Elevate Flexible Legal Resourcing is looking for a Commercial Lawyer to cover a contract role for 12 to 24 months, with an immediate start. The candidate must be a qualified solicitor holding a current practicing certificate in England and Wales, with a minimum of 2 years of post-qualification experience (PQE). Experience in advising on business-to-business (B2B) contracts, including interpretation and drafting, is essential. Mainly to support product migration projects.
Key responsibilities:
* Provide advice on feasibility of migration and service termination and withdrawal proposals made by the project team. The advice will be based on reviews of contracts, including product terms and conditions, specific customer contracts, and government framework contracts, for pertinent provisions and contractual considerations as appropriate to the project proposals.
* Support marketing and communications teams with review and drafting of customer communications, and providing input based on outcome of first point.
* Draft additional terms, contractual notices and amendments, both templates to be used by contract management teams, and customer-specific
* Provide ad hoc contract and legal interpretation support to Contract Management team.
* Provide ad hoc support to Sales and Account Managers with specific customer queries relating to contracts and notices as the project progresses.
* Work with specialist areas within Legal & Regulatory to ensure coordinated advice, including with Regulatory and Competition legal teams, and other areas such as privacy.
* Will need to be able to work and manage time independently, and collaborate and provide advice to the wider project and business teams (including programme managers, product managers and commercial teams).
About Elevate
Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.
ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.
Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.
Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.
As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.