Contentious Construction Associate/ Senior Associate
Energy
Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Southampton
Apply nowWe are seeking an ambitious and experienced contentious construction Associate or Senior Associate to join one of the largest and fastest growing teams outside of London. Based from one of our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, or Southampton, with a blend of office and home working available, this is a superb opportunity to progress your career, working with high quality clients as part of an encouraging and supportive team.
What you'll do
From the outset, you will be involved in a range of innovative energy, project, infrastructure and construction disputes matters, encompassing all forms of risk management, strategic advice and dispute resolution including adjudication, litigation and arbitration. You can expect to be using your existing skills and knowledge to work with independence where you feel comfortable doing so, whilst benefiting from support as needed from senior lawyers on more complex matters. We will actively encourage you to develop your skills and confidence over time, whether this is with client contact and business advisory expertise, or with the supervision and development of more junior members of the team. If you enjoy client development opportunities, there is considerable scope to engage and begin to develop or enhance your profile in the region.
What we're looking for
The team itself boasts a wealth of experience acting on significant national and international projects, and in growing the team, we are looking ahead to our future leaders who will contribute significantly to expanding our practice. You will be personally team orientated and enjoy collaboration across your immediate and wider team, whilst also being keen to seek opportunities where possible to work together with colleagues across the firm. We're a enthusiastic, personable and grounded team which enjoys working together to deliver great solutions to our clients, achieving this remotely and also through working together in person.
With recent experience working as part of a busy contentious construction team, you will be seeking to take the next step in your career, where you can enhance your profile and create new and lasting connections with household name clients. We're seeking someone who is personally self-motivated and equally able to motivate others, with the enthusiasm and commitment to share knowledge and build capacity across the wider team. In your current role, you will be able to show how you have begun to engage with new clients whilst expanding existing relationships as a trusted business advisor. You may have already worked to begin building your profile with these clients and are positive and active in engaging with a variety of business development opportunities within relevant regional and national networks.
You will be someone we can invest in to help us to build and grow the contentious construction practice, and be proactive, motivated and ambitious for its success. In return, you will be fully encouraged, supported and resourced to be successful in growing your practice, and complementing the considerable skills across the sector team. You'll be keen to progress and we will work with you to ensure you realise your potential by agreeing realistic and achievable goals which will get you to where you want to go.
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you're working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with private medical insurance for all lawyers, 28 days annual leave and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. Employees can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.
Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Contact us at [email protected] and we will come back to you as soon as we can.
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from eight locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London, as well as a 'hub' base in Oxford.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities, and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
