Pensions Solicitor/associate

**PENSIONS - NQ - 7yrs PQE** **EDINBURGH / GLASGOW** **Brief** We are looking to recruit a Pensions Lawyer who is Newly Qualified - 7yrs PQE to join the Edinburgh/Glasgow pensions team which is top ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories. **The Pensions Team** Our pensions team in Scotland consists of three partners, Ian Gordon, Ruth Tobias and Cameron McCulloch, legal director Alison Shackleton, and three other lawyers. Our strength in the pensions field is reflected in an extensive list of clients, which includestrustees, employers and funds. We are unique in providing a pensions practice which is arranged into a series of client service lines, to help bring a clearer focus to our work, and allow members of the team to develop their skills and increase their experience in particular areas. **About The Firm** Pinsent Masons is a progressive law firm, which promotes progress and change, so that our business works well for our people. We have embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our 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. We are 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 deep understandingof 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. - ideally have gained experience in the pensions department of a City firm or large regional practice, and already have a good level of knowledge and experience of pensions law. - be a team player, able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment; - be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment; - have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop effective working relationships with clients, market contacts and the wider firm **What will we offer you?** - 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, regular career discussions, and annual appraisals. The quality and depth of our training reflects our position as a market leader. Our training will assist you to developas a pensions specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver high quality services. - Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships. - A competitive salary package, including a generous bonus scheme. **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 won 'Europe’s Most Innovative Law at the Financial Times Innovative LawyerAwards Europe 2020. Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer and is ranked No 4 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2020 and named Stonewall’s Top Global Employers 2020. **_Contact details: _