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Job details

Job ref 2682
Salary band Any
Salary details unknown
Location Sheffield
Job type Permanent
Experience PQE 1, PQE 2
Job Sector Private Practice
Company Legal Works Recruitment Ltd
Contact unknown
Practice areas Commercial Contracts, Commercial, Ecommerce/IT, Patents and Trademarks/Intellectual Property, Telecomms
Professional levels Solicitor, Lawyer, Fee Earner
Posted 01/03/2012
Expires 20/02/2012

Job Description

COMMERCIAL

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SOLICITORS

LAWYERS

NEW OPTION AT COMMERCIAL PRACTICE

Legal Works is currently seeking to recruit an ambitious commercial IP/IT lawyer for their client a lead national practice based in the Yorkshire office in the TMT Team'

The Team

This team deals with:-
· the full range of IT & e-commerce contracts for owners, developers and end-users & computer games contracts
· continuous IT technology & media work
· branding & IP protection, privacy and confidentiality advice including acting for high net worth individuals and well known personalities and fashion brands
· commercial agency, distribution, supply/sale of goods arrangements and manufacturing agreements, franchising services and consultancy agreements for a range of commercial and industrial clients
· IP and technology exploitation agreements for university spin out companies, biotechnology and engineering companies
· assisting the corporate and private equity groups in due diligence and providing support on corporate transactions
· sponsorship and marketing agreements, joint ventures, collaboration agreements and strategic partnerships
· media, content and IP rights exploitation and licensing agreements
· data protection and information security work, including strategic advice for the US and multinational companies
· outsourcing

The Role

In this role you will be expected to:-
· Deal comfortably with non-contentious IP, IT & commercial work;
· Have a refined sense of business development as you will be expected to develop business, attend marketing and client functions, as well as prepare and present internal and external seminars & write articles on matters of topical interest.

You

You will have:-
· Excellent, IT & commercial law experience and an IP capability, contentious & non-contentious;
· Commercial acumen and excellent inter-personal and client management range of skills is required.
· Good all-round experience in advising on a wide range of IT contracts, with some specialist IP/IP experience,
· Be able to work independently and to deal with a demanding caseload on behalf of a number of clients simultaneously.
· In depth experience of all the group's work types (IP, IT, commercial) is not essential, but the ideally you must have a sound understanding of contract law.
· You will need to demonstrate the ability to express complex legal/technical concepts in plain English and have strong legal and drafting skills.
· You are likely to have been in an established IP or commercial department of a major law firm or specialist TMT/IP firm, or an in-house lawyer with the appropriate experience.

If you would like to speak with our retained Consultant Andrew Nelson in respect of this position or similar vacancies, or if you would like a discussion about your career or the market in general please do call us in the strictest confidence on (phone number removed) / (phone number removed) or email us on (email address removed)


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