Solicitor

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The opportunity

The role of solicitor offers an exciting opportunity to take the next step in your career to grow your skills within a stimulating arts environment.

Working alongside solicitors and contracts managers within the Legal Services team, you will advise and interact with motivated colleagues across the university at all levels, drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on contracts and regulatory matters for a wide range of projects.

UAL’s Legal Services team deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters and you will need to be willing to expand your knowledge and assist senior solicitors with a wide variety of different matters.

The key duties of this role are:

• Reviewing, drafting and advising on a variety of agreements, including consultancy, agency, grants, research and development, confidentiality, data sharing/processing, supply and purchase, scholarship, sponsorship and development, collaboration, academic, student agreements – plus other diverse student, commercial and publicly funded project agreements
• Advising generally on intellectual property law, charity law and regulatory matters.

About you

You are a qualified solicitor who has gained contracts experience in private practice or an in-house legal team.  You need to be able to write fluently and have the ability to convey highly technical information in a clear way.

Importantly, you have a strong commercial focus and an excellent grasp of legal and commercial work across a broad range of projects. You will also have a good working knowledge or some experience of intellectual property law issues.

Detail conscious, you approach work with a practical and proactive mind-set – quickly identifying problems, understanding the context and proposing constructive commercial solutions.

Knowledge of or an interest in higher education law would be an advantage. Individuals with a range of experience in private or in-house environments are welcomed. 

The essential criteria for this post are:

• Qualified to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales with post-qualification experience in respect of contract and commercial law gained within private practice or an in-house legal team
• Excellent drafting skills and the ability to provide clear and practical advice
• Experience of working under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Good research skills and a willingness to maintain and expand your legal knowledge.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Leila Farrance, Resourcing Adviser via email usgstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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