Professional Support Lawyer - Banking & Finance - Edinburgh

CMS is seeking to expand its Banking and Finance professional support team with lawyers who have an enthusiasm for the law and extensive people skills. The successful applicants will be  supporting a busy and diverse Banking team with practice areas that include corporate and leveraged finance, real estate finance, infrastructure, project and asset finance, restructuring and insolvency, fintech and digital assets. This role can be based in either the London or Edinburgh office and is suitable for those seeking full time or part time hours.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

About the Role

The individual will be proactive, self-motivated, and highly organised. The individual will collaborate with different services across the business as part of a valued professional support function. 

The PSL will bring opinions and ideas to the table, both in respect of optimising his/her role and delivering the training and know-how required by the various Banking team (including via keeping up-to-date on market developments).

The individual will have an important role in the team, working closely with the partners to enhance business functionality as well as being a “go to” for fee earner support. The individual will be able to manage multiple competing demands on his/her time and willing and able to take steps to ensure they are visible within the group and the wider firm.

About You

Has a level of expertise in Banking and Finance and related law recognised for this skill by current employer.
•    A lawyer capable of gaining the respect and confidence of fee earners (at all levels) and partners on technical issues and whose work product will, indirectly, command the respect of the team’s clients and targets.
•    Experience in a fee-earning or PSL role within a large City law firm or equivalent is useful, but certainly not essential.  
•    Demonstrates a high level of technical legal knowledge and expertise, together with expanding peripheral knowledge and expertise. 
•    Strong intellectual ability.
•    Excellent written / oral communication skills. 
•    Excellent training and interpersonal skills.
•    Excellent drafting skills.
•    Ability to write and produce presentation materials.
•    Strong organisational skills.
•    Strongly self-motivated and self-managing as the role will require someone able to identify appropriate priorities among many options and drive projects forward.
•    Excellent research skills.
•    Good project management skills.
•    Has a good understanding of best use of IT and other support functions to enhance advice and services, both within the firm and externally to clients.
•    Credible and professional; sets an example by high quality of own work, consistency, enthusiasm and an open and professional attitude throughout the workplace.
•    Courteous and considerate in all professional relationships; an excellent listener; judges well when to listen and when to transmit know-how.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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