Disputes Associate, Newcastle

Job Description

Practice Group / Department: Legal Services Management - Newcastle Job Description Were Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. As well as the relevant skills and experience, werelooking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realizetheir full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion. Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work fromboth the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s healthand overall wellbeing. The Newcastle OfficeWhat started in April 2016 as a small group of paralegals working on corporate due diligence, now has close to 300 permanent staff across 19 teams and 10 departments, making it the second largest office in EMEA. These teams are changing the way we deliverlegal and business services to our clients both internally and externally. The Newcastle Office houses a wide variety of teams including Legal (qualified lawyers, paralegals and claims experts); Innovation, Design & Technology specialists; Knowledge; and afull range of Business Services teams.The Newcastle Office is a core part of the firms global change and innovation programme, NRF Transform, and promotes a culture of continuous improvement. This encourages innovation and is setting the bar, in terms of what is possible in legal service delivery,and adjacent services.Legal Services Team:The Newcastle Office is home to our Legal Services Team, which is staffed by associates and paralegals.Associates in the Legal Services Team initially work in an agile manner for one of the three practice groups (Banking, Corporate and Disputes), before specialising further and becoming directly aligned to a specific team within a practice group.The Role:With 1200 lawyers globally we have one of largest disputes practices in the world. We resolve domestic and cross-border mandates, international arbitrations and investigations and enforcement for clients across all key industry sectors including financialinstitutions, energy, infrastructure, mining and commodities, transport, technology and innovation and life sciences and healthcare. We advise many of the world’s largest corporations and financial institutions on complex, high-value and sensitive multijurisdictionaldisputes, providing practical, creative legal advice that focuses on their strategic and commercial objectives.Our services include the full spectrum of dispute resolution and litigation mechanisms ranging from negotiation, mediation, conciliation and conflict resolution to vigorous courtroom strategy, multi-party and class action lawsuits and appellate proceedings.We have acted on some of the world’s highest profile domestic and multijurisdictional investigations, including high-profile regulatory inquiries, regulatory enforcement, criminal investigations and prosecutions, and related civil disputes and litigation.Our team in the UK plays a key role in our unique offering of our on the ground strength, advising clients on disputes issues across both the emerging and mature markets.We have been recognised globally by the leading legal directories for our work in this space:

• Chambers UK, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers and Partners 2021
• Legal 500, UK, Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, The Legal 500 2021
• Legal 500 UK, London: Commercial Litigation, The Legal 500, 2021
• Chambers UK, London: Commercial and Corporate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2020
• Chambers UK, London: Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2020
• Chambers Europe, UK: Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2020
• Chambers Global, UK: Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2020

We are looking for a disputes associate to join an established practice group at an exciting time. We would expect you to have plenty of opportunities to work on a diverse range of cross-border instructions and with a number of different partners acrossthe various teams in the Disputes practice group. We are looking for individuals who will form strong working relationships across different teams and will relish the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary environment, managing a diverse workload.The role will focus on contentious work across a range of sectors including domestic, international and cross border matters and will involve a high level of responsibility for day to day management of contentious matters, aiding in the management and supervisionof junior colleagues and reporting to supervising partners. In addition, the role will involve maintaining a close working relationship with and supporting our award winning banking and corporate practices on a range of matters. You will also be expected toexcel in familiarisation with the firms change and innovation programme, Transform, in order to be able to leverage legal tech and alternative resource at every opportunity.Skills and Experience Required:

• Qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales (although candidates with experience in certain other jurisdictions will also be considered)
• Experience acting for commercial clients in contentious matters encompassing domestic, international and cross-border issues
• Experience of a wide range of dispute resolution methods including litigation, international arbitration, adjudication and major forms of ADR
• Experience of preparing submissions and evidence and working with experts and counsel
• Experience of leading on large scale disclosures
• Excellent legal research skills
• Strong academic record
• Proactive and self-starting individual with an international outlook
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong commercial awareness along with a commercial, pragmatic and problem-solving approach
• A flexible approach to work and open to working across multi-disciplinary teams

Benefits: Diversity of experience