Cousins Business Law: Vacancies for Solicitors

Real rewards for all your hard work

Bill £200,000 and take home £100,000 – how's that for a reward?

The Firm

Cousins Business Law (www.business-lawfirm.co.uk) is an exciting, specialist, highly regarded small law firm which has attracted lawyers from Legal 500 and certain of the better local firms. Operating in an innovative way the firm offers a flexible alternative to working for a 'traditional' practice.

The way of working has consistently won praise including the Broadband Britain Challenge Champions, the DTI E-Commerce Awards regional winner and Best Law Firm Website in the E-Loties.

Our lawyers usually work from a home-office base and are fully supported by the latest in IT, telecommunications and web-enabled software, as well as by first-class marketing and finance departments. Regular team and client meetings, training and support on marketing and client care skills, coupled with networking activity, provide the interaction of an office environment but without the interruptions.

Cousins Business Law is driven by a client focused, honest and plain speaking approach to the law and embraces new technology to provide first-class legal services to a broad portfolio of regional, national and international clients.

Serving a mix of SMEs and family-owned businesses, companies, partnerships and sole traders, the firm remains committed to its ongoing vision to identify and develop business in new market sectors.

Current Lawyer Vacancies

Senior Commercial Lawyer

A great opportunity for autonomy and high earnings for a solicitor with at least 6 years’ experience and a strong following of clients.

Although flexible, the work will include:

contract drafting and negotiating,
data protection and IP advice,
developing software licenses and agreements,
joint venture agreements
and other general trading issues.

Key attributes required:

Networking and business development skills a must;
Exceptional client care;
An ability to understand what clients want as well as what they need;
A real understanding of the wider business issues facing clients;
Ability to talk and draft in plain English;
Speed;
Flexibility;
Be IT literate: able to use MS Word & Outlook;
Not be reliant upon a surrounding support team to deliver results;
Self motivated and well organised;
Be professional and competent but friendly and relaxed.

Senior Dispute Management Lawyer

An opportunity to enjoy considerable rewards for a solicitor with at least 5 years’ experience.

Although flexible, the work will essentially include quality commercial litigation and dispute management for SME clients. This could include property and land litigation, contract litigation, insolvency litigation, professional negligence and white-collar crime (fraud, regulatory offences, etc).

With technical ability that is beyond reproach, you will have a real understanding of SME and family-owned businesses and must possess strong client development and networking skills. You will be a confident, self-motivated lawyer with excellent IT skills who enjoys working as part of an integrated team but who thrives in an autonomous environment.

Key responsibilities:

Bring into the firm most of your existing files and contacts/introducers of work;
Create and expand your own network and also efficiently service leads from Cousins Business Law marketing activity;
Work closely with our marketing support to exploit work and leads opportunities;
Network on and off line;
Write regular articles of interest to SME and family-owned businesses;
Identify, connect with and market to prospective new clients and contacts;
Create and maintain relationships with referrers, visit and maintain the firm’s existing referrers;
Market yourself and the firm generally;
Contribute to discussions on the strategy of the firm;
Take full part in team meetings and development sessions;
Write content for the website and other marketing materials.

The benefits of working with Cousins Business Law include:

Total flexi-time (as long as the clients are happy, you choose when you work).
Ditto holidays (real professionals should be trusted and left to do their work when they decide).
Payment directly related to work done and bills paid, at a 50% payment of bills paid basis; i.e. the more you do, the more you receive.
Great support from and access direct to the senior partner.
A very happy team—proud to be involved.
Pay is for the job, not the age or the certificates, so Legal Execs are paid equally to solicitors.
Work from home—most of us do!
Very proper and professional firm.

Interested?
If you are interested in working with Cousins Business Law contact Gary Cousins by email or on 0121 778 3212.

For a more detailed job spec email Gary Cousins here.

All approaches are handled with the strictest of confidence.

No agencies.