End Date
Monday 02 October 2023
Salary Range
£82,539 - £91,710
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join us. We’re looking for a conscientious and proactive Lawyer to join our Commercial Banking Litigation team
Job Description
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JOB TITLE: Lawyer
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SALARY: £82,539 - £91,710 (May vary depending on location)
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LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh, London
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HOURS: Full Time
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WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
This is an exciting opportunity to join us. We’re looking for a conscientious and proactive Lawyer to join our Commercial Banking Litigation team. The team is within the wider Litigation & Contentious Regulatory (LCR) team which forms part of the wider Legal & Secretariat (L&S) division. This is a rare opportunity for a highly motivated individual to work in a supportive in-house litigation and contentious team.
Why Lloyds Banking Group!
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re crafting finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group an excellent place for everyone. Including you.
You'll join the Commercial Banking Litigation team as a lawyer. The role involves managing a caseload of interesting and high profile litigation matters, advising stakeholders on strategic decision making, and contributing to wider LCR team and L&S division strategic initiatives. You’ll work closely with business colleagues and provide pro-active, pragmatic and commercially aware advice. The role also offers the opportunity to work within other LCR teams, supporting on litigation and contentious matters on a wider Group basis.
You'll work collaboratively as part of a supportive team. This will involve working with others, including the Head of Commercial Banking Litigation, the LCR General Counsel, and colleagues from within the wider LCR team and L&S division.
This role will provide you with an outstanding opportunity to further your ongoing personal and professional development.
What are we looking for!
Key responsibilities
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Deliver litigation support for the Commercial Banking area of the Group.
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Working collaboratively with peers, as well as more senior and more junior colleagues, you will be the responsible for managing all aspects of your caseload, including strategic case management, briefing and influencing key stakeholders, and managing external panel law firms.
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Support business areas in identifying and resolving legal risks.
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Act as legal representative in business/divisional projects, supporting other team members and non-contentious legal colleagues.
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Identify and develop protocols to improve the efficiency of litigation and contentious regulatory management.
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Opportunity to informally line manage and supervise more junior team members.
Capabilities
We need someone legally qualified in England & Wales, Scotland, or with an equivalent legal qualification, and with a current legal practicing certificate. We want someone with an excellent understanding of dispute resolution, with previous experience as a litigator in a law firm and/ or in-house, ideally in the banking and financial services sector.
You’ll need a sound understanding of the legal, technical, and procedural factors affecting contentious matters. Other key capabilities include:
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Ability to clearly and concisely communicate ideas, risks and strategies – both orally and in written form.
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Ability to build trusting and collaborative relationships.
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Strong organisational skills and good attention to detail.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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30 Days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.