Role: Contentious Construction Solicitor
Location: Edinburgh – flexible working available
Salary: Highly competitive
Iconic Resourcing are working with an innovative and collaborative firm to appoint a Contentious Construction Solicitor to join their market leading team in Edinburgh. The successful candidate will have previous experience with a range of businesses and sectors.
For the right person, this position offers a busy and broad spectrum of work, with a focus on the energy sector, you will have the opportunity to regularly advise on items such as infrastructure, civil engineering, transport, oil and gas, renewables (hydro schemes, tidal, onshore and offshore wind), commercial developments etc.
Your Role
- Documenting settlements and agreements, and advising clients on the concluded position, including how to continue projects and commercial relationships
- Take an active role in large-scale court actions in the TCC, Court of Session, and Sheriff Courts
- Experience a wide variety of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration, adjudication, and mediation
- Advise clients on their contractual provisions and obligations, in the context of issues and disputes
- Provide strategic pre-dispute advice to large commercial clients, including assessing the strength of position, options to avoid formal dispute processes, and the preparation for such a process
Candidates should be:
- 3 – 6 years’ PQE
- Demonstrate appropriate range of knowledge
- Be a confident communicator, able to present and provide a range of advice that match client needs.
- Commercially astute, with an ability and want to build long-term relationships.
- Have the ability to produce a solution best addressing the client’s requirements
- Able to work well on their own initiative as well as contribute to the team
- Have the gravitas required to credibly advise colleagues and clients
- Be able to confidently contribute to business development.
The firm are well known for their welcoming and supportive culture. They have a strong social ethos, encouraging personal development and a healthy work-life balance. This business are happy to discuss flexible and hybrid working.
Iconic Resourcing value candidate experience and understand considering a new role can be a daunting experience, we are therefore offering first stage informal confidential chat where you can discover more about the role, please contact Jac Atkinson at Iconic Resourcing or for a confidential chat contact Jacqueline.Atkinson@iconicresourcing.com or call 07713750725.
Not all candidates will meet every single desired qualification or skill. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.
At Iconic Resourcing we are engaged by many leading organisations across Scotland and our aim is to keep the recruitment process simple. Interviews are likely to be held via our video interviewing platform both with Iconic Resourcing and our client. Please visit our website to view all of our Iconic Jobs across Scotland.
Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.