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About the Role

This is an opportunity to make a real difference to the law in England and Wales, leading a team of specialist law reformers working on challenging and high-profile law reform. You will be someone who can manage both detail and the bigger picture, taking people with you to drive delivery of a complex and varied programme of law reform work. Law Reform Team Managers hold a key leadership role at the Law Commission and are essential in the delivery of our high-profile law reform work. We are looking for a talented new leader of our Commercial and Common Law Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Law Commissioner, Professor Solène Rowan, across all the team’s law reform projects. The postholder will work closely with the Law Commissioner and CEOs in the leadership and management of the team and its work, delivering law reform for the benefit of the public.

Responsibilities

Oversee a complex set of law reform projects, with varying timelines and to budget, in the context of Ministerial and stakeholder interest.
Ensure high-quality delivery that accounts for the Law Commission’s independence, commitment to integrity and quality, staff wellbeing, and prioritization.
Strengthen and develop a culture to use evidence, data, and information iteratively and innovatively to steer law reform development and delivery.
Recruit and motivate a team of expert and specialist lawyers and researchers.
Provide advice, challenge, and expertise to lawyers, staff, and the Commissioner on law reform practice, including legal policy analysis, stakeholder relations, Parliamentary handling, financial planning, and negotiations for new projects.
Engage with CEOs and be a member of the Law Commission’s Senior Management Team to support a high-performing organization and deliver high-quality law reform.
Lead a team of approximately 12 staff, with direct line management of Grade 7 Law Reform Lawyers and overall responsibility for the leadership, management, and development of the wider team.
Use programme and project management expertise and an authentic leadership style to plan and execute a programme of law reform projects.
Work with the Commercial and Common Law Commissioner to set the direction and deliver projects.
Provide and coach the team to provide high-quality advice and support to Law Commissioners, the Chair, CEOs, and as appropriate, Government Ministers and Parliamentarians.
Proactively engage with stakeholders inside and outside Government.
Lead innovation in communication methods with stakeholders and the public, working closely with the Head of Communications.
Oversee lawyers in the team instructing Parliamentary Counsel to draft legislation.
Lead a culture of using data and evidence to inform law reform recommendations, drawing on a wide range of sources, and work with the Law Commission’s Economist to develop impact assessments.
Work with the Commercial and Common Law Commissioner and the wider team to identify opportunities for future law reform projects, negotiating with Government departments and setting the team's direction.
Build an inclusive and diverse team of law reformers with a clear sense of purpose and the necessary skills and tools.
Act as a leader and role model, supporting and encouraging the sharing of knowledge, skills, and best practice.
Contribute to the running and corporate well-being of the Commission, making thoughtful and collective decisions as part of the Senior Management Team.
Support the CEOs and others in the strategic leadership of the organisation.
Support the team in balancing project demands with their own corporate contributions to the Commission, enabling personal development and meeting organizational needs, including supporting international engagement.

Requirements

Must be a solicitor, barrister, or Chartered Legal Executive qualified to practise in England and Wales, or hold a degree demonstrating comparable legal ability (e.g., overseas professionally qualified lawyer, legal academic, or legal policy expert).
Inclusive leadership skills, including the ability to lead a diverse team across multiple deliverables.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and confidence, with the ability to build and maintain relationships across the Commission, Government, and externally.
Ability to bring strategic thinking to complex law reform projects, exercising sound judgment and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Strong and clear communication skills, providing evidenced advice and briefing on complex policy areas to Law Commissioners, senior stakeholders, and Ministers.
Advanced writing skills necessary to support the team’s delivery of lengthy legal publications.
Ability to use project and programme management skills in an environment where priorities may change.
Experience at a senior level of private law, particularly commercial, chancery, or common law matters (desirable).
Experience of law reform (whether in England and Wales or elsewhere) (desirable).

Skills

Programme and project management expertise
Authentic leadership style
High-quality advice and support
Stakeholder engagement
Innovation in communication
Data and evidence utilization
Impact assessment development
Negotiation
Inclusive team building
Knowledge sharing
Strategic leadership
Legal policy analysis
Legislative drafting support
Financial planning
Advanced writing skills

Location

102 Petty France, London

Work Type

Full Time
Part Time
Job Share
Flexible Working
Hybrid Working

Experience Level

Grade 6
Senior level experience in private law (desirable)

Education Level

Solicitor, Barrister, or Chartered Legal Executive qualified to practise in England and Wales
Degree holder with comparable legal ability

Salary/Compensations

£75,674 - £85,257

Benefits

Annual leave: 25 days on appointment, increasing to 30 days after five years’ service.
Scheme to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
Choice of Civil Service pension schemes.
Extensive training and development opportunities.
Opportunity to join employee-run networks (minority ethnic origin, disabilities, caring responsibilities, women, LGBT).
Family Friendly policies (reduced hours, job share).
Access to flexible benefits (voluntary benefits, retail vouchers, discounts).
Paid paternity, adoption, and maternity leave.
Free annual sight tests for computer screen users.

About the Company

The Law Commission is the statutory body set up under the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed.
It has a judicial Chair, four Commissioners, and around 80 members of staff.
Its work is organised into four areas: Commercial and Common Law; Criminal Law; Property, Family and Trust Law; and Public Law and the Law in Wales.
It operates as an independent non-departmental body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice.
The Law Commission offers an unrivalled opportunity to work on some of the most complex legal and policy questions facing our society.
It offers stretching, high-quality work, and the chance to make a positive difference to our society.
The Commission has, for 60 years, had a unique role – independent, but at the heart of Government.
Its aims are to ensure the law is fair, modern, simple, and cost-effective; conduct research and consultations for recommendations to Parliament; and codify the law, eliminate anomalies, repeal obsolete enactments, and reduce the number of separate statutes.
Much of our work is high-profile and secures significant interest from MPs, the public, and the media.
Over the past half century, more than two-thirds of our recommendations have been implemented in whole or in part.
We recruit brilliant, innovative, and creative legal staff from a wide range of backgrounds.
Lawyers at the Law Commission engage in policy making, legislative procedure, project management, and leadership.
They examine legal and policy issues from every angle, engage closely with a huge range of stakeholders, draft consultation papers and reports, and work with Government officials to advance work in Parliament.
The Commercial and Common Law team undertakes projects that cover a wide range of issues impacting individuals, businesses, and wider society.
Recent recommendations have led to laws on crypto-assets, digital assets, arbitration, electronic trade documents, and consumer savings clubs.
Ongoing and future areas of focus include product liability, trust law arbitration, consumer class actions, the law of deeds, and objects in museum collections.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows.
The MoJ offers a flexible working system in many offices.
Standard full-time working hours are 37 hours per week.
MoJ welcomes part-time, flexible, and job-sharing working patterns.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice.
We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.
We are committed to treating people openly and with respect.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of their ethnic origin, religious belief, gender, sexuality, disability, marital status, age, and race.
As a Disability Confident employer, MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent, and abilities, by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace.
MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
A Great Place to Work for Veterans: includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria.
Redeployment Interview Scheme: committed to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.