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About the Role
You will act as a trusted legal partner to the business, providing practical support across commercial, employment, compliance, and dispute matters. Working closely with the Head of Legal, you will manage your own workload while helping to improve legal processes, governance, and compliance across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Provide clear, commercially focused legal advice across the business
- Manage legal inbox escalations and ensure queries are handled efficiently
- Draft, review and negotiate client terms, supplier agreements, NDAs, IP agreements and data processing agreements
- Support consultants with legal and commercial negotiations
- Maintain and improve legal templates, internal policies and key documentation
- Support litigation and dispute matters, including evidence gathering, bundles, statements and correspondence
- Work with HR on employment matters including policies, employee relations, settlement agreements, grievances, disciplinaries and redundancy processes
- Identify legal training needs and help create and deliver practical training for the business
- Support audits, reporting, document management and compliance activity
- Contribute ideas to strengthen legal governance as the business continues to grow
Requirements
- Strong legal experience, ideally in-house or in a commercial environment
- Good experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts
- Confidence advising non-legal stakeholders
- Strong communication and drafting skills
- Good judgement and the ability to balance risk with commercial priorities
- Excellent organisation and attention to detail
- A proactive, practical approach and willingness to get stuck in
Skills
- Commercial contracts
- Employment law
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Contract negotiation
- Legal risk assessment
- Legal training development
- Document management
- Governance
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Solicitor qualification in England & Wales (beneficial, not essential)
About the Company
- La Fosse is an ambitious, employee-owned talent solutions business with exciting growth plans.
- Legal is seen as a key business partner, not just a support function.
- This role offers visibility, variety and the chance to influence important commercial decisions.
- You’ll be joining a collaborative, fast-moving environment where your work will directly support our people, clients and future growth.