Pensions Litigation Solicitor NQ-2 PQE

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PENSIONS LITIGATION LAWYERNQ-2 YRS PQE - LONDON/MANCHESTERMake the best start to your legal career by joining a vibrant and expanding team based in either London or Manchester (although Leeds and Birmingham will be considered), working in a challenging and rewarding area of the law.The pensions litigation team handles a wide range of litigation including professional negligence claims, sorting out errors in pension scheme documentation, advising on Pension Regulator investigations, dealing with a schemes internal dispute resolutionprocedure and handling Pension Ombudsman complaints. The teams work is often high value, high profile and complex. Our pensions litigation practice operates across our London and Manchester offices.At Pinsent Masons, you will have the advantage of being in a large international firm, but with the intimacy of being in a balanced local team that works well together. We have embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environmentin which all can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme backed with an office anywhere IT solution, which offers us all flexibility in terms of where we work. A purpose led and forward-thinking law firm which champions change, promotes progress andenables everyone to make business work better for people.What are we looking for The ideal candidate will have gained experience in pensions and/or litigation.Candidates need to combine technical excellence with strong communication skills, plenty of common sense and the ability to develop good relationships with colleagues and clients. Equally important, they should be commercially aware and should be enthusiasticabout business development, with experience of face to face client development and networking.Who will you be working withWe are first and foremost great people to work with. We have a supportive and inclusive culture we aim to make working for us professionally stimulating and enjoyable.As a pensions litigator the world is your oyster. Our pensions/pensions litigation team is award winning and highly rated with an enviable client list including PLCs, large insurers and leading benefit consultants. You will be joining a team with a greattrack record undertaking fantastic, varied and cutting edge work. There are many diverse aspects to the role and you will have the opportunity to be involved in a great variety of pensions-based litigation.Legal 500 and Chambers consistently rate us as a leading pensions team in London, the West Midlands, the North, and in Scotland and as a tier 1 pensions litigation practice in Legal 500. Incorporating a market-leading pensions litigation practice and anin-house independent trustee company, no pensions team has a greater breadth of expertise and we have successfully future-proofed our practice by extending our work into areas that are outside of the traditional comfort zone for pension lawyersexamplesof this being our high profile work for pension providers and our ground-breaking work in relation to pension fund investment in infrastructure. In addition as part of a firm with an impressive full-service capability, we are able to deal with every type ofpensions issue, no matter what other areas it may touch upon.We are an ambitious team which is continuing to grow, we have a high profile within Pinsent Masons and across the pensions market. In 2021, we won Pensions Litigation Team of the Year at the UK Pension Awards. We are the only pensions team to have won awardsfor innovation, having won FT Innovative Lawyer Awards in 2015 and 2016.Who are our key clientsUnivar UK Limited, Dalriada Trustees Limited, BT Pension Scheme, AXA, BAE Systems, BBC Pension Trust, British Airwards Pension Trustees, ExxonMobil Pension Trust, GlaxoSmithKline, Legal & General, and Tesco. We also work with 30 of UKs largest employerpension funds, including Diageo, Whitbread, British Coal, John Lewis Partnership.What do our clients think about usA combination of technical skill, fierce intellect and willingness to fight make Pinsent Masons LLPs practice unique. They are a down to earth team who focus on finding solutions and providing commercial legal input for their clients.The Pinsent Masons pensions dispute resolution team is hugely expert in this field. They seamlessly integrate wider litigation expertise with technical specialist knowledge. They are also very efficient and agile in deploying differing personnel atthe right level of seniority and cost for differing tasks.The leading firm in pensions liberation, and with it rescuing pension schemes in serious crisis/being intervened in by the Pensions Regulator.What awards have we wonPinsent 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 2019Legal Business" for the second time and won Europes 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 Stonewalls Top Global Employers 2020.A bit more about the Firm Pinsent Masons is 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.</span