About the Role
Simmons Adaptive is seeking a shipping/marine finance lawyer to provide internal support to Simmons & Simmons for a 2-3 month period, with a hybrid working arrangement.
Responsibilities
- Support Simmons & Simmons internally as a shipping/marine finance lawyer.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer
- Significant shipping/marine finance experience
- Problem solver with a collaborative approach
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment
- Ability to work quickly and effectively to tight deadlines
- Excellent organization skills with the ability to effectively prioritize workloads
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as part of a wider team
- All recruits must go through our background screening process, which may include a DBS certificate depending on the position.
Skills
- Shipping/marine finance
- Problem solving
- Collaboration
- Working in dynamic environments
- Meeting deadlines
- Organization
- Prioritization
- Autonomy
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract
Experience Level
- Significant experience
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
Benefits
- Access to high-quality roles
- Work within Simmons & Simmons’ market-leading clients
- Support from a Simmons & Simmons ‘sponsor Partner’ whilst on external assignment
- Access to the Firms’ resources and Know-how when on assignment
- Invitation to in-person and virtual networking events exclusively for Adaptive consultants
- Access to firmwide webinars and events
- The backing of a leading international law firm
- Supportive of flexible working arrangements
About the Company
- Simmons Adaptive is the flexible resourcing team for leading international law firm, Simmons & Simmons.
- Clients need flexible resourcing solutions to meet changing marketplace demands.
- Simmons & Simmons adapts and embraces new service delivery forms.
- Simmons Adaptive provides a flexible resourcing solution with the same high quality expected from Simmons & Simmons.
- The firm emphasizes recruiting and retaining staff that meet high standards.
- Adaptive consultants are fully supported by the Simmons & Simmons team with a sponsoring Partner and client team.
- Consultants have access to the firm's resources and Know-how and opportunities for training and development.
- For additional information on the firm, please visit www.simmons-simmons.com.
- Every day, expert teams across Europe, the Middle East and Asia solve complex challenges.
- The firm is an international melting pot of perspectives and experiences, united in helping to shape a better future for clients, people, and communities.
- It is a place for ideas, skills, ambition, and innovation, personal growth, and professional challenge.
- The firm powers success through trust, respect, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to quality.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to equal opportunities in employment.
- Equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.
- This includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
- Seeks to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.
- The firm's policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available on request.
