Intellectual Property Lawyer
- Employer
- Burges Salmon
- Location
- Bristol (City Centre), Bristol
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 8 Oct 2024
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors – Private Practice
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Practice Area
- Intellectual Property
- Experience Level
- 2-5yrs PQE, 5+ yrs PQE
- Role Classification
- Lawyer
Job Details
Associate/ Senior Associate
Inspiring Excellence, Driving Innovation
Are you an Intellectual Property Lawyer, interested in working on cutting-edge, high-profile matters with industry leaders? Do you want to be part of a culture that values innovation, excellence, and collaboration?
Our team of non-contentious Intellectual Property Lawyers have extensive experience advising on the development and exploitation of IP and IP in contracts. We specialise in high-quality work for both commercial and public sector clients and are looking to further strengthen the team with an IP Lawyer who is driven and passionate about IP.
The Team
We are consistently ranked top tier by the L500 and Chambers and Partners and have built a reputation for advising on complex legal matters and thrive on high profile and groundbreaking projects.
There are over 20 lawyers in the team. Here are the key contacts in the Bristol office:
The Work
Our expertise in Intellectual Property includes the following:
- IP transactions, such as licensing, assignments and franchising
- advice on structuring IP ownership
- R&D, collaboration agreements (both academic and private sector) and joint ventures
- intellectual property audits
- support for broader transactions
Due to a developed understanding of our clients' industry sectors, we attract high quality national and international clients. Our clients include John Lewis // Virgin // Waitrose // Yeo Valley. For more information, visit Intellectual Property - Burges Salmon.
What you'll need
- Relevant experience working on non-contentious/transactional Intellectual Property matters
- Be a strong team player, with excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to manage a complex and varied workload effectively
- Be self-motivated and willing to learn
- Experience of leading others to develop their skills and knowledge.
- Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer
This role would suit a lawyer wishing to further their career in a practice that will provide a varied range of high profile IP work. Our IP lawyers are encouraged to participate in business development with excellent support and opportunity for career progression.
Benefits
Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package and find out more about the benefits of a legal career with Burges Salmon, here.
We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.
It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.
Get in touch!
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 0117 307 6776 - for an informal and confidential conversation.
Are you ready to blaze a trail with industry leaders? Make a leap. Make a splash…
Company
Standing with you. Ambitious for you.
Standing with you, we’re ambitious to provide the best service for you – and it’s ambition with purpose.
In a rapidly changing world, our commitment to environmental sustainability, and our social, inclusion and diversity responsibilities, are central to that purpose – enabling us to support you with your own response to these opportunities.
We’re down-to-earth, straightforward and strategically switched-on. You benefit from our specialism in complex legal areas, along with market sector expertise that’s as deep as it is focused.
We’re always accessible, always responsive. Between you and us, there are no barriers.
Above all, you’ll find our commercial edge is matched by a genuine caring culture – for you, for our people and for the wider communities around us.
It’s what makes us a law firm you can trust. One you’ll enjoy working with.
Our vision
Our vision is to be the market-leading independent UK law firm that provides the best proposition for its people and its clients.
By focusing on the markets and areas of expertise where we have extensive knowledge and experience, we achieve the best outcomes for our clients, who range from large organisations, entrepreneurial businesses and public sector bodies, to individuals, families and their global wealth. We are trusted to help them with everything from their everyday legal needs to their business critical issues and all points in between.
- UK-wide: We have lawyers who are qualified to work in all three legal jurisdictions in the UK – England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- International: Across the world, we work with a select number of like-minded independent law firms – our Preferred Law Firm network.
- Website
- http://www.burges-salmon.com/
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 117 939 2000
- Location
-
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
BS2 0ZX
United Kingdom
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