A new opening has been created for a Senior Commercial/Technology Lawyer to join this global law firm as an In-House Lawyer. The role could be based in a number of locations including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester or Leeds and also offers hybrid working.
This sits within the Group Commercial Legal Services team which is part of the General Counsel's Office and is a permanent appointment.
Some responsibilities will include:
* Providing commercial contracting support to the firm in relation to its strategic commercial activities and projects.
* Assisting with the design and delivery, development and negotiation of client facing agreements and commercial schedules.
* Drafting standard agreements and templates in relation to the firm’s development of new client facing products, offerings and solutions
* Drafting any specific provisions for inclusion in standard letters of engagement and drafting standard or bespoke end user licence agreements, for use where individuals will be accessing and/ or using any third party technologies.
* Supporting on contracts with third party partners, service and solutions providers, third party law firms or legal service providers, ensuring compliance with the firm’s global risk policies.
* Providing commercial contracting support for non-standard commercial contracts for example:
* client panel terms relating exclusively to the provision of services or solutions by adjacent professional services or solutions teams;
* complex client agreements, including where such agreements are based on client generated terms; and
* complex agreements with third parties, including where such agreements are based on third party generated terms.
The successful candidate will have some of the following:
* Qualified solicitor with 7 years’ post-qualification experience
* Significant experience of reviewing commercial client agreements
* Experience dealing with technology and AI related contracts, including experience of issues relating to intellectual property rights, data protection, confidentiality and information security.
* Experience of having worked on contracts relating to licensing, software as a service, platform as a service, managed services, agency arrangements, subcontracting and white labelling would be beneficial.
To find out more, please contact Jill Cowan on 07931 811 330 or email jill@lusona.co.uk