Senior Commercial Attorney

Elevate is recruiting for a Senior Commercial Attorney to join our high-performing team. We provide consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms, offering practical ways to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Specifically, the Senior Commercial Attorney will
• Lead on a wide range of client projects and complex matters profitably and to a consistently high standard.
• Provide support to the Director of Legal Operations in the region as required.
• Work effectively as part of a team, to build relationships quickly and to engage effectively with internal and external client stakeholders.
• Help embed systems and processes within the team and ensure they are applied and followed to produce high quality output.
• Demonstrate leadership and take personal responsibility for promoting and role modelling the firms' values.
• Develop colleagues by mentoring/coaching, reviewing performance and helping plan their development.
• Help drive improvements in the team's performance by monitoring and reporting on performance against agreed SLAs.
• This Employment contract for a period of 6 months with potential to be extended.

Experience
• Experience in Banking Finance, Commercial Contracting, Real Estate within a law firm or in-house role.

Skills For Success
• Additional language capabilities are desirable (French, German, Spanish, Italian)
• A passion for quality, including excellent attention to detail.
• A positive, collaborative, proactive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills in English
• Ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality of client service.
• Resilience under pressure and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
• Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization.
• High levels of IT skills and competence.
• Be able to work collaboratively and communicate well with a wide variety of people within the team, and across teams and offices.

Qualifications
• Law degree

Technical Skills
• MS Office suite Read more