Job Title

Associate (1-3PQE)- Charities & Social Ventures

Location

London

Description

The Team

Our Charities and Social Ventures team at Mishcon works with a wide range of impact-driven clients - from fast-moving, impactful start-ups to philanthropists with bold, innovative ideas and charities from 0 to over 350 years old, both local and global. We partner with our clients to help them deliver their strategic and operational plans, and ultimately, achieve a meaningful and lasting positive impact on society and the environment.

We advise our impact-driven clients on the full spectrum of legal and regulatory issues across their lifecycle , from design and establishment to governance, operational, transactional and regulatory matters, growth strategies, international expansion and long-term sustainability. W e have a particular focus on innovative, complex, cross-sector and cross-border work.

Our team leads the firm's relationships with impact-driven clients, and collaborates closely with specialist lawyers across other practice areas and jurisdictions throughout our full-service firm, to seamlessly deliver fully integrated strategic and legal advice to these clients.

We stand out through our unparalleled inside knowledge of charity regulation (from former senior lawyers at the Charity Commission for England and Wales), our ability to work with agility on the most innovative, complex and sector-defining matters, our ability to bridge legal and cultural boundaries on cross-border projects, and our deep commitment as a team to reshaping how charities, social ventures and philanthropists access high-quality, strategic, impact-aligned and tech-enabled legal support.

The Department

Our Charities and Social Ventures team is part of the Mishcon Private department, which comprises tax and wealth planning, property, art, reputation and immigration specialists alongside litigators who are highly experienced at dealing complex multi-jurisdictional cases.

Duties and Responsibilities

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

To manage all client work allocated by the Partners and other fee earners within the Group and sometimes across the wider Department.
To ensure that all client work is progressed in a timely fashion and that the client is kept regularly informed on progress and costs.
At all times to exercise high standards of client care in a professional and pleasant manner.
To demonstrate excellent written and interpersonal skills in order to meet the drafting and presentation aspects of the role.
To ensure the confidentiality and security of all of the Firm's client documentation and information.
To demonstrate excellent organisational and prioritising skills to meet the demands of challenging and commercial internal and external clients.
To demonstrate a willingness to support clients out of hours and on weekends (on occasion), providing urgent round-the-clock advice.
To achieve agreed levels of billing and time recording.
To maintain clear communication links with colleagues in the Firm.
To ensure good working relationships with colleagues, clients and external organisations.
To take responsibility for and attend to self-development.
To take a keen interest in undertaking business development activities both internally and externally.

Skills/Experience

We are looking for an Associate to join our friendly, ambitious and growing Charities and Social Ventures team. This is an exciting opportunity to do meaningful, complex and often pioneering legal work with genuinely impact-driven clients, and to play a part in building a premium charities, social ventures and philanthropy practice that is seen as best-in-class and the go-to team for innovative, complex, cross-sector and cross-border matters.

The key skills and attributes we are looking for include:

Ideally 1-3 years of PQE
Strong academics
Excellent attention to detail, organisational skills and drafting skills
Excellent team player
Confident working with a wide range of client types
Demonstrable commitment to delivering excellent client service
Ability to effectively manage own workloads and priorities
Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Pro-active
Adaptable and flexible
Resilient and calm under pressure
Ambitious, with a desire to build a practice and utilise contacts for business development
Openness to innovation and experience or desire to work with legal AI tools to drive efficiency and client outcomes

We welcome candidates with a background in a legal practice area outside of charity law. For such candidates, we would also be looking for evidence of a strong interest in the charity and wider impact sector, and of your ability to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and on the job.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About Mishcon de Reya LLP

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1400 people withmore than 650 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

With presence in London,Oxford, Cambridge,Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.

The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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