Trainee Solicitor

Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Back Lane, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DP
, United Kingdom, Melbourn SG8 6DP
, GB

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA Consulting Group is seeking a trainee solicitor to join our Cambridge office. The role of Trainee Solicitor will involve all aspects of legal and commercial training in the provision of commercial legal advice to PA’s corporate and business units. These are predominantly located in the UK, Europe and US although only English law will be the basis for such training.

The Trainee Solicitor will work closely with a variety of teams and individuals within PA and will understand the link between the legal department and the business to ensure the highest quality of services and compliance is met.

Reporting to Senior Legal Counsel we can promise a wide variety of work, in a supportive and collegiate environment.

• IP and IT law
• Dispute Resolution
• Procurement processes (including public procurement)

• Confidentiality agreements
• Purchase terms and conditions

• Contract summaries and maintaining online databases and registers
• Ad hoc tasks to support other lawyers and other colleagues
• Assistance with the production and delivery of internal training

• Supporting (and eventually leading) all aspects of legal support with the business
• Assisting internal clients through the internal processes
• Minimising legal risk within the business more generally
• Assisting Procurement to negotiate successfully and within PA’s risk boundaries
• Assisting Audit with internal reviews
• Promoting best practice
  
  Retaining and filing all relevant documentation
• Delivering training to the business

Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

• Must be able to qualify either through the SQE route or the LPC route (with degree or equivalent)
• Evidence of problem‑solving ability
• Experience of customer facing roles
• Ability to deal with a wide variety of internal and external clients, with differing backgrounds (commercial, legal, academic and technical)
• Experience of working to a deadline and managing several deadlines at one time
• Ability to work with internal clients in other jurisdictions
• Ability to work alone and as part of a close‑knit team
• Ability to think creatively, to provide guidance and pragmatic solutions rather than ‘the letter of the law’
• An interest in the wider business and its ventures
• Ability to work through complex legal documentation, identifying commercial as well as legal risk
• Experience negotiating and clear writing a benefit but not essential
• The ability to pass security screening and the right to work in the UK

We know the skill‑gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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