Intellectual Property Solicitor - Legal 500 - Lancashire
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, Lancashire
- Salary
- £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
- Closing date
- 3 Apr 2019
- Reference
- BBBH16516
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- Practice area
- Intellectual property
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years+
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
A leading Lancashire law firm are looking for a IP Solicitor to join their highly regarded IP team.
The firm are Legal 500 listed and highly respected nationally across a multitude of sectors. Their IP department is one of the most respected divisions in the North West and there is an opening for a talented IP specialist to join their team.
The right candidate will be a Solicitor who has worked in a recognised IP team at either a large regional or Legal 500 firm. The work is high quality with a blue-chip client base including FTSE 100 national and international clients. A large proportion of the client base comes from the design and manufacturing sectors.
The role will cover both contentious and non-contentious IP work, and you will be helping clients protect, exploit and develop their brand and ideas. You will provide a variety of services including patent advice, copyright, design, trade-marks, domain name creation, JVA's, enforcement and exploitation.
There is a real team togetherness with this firm and clients care is high on the firms agenda, so work is completed in the best possible manner, rather than in the quickest time.
Salary level will be based on PQE level however will exceed £50,000+ for experienced candidates with a genuine high quality IP background.
Company
QED
An acronym of the latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum which translates as "thus it is demonstrated" or "that which was to be demonstrated". It is most often used as an annotation at the end of a complex mathematical, scientific or philosophical argument to show that the author had proven what he had set out to prove. In recent times it has also been translated as "Quite Easily Done".
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your firm or your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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