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Construction and Engineering Lawyer

Employer
Burges Salmon LLP
Location
Bristol (City Centre), City of Bristol (GB)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
4 Dec 2019

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Vacancy Type
Solicitors, Private Practice
Experience Level
Junior Level
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Practice Areas
Construction

Job Details

Realise Your Potential
When you join Burges Salmon, you will be at the forefront of a market-leading team at an exciting time of expansion. You will benefit from the guidance, support and expertise of an award-winning Leadership team.
We will provide you with a collaborative, friendly and sociable setting in which to thrive and realise your potential. We place great importance on professional development with a structured path to help our lawyers to advance their career.

Investors in People Gold Standard
The team

Our construction and engineering team is ranked Band 1, National Leader; we have "considerable expertise in both contentious and non-contentious matters." and according to one observer is ‘as good as any magic circle firm’. Four of our lawyers have individual rankings. (Chambers 2020).

Our widely respected team is one of the largest dedicated construction teams in the UK, with offices in London, Edinburgh and Bristol and a strong profile in the transport, infrastructure, energy and real estate sectors. The team is in a growth cycle reflecting the success of the team and the wider firm in key sectors.

Construction & Engineering Team

Work

We specialise in strategic projects and complex dispute resolution. With a strong UK-wide presence, clients include central and local government, utilities, developers, funder and investors, Tier 1 contractors as well as end-users. Clients include:

Affinity Water // Costain // RBS // EDF // The Crown Estate // Equitix // Highways England // Investec Bank // Transport for London

The range of work continues to grow and includes:

⦁ Energy Infrastructure
⦁ Transport Infrastructure
⦁ Regeneration and commercial development and
⦁ Dispute avoidance and resolution.

We are working on projects such as: the Thames Tideway Tunnel, HS2, nuclear new build, The O2, M4 and Filton Airport development.

Requirements
You will be an ambitious solutions-focused individual with an interest in the built environment keen to develop your knowledge and skills across a variety of project-types and sectors in what is a fast changing landscape for construction and infrastructure. You will have strong commercial and legal potential and an ability to adapt to meet the needs of the wide variety of matters you will experience at Burges Salmon. You will also have recent and relevant work experience of advising on construction and engineering projects and a desire to join and contribute to a highly capable, motivated and collaborative team.

We are committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working patterns and office location.

We are also interested in candidates who are Scottish qualified. The firm will support and fund successful candidates to become dual qualified (if not already English law qualified), including study leave and exam hotel expenses.

Get in touch!

For a confidential conversation to find out more call Victoria Lewton on 0117 307 6942.

To apply, please visit our website at www.burges-salmon.com/careers.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Company

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.

Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.

Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.

Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.

We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment.  The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.

Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.

Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.

Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.

We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment.  The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Company info
Website
Telephone
(0117) 939 2000
Location
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
Avon
BS2 0ZX
GB

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