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Part of our mission at the InterLaw Diversity Forum is to support diverse talent along the career pipeline. Our research has shown that diverse talent faces increased challenges, and that the 'more boxes you tick' (i.e. intersectionality), the greater those challenges become.
To aid the career progression of talent (both lawyers and business services) from all strands of diversity and inclusion (including LGBT+, Race & Ethnicity, Disability, Gender) and social mobility, we work with organisations who want to reach the broadest applicant pool possible so that they can source the best talent.
If your organisation is interested in participating, please contact:
Jonathan.Leonhart@interlawdiversityforum.org.

Application period: Open
Director,
EU Relations
Legal Advisers
At the Government Legal Department (GLD), we’re responsible for providing legal guidance on issues that really matter. As the largest provider of legal services to the Government, we offer support on issues ranging from human rights to social care, and from education to the environment. Working with every key department in the Civil Service,nearly 3,000 team members collaborate to handle issues that impact on every aspect of society.
The GLD EU Relations Legal Advisers Directorate was created on 1 January 2025, to provide legal advice and support to the Cabinet Office in relation to the UK’s relationship with the European Union. The aim of this new directorate is to support the Cabinet Office EU Relations Secretariat in its strategic priorities in relation to the EU/UK relationship. As the leader of a new directorate, you would have the opportunity to set the culture and strategy, and create new, productive and collaborative relationships with colleagues across Government.
To be successful in this role you’ll have:
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Outstanding leadership skills with the ability to recruit and train professional staff, build and oversee a skilled, cohesive team with a clear vision and inspire and empower professional staff.
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A commitment to diversity, creating a truly inclusive working environment.
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Experience of providing and overseeing the provision of authoritative, risk based legal advice demonstrating excellent judgement.
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Exceptional communication skills and the ability to manage workloads and resources across a legal function.

Application period: Open
Development & Investment property Lawyers
We are seeking to recruit E&W qualified property lawyers with 1-8 years’ PQE as part of the growth of our leading Property Development and Investment practice.
The position calls for a team player with ambition and strong transactional property experience ideally gained at a large commercial practice. We are looking for candidates who are keen to undertake a broad range of Real Estate work across a variety of sectors, people with a desire to work with some of the UK’s largest developers and investors and those with an entrepreneurial spark who are self-motivated. We are seeking people who are problem solvers, good communicators, adaptable and those keen to develop and implement new technologies as our industry moves through significant change.

Application period: Open
private equity – mid-level associate
We are seeking a mid-level Associate to join our Private Capital Transactions team. Our team in London has seen a sustained growth in demand for our services – and, as a consequence we’ve enjoyed a 50% increase in the number of deals we have advised on over the last 4 years. To meet our client’s needs and the volume of our work we are growing the team and are now hiring talented and ambitious associates.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Associates will be expected to advise private equity funds and their portfolio companies with respect to sophisticated public or private acquisitions, growth investments and other similar transactions, as well as general corporate matters, including governance and securities law compliance matters. Associate will have direct client contact and the opportunity to work both within teams and manage varies parts of transactions independently.
Required Skills/Abilities:
We are looking for a mid-level qualified associate. Candidates will have a keen interest in working in a busy Private Capital Transactions team. The ideal candidate will have a good knowledge in a similar role at a large law firm working on large private equity deals, have excellent interpersonal and written communication skills and the ability to manage priorities in a fast paced and, at times, deadline driven environment.

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Legal Consultant
Jefferies is looking to hire a junior lawyer (0-3 years PQE) or senior paralegal into its London Investment Banking Legal team with relevant experience in the practice of a leading international law firm or financial institution.
Reporting to the Head of Investment Banking Legal in Europe, the individual will work closely with and provide advice to the investment banking, corporate broking and capital markets teams. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing business, and the ideal candidate will have the initiative and flexibility to support the business expansion across a wide variety of markets and products.
The role will be broad and varied and will involve reviewing and negotiating engagement letters, non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”), adherence letters, non-reliance letters, highly confident / highly interested letters. From time to time, you may be asked to assist on transactional work (likely ECM, but potentially on M&A and DCM matters) as well. The role will also involve an element of administration for the IB Legal team and wider Legal function.
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Fee-paid judges
There are 150 vacancies for Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, with vacancies across all 7 chambers. Tribunals often sit as panels consisting of a legally qualified chair (the judge) and non-legal members with specific areas of expertise. During the hearing the judge must ensure that the overriding objective (to deal with cases fairly and justly) is observed, which will include all parties having the opportunity to participate in proceedings as fully and fairly as possible. Many cases involve individuals putting their own case forward without legal assistance. The judge should therefore help ensure the system is accessible to all by guiding parties through the procedures appropriately. Except in cases that involve national security or evidence of a very personal nature, substantive final hearings in tribunal cases are held in public.
There are 50 vacancies for Fee-paid Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales). Employment judges in England and Wales preside over Employment Tribunals, the jurisdiction of which involves a wide range of workplace disputes involving claims against employers, individuals, trade unions, professional and regulatory bodies. There are currently more than 90 different causes of action that can be brought to the Employment Tribunals.
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Application period: Open
Equality & Access to Justice mangr (12mnth ftc)
The Role
The Modernising Delivery Programme is a business-critical programme for the BSB. The Equality & Access to Justice Manager will be joining the BSB at a very exciting time and will have the opportunity to ensure that ensure the BSB adopts an evidence-based approach in designing inclusive policies, practices and decision-making processes through scoping EIAs, conducting EIA assessments, embedding EIAs and providing ongoing monitoring and evaluation in review processes.
This role is required to support the implementation of the BSB’s Modernising Delivery Programme and there will also be opportunities to support wider E&AJ departmental project deliverables.
Working for the BSB
The Bar Standards Board offers excellent terms and conditions of employment, including:
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Hybrid Working is the agreed way of working.
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We work from the office for a minimum of four days per month.
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Option to work from the office more and when there are team or organisational events.
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Up to 31 days annual leave, plus a holiday transfer scheme
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Up to 12% employer’s pension contribution
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Parental leave and flexible working policies
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Plus a range of additional benefits, including gym classes, discounts and rewards.
The BSB
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) regulates barristers and their professional practice and specialised legal services businesses in England and Wales in the public interest. We are responsible for setting education and training requirements, setting standards, authorising organisations, monitoring the service provided, and handling complaints. Barristers work at the heart of our justice system so BSB’s mission is fundamentally important to the maintenance of the rule of law.

Application period: Open
Financial restructuring associate (London)
We are seeking a 1-2 year qualified lawyer for our London Financial Restructuring team. Strong restructuring and insolvency knowledge required, including prior experience of schemes of arrangements and relevant exposure to commercially minded financial institution clients such as hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors and creditor committees. Superior communication skills are essential.
Equal opportunities
We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

Application period: CLOSED
Lead Counsel (4 roles)
We are recruiting for two permanent Lead Counsels – both are commercial roles (one focussed on our music licensing business area and the other on our membership business area). In addition, there is a further 12 month FTC Lead Counsel role available, focussing on music licensing. While these roles are full time, we are also recruiting for a part time Lead Counsel (2-3 days pw) to support our technology and procurement business area as part of a job share.
The licensing roles will include advising on commercial terms relating to broadcasting, on-demand services, music services of all kinds, physical products (CDs, DVDs etc) and public performance of music, including drafting and negotiation of licences. These roles will also involve work on resolving disputes related to licences, working closely with our contentious and compliance lawyers. The membership role will provide advice on relations with our songwriter and publisher members who entrust us with their music rights, advising on a range of commercial agreements and policies, also including the resolution of disputes. The technology role will focus on supporting a wide range of commercial matters including procurement and complex IT agreements.
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OIM - Panel member & CMA Non-exec Director
The Office for the Internal Market (OIM) is being created following the passage of the UK Internal Market Act 2020. Once set up later this year, the OIM will analyse the health of the UK internal market and report to the UK Parliament and the devolved legislatures.
The OIM are seeking a Panel Chair who can provide effective leadership and strategic direction, oversee the proactive and reactive monitoring and reporting on the health of the UK internal market and represent the OIM Panel in the public sphere.
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Application period: Open
Internal Auditor/Senior Internal Auditor
Location: London or Glasgow
The newly formed Internal Audit function sits within the Office of General Counsel, a global team made up of the Global General Counsel (London), two General Counsel (Glasgow and Brisbane), one Deputy General Counsel and Head of Internal Audit (London), five Counsel (one in Glasgow, three in Brisbane, and one in Perth) and one Internal Audit Manager (London).
We are looking to add a new Internal Auditor role, based in the UK, to the team. This role description is for the new UK-based role.
Internal Audit oversees the firm's internal audit programme. A three-year audit plan has been developed by Internal Audit and approved by the firm's Risk Committee. The new role would focus on delivering this, whether in-house or with (external) co-sourced providers. Audits cover a broad range of topics - from ISO-controls, and regulatory and risk-focused audits, to topics arising from client contractual commitments/client audits. Scopes are agreed with stakeholders across the firm, which requires coordination with colleagues across the firm's offices.

Application period: Open
Competition Associate (1-2 PQE)
(London)
Our International Competition/Antitrust group’s workload has continued to grow, and they are seeking to further expand the existing team by hiring an additional associate (1-2 years PQE) to join the team based in London. The following criteria is essential:
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Recent London market experience from a renowned internationally focused competition team (non-contentious workflow).
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Experience in merger control (UK and EU) and foreign investment matters, including running and coordinating multi-jurisdictional filing processes.
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Experience in obtaining merger control approvals before both the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
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Previous exposure to working with financial institutions, PE/funds and/or tech/digital and/or energy company clients.
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Strong experience in M&A transactions and/or restructurings.
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Previous exposure to FDI work desirable, but not essential.
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We are looking for someone with a self-starter mentality, with the desire to continuously develop.
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Strong academics needed, with additional post-graduate competition/antitrust studies preferred.
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Candidates must be fluent in English and demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
Equal opportunities
We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

Application period: CLOSED
Manager, international DEI - IOM
Our Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (GDEI) team is responsible for the enterprise-wide DE&I strategy and ensuring that each of the company’s global markets, across the three-legged stool, are supported in a culturally sensitive way that mitigates reputational risk. Advancing DEI is recognized as a business imperative, and as a result, there is an immediate need to support the three market segments: International Operated Markets (IOM), which are composed of wholly-owned markets, or countries in which McDonald’s operates restaurants, International Operated Markets – Business Unit (IOM BU), which are composed of smaller markets that are wholly-owned, and International Developmental Licensed Markets (IDLM), which are markets where McDonald’s has licensed its franchising rights to strategic partners.
Reporting into the Senior Director for International DEI, three managers in newly built roles, one for IOM, one for IOM BU, and one for IDLM will work closely in a collaborative environment.
The Manager in this role will be responsible for the International Operated Markets (IOM) segment (Australia, Canada, France, Germany and United Kingdom) and will drive the GDEI strategy in partnership with market leadership as well as with colleagues from across all corporate functions in the markets. The work will include assessing the markets’ DEI strategies against the GDEI enterprise-wide strategy and support the journey of each market to become an industry leader in the space. Additionally, the Manager will be responsible for assessing each market regarding how DEI present and use that data in conjunction with the strategy assessment to develop or enhance market-specific plans. Finally, once the markets have their plans, the Manager will assist the markets in activating the plans and monitoring progress.
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Legal
Internships
We are recruiting a number of Legal Interns across our Film and TV businesses based either at our Central London office or our West London office in Osterley.
Legal Interns (Content Group)
The legal Interns (2 roles available) work within Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, dealing with the acquisition, distribution and production of Film and TV content. You will work with lawyers from the start of the deal where a title has been board approved, the signing of the deal, through to the completion of legal delivery.
Legal Intern (Networks)
This legal Intern will work within the NBCUniversal International Networks division, the international entertainment channels group of NBCUniversal. You will work with lawyers on a broad range of matters including: assisting with drafting and reviewing various legal documents, including channel distribution related agreements for NBCUniversal’s entertainment channels and for Sky News International, undertaking legal research, managing the signing processes of agreements and assisting with ad hoc matters.
Legal Intellectual Property Intern (Corporate)
As an Intellectual Property Brands & Content Intern, you will support the protection and enforcement of NBCUniversal’s prized portfolio of popular film and television brands and content, ranging from franchises like Jurassic Park/World and Despicable Me/Minions to The Office and The Umbrella Academy.
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