Job Description
Commercial Solicitor (4-6 PQE)
Location: Hybrid working with office time based in Cambridge or London
Salary: £65,000 - £78,000
Position: Permanent, full time
Closing date: 16th December 2024
We're hiring!
We are looking for a 4-6 PQE commercial contracts and soft IP solicitor to join our Commercial practice.
Our Commercial team:
* Currently a team of 5, looking to be a team of 6.
* Not so secret law geeks with genuine enthusiasm for the areas we practice in.
* Senior lawyers with a lot of experience, both private practice and in-house. Junior lawyers with a lot of talent.
* Varied and interesting workload, including general commercial and contract advice, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, soft IP advice, and providing in-house support.
* Clients range from household names to SMEs and start-ups across a range of sectors.
We are expanding the practice and we are now looking for someone to fill a mid-level role in the team.
Essential skills and experience:
* 4-6 years PQE as a qualified solicitor admitted in England and Wales.
* In-house experience (permanent or secondment) valued.
* Majority of post qualified experience being in commercial contract and advisory work (non-contentious).
* Good working knowledge of (and enthusiasm for!) soft IP.
* Strong analytical and communication skills.
* Excellence in drafting, negotiating, and working with clients.
* Ability to apply a commercial approach to advice.
* Team player. Supporting each other is the foundation of our team.
Working at Stobbs:
* Firm culture is important at Stobbs; we are friendly, social, approachable and we look after each other.
* We value spending time together and regularly provide our own social and professional events.
* We manage the rights of some fantastic clients - our advice has to be legally sound and business savvy.
* We lift each other up and we have each other's backs.
* We're not run with an iron fist; we want our people to bring their whole selves to work.
Stobbs info:
Stobbs is a niche intellectual property practice that recognises the need for a strategic and holistic approach to provide the best advice on brands. We have a breadth of capability that encompasses trade marks, designs and copyright, litigation, disputes, commercial contracts, brand intelligence, brand extension (licensing), systems, online brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and brand restructuring.
Our current hybrid working policy is a minimum requirement of two days in the office, encouraging people in more if possible. We may ask you to be based in the office a bit more during the first six months to help settle you in and integrate you into the team.
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