Stephenson Harwood LLP Looking for Civil Fraud – Associate at London, UK Full Time

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get responsibility and involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.

The team acts for claimants and defendants, and has a diverse client base, including companies (from the UK and abroad), insolvency practitioners, and ultra-high net worth individuals. A significant part of the team’s case load involves freezing orders and other interim injunctions, and almost all the work is cross border. All the associates in the team gain significant court experience, usually attending multiple hearings every year. The team’s work is focussed exclusively on civil litigation; it does not work on regulatory or criminal investigations.
This is a specialist role within the fraud and asset recovery team, so we are seeking a candidate who wishes to specialise in this area rather than maintaining a broad litigation practice. We are seeking a motivated candidate with six months to 2.5 years’ experience in civil litigation, with some experience of fraud and/or freezing orders. Regulatory and criminal experience is not relevant to this role.

Actively managing case progress and implementing decisionsActing as the key contact point on smaller matters for clients, experts, and on all matters for junior barristersDrafting witness statements, and other court documentsDrafting inter parties correspondenceLegal and procedural research and drafting adviceAttending meetings and hearingsPreparing legal articles and updates,Developing own informal internal and external network of contactsAttending business development and profile-raising events (client networking events, attending seminars, giving talks, etc.)
Qualified lawyer with civil litigation experience from a large firm in a highly regarded civil litigation departmentAmbitious self-starterWillingness to take responsibility early onResilient and motivated with the ability to handle setbacks and pressure, and to manage a number of cases concurrentlyTeam player, willing to work collegiately within a close-knit teamExcellent academic and professional qualifications