Job Description

Company/Commercial/Corporate work and General Litigation, Senior Attorney;

Possible Designate Partner opportunity;

Hollywood Beach Florida Location;

New Law Firm;

Open to both US & UK candidates, (Visa application/Bar Membership studies sponsored);

We are working in connection with: www.florida-legal-recruitment.com

Our client is setting up a new law firm; they are seeking to appoint a very capable corporate services lawyer who can act as contentious all-rounder litigator when required.  We are also hopefully seeking our lawyer client to be a future Member of the Florida Bar, (Visa application and Bar Membership studies sponsored).

Your possibly wondering why our Canadian law firm client is looking for a UK application.  To hire a local US attorney with all of the right qualifications and work skills, the hire cost will be in excess of $US 180K, we can find a 3-6PQE candidate for 40K sterling.  The studying will be an emense task and the visa application vigourous, but then the upside is nothing less than excellent.

If your fed up with working for a large law firm with all the politics that goes around with the action and fancy relocating to Florida, here is the opportunity.  The new US law firm will be representing: Small to medium sized corporations, property companies, property developers, owner managed businesses, housing associations, charities, franchises, landowners, bio-agricultural businesses, scientific, manufacturing, shipping, fishing, multi-site retail, supermarket chains, retail shops, shopping malls local authorities and HNI – private individuals.

The best way to dissolve a business or personal dispute is not always in the courts. Working in a trusting partnership with the valued corporate or private client, hopefully always leads to the best commercial, financial and most agreeable outcome.

Our client recognises and values all associated legal solutions, – involving adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation. Resolving the business or personal dispute begins with asking all the right questions at initial consultation.

Once instructed, our client proceeds with individual case analysis, legal strategy to be used and intricate financial risk assessment. The client is then given a choice of options that are considered the best way forward for a successful and agreeable outcome.

We are seeking a senior lawyer/attorney 4PQE+ who has well-rounded experience in some of the following contentious and non – contentious areas of fee earning work:

• Contract and commercial, construction;
• Regulatory litigation;
• Professional negligence;
• Insurance and volume debt recovery;
• Employment;
• Pensions;
• Intellectual property;
• Real estate;
• Complex and confusing contracts;
• Shareholders disputes;
• Directors and partnerships disputes;
• Property including housing, landlord and tenant;
• Boundaries and rights of way;
• Disputed debts;
• Professional negligence;
• Insolvency;
• Intellectual property;
• Construction;
• Emergency procedures, such as injunctions, environmental cases and carriage of goods;
• Disputed wills and trusts;
• Business crime;
• Business law;
• Charities;
• Commercial property;
• Employment and HR issues;
• Health & safety;
• Hospitality;
• Insurance disputes;
• Public sector liability;
• Retail disputes;
• Sports contracts and endorsements;
• Premises contracts and leases;
• Construction & engineering;
• Contentious on going probate;
• Quick fix probate;
• Corporate, commercial & international disputes;
• Housing, leasehold & enfranchisement;
• Gaming and licensing;
• Passing off and IT disputes;
• Planning;
• Environmental & compulsory purchase;
• Professional negligence;
• Property disputes including landlord & tenant;
• Business crime and franchises;
• Mergers, Acquisitions and related transactional work;
• Advice on business structures;
• Drafting complicated non-standard contracts;
• Partnership law;
• Management buy-outs;
• Management buy-ins;
• Joint ventures;
• Share holder agreements;
• Corporate finance agency and distribution;
• Terms of trade;
• General sales and purchase businesses administration;
• Incorporation and unincorporated business issues;
• Employment disputes;
• Partnership franchise;
• Agency and distribution work;
• PFI projects and commercial property developments;
• Debt finance, business disposal, purchase agreements;
• Tax law;
• Health and safety law;
• Intellectual property matters including trademarks, patents and copyright,
• Competition;
• Technology law;
• Intellectual capital;
• Outsourcing contracts;
• Contractual performance of product developers and ideologists;
• Software piracy;
• Data protection act work;
• E-commerce compliance;
• Regulatory compliance, copyright infringement and piracy.
• Corporate governance;
• Winding up companies;
• Shareholder agreements;
• Setting up companies and charities;
• Advising on business structures;
• Company secretarial service;
• Terms of business;
• Intellectual property licences;
• Service Level agreements;
• Management buy outs;
• Asset sales;
• Trademark registrations.
• Commercial propertywork;
• Sales and purchase of leasehold/freehold land;
• Residential conveyancing and agricultural law;
• Dispute resolution work;
• Professional negligence;
• Construction disputes;
• Judicial review;
• Debt recovery;
• Bankruptcy;
• Contact claims.

We are not expecting applicants to have all of the above mentioned legal capability.  But you will have to instruct counsel to defend, prosecute or advise when the occasion arises.  Use your commercial and general litigation experience to action upon this very interesting international green-field site opportunity.

For further information and to apply, contact Jonny Scott-Slater, Ashley Armstrong or Karen Palmer.

Telephone, 01872 274227 – USA, 954 378 9414;

CV2 – UK, [email protected]

CV2 – USA, [email protected]

Confidentiality is always assured;

This position is classified as a talent export opportunity and we will be charging a fee for transacting this international opportunity.

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