to make working for us professionally stimulating and enjoyable. As a pension lawyer the world is your oyster. There are many diverse aspects of law that you will be exposed to over your career in pensions, giving you a great variety of work and a skill set head and shoulders above contemporaries in other specialisms. As one of the largest pensions teams in a UK law firm, we have a great breadth of expertise and we have successfully future-proofed our practice by extending our work into areas that are outside of the traditional comfort zone for pension lawyers - examplesof this being our high-profile work for pension providers and master trusts, and our ground-breaking work in relation to pension fund investment in infrastructure. **We want you** Pensions is so diverse that it covers most areas of law (trust law, commercial contracts, financial regulation, employment and tax to name a few). You do not need to have previous experience in pensions to become a pensions lawyer - some of our longer standinglawyers started life in different fields (including funds, corporate M&A and employment). **About the Firm** Pinsent Masons is Purpose led. We aim to promote progress and change so that our business can work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operatean agile working scheme backed with an 'office anywhere' IT solution, which offers staff flexibility in terms of where they work. Pinsent Masons is a signatory to both the Equal Representation in Arbitration and the Greener Arbitrations pledge and international arbitration in the infrastructure and energy sectors a priority investment area for the firm. Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 staff and operating out of 26 locations across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deepunderstanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. The firm has significant international credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporateand M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technologyand tax advice. **Awards** Pinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, won the "Law Firm of the Year Award 2019 - Legal Business" for the second time and is recognised among the most innovative law firms in Europe by the FinancialTimes. Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer and is ranked No 1 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2019. **Contact details**: LI-LRAJ