Commercial Lawyer Job Description

Job Summary-Commercial Lawyer Job Description

Provides commercial legal advice across the organisation

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Key Responsibilities Commercial Lawyer Job Description

• Provides accurate, timely, practical and commercially focused legal advice to clients.

• Works unsupervised and conducts a general caseload, referring upwards as required.

• Drafts and reviews legal analysis, submissions to the Board and other legal

documentation.

• Supervises the work of more junior members of the legal team, overseeing complex matters as required.

• Provides expert legal support to major projects.

• Undertakes policy and advocacy work, including preparing and coordinating submissions on

areas of law or policy that affect the company.

• Supports dispute resolution processes and strategies.

• Maintains a comprehensive knowledge of recent legal and policy developments in a specific

area of law, and ensures that clients are aware of implications.

• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures and relevant legislation and regulation.

• Supports training and knowledge management activities.

• Works collaboratively with colleagues in the team and across the comapny.

• Assists colleagues on legal matters, including planning, organising and managing of work activities across service/department.

Knowledge, skills, training and experience-Commercial Lawyer Job Description

Essential

• Fully qualified lawyer with commercial transactional experience gained within a leading law firm and/or in-house team.

• Proven track record of handling large, complex transactions and extensive experience of Contract and Commercial law.

• Extensive experience of advising on and leading the legal workstream on major supplier relationships/ commercial transactions/ procurement processes including providing legal support to all stages of the contract life cycle.

• Commercially aware with an understanding of the issues affecting the industry generally.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clarify complex issues and concepts for non-lawyers.

• Ability to work supportively as a team member and to build and manage relationships at all levels.

• Ability to analyse and problem solve under pressure, delivering proactive, expert, timely and authoritative legal advice and support to stakeholders

• Exceptional drafting and negotiation skills

• Shows initiative, commitment and flexibility when faced with obstacles.

• Motivated to learn and open to constructive feedback.

• Computer literate with skills across a range of IT packages.

Desirable

• Previous experience of corporate matters – particularly advising on joint ventures and

corporate governance.

• Previous experience of technology supply and contracting – particularly advising on IT

outsourcing, supply of IT systems, cyber security, data protection, software licensing and cloud computing.

• Previous experience of regulated procurement processes – whether in the

commercial or public sector.

• Previous experience in the media and broadcasting sector