Are you the Commercial Lawyer we’ve been looking for?

About

At Swinburne Maddison LLP, we’ve been setting the standard for legal excellence for over 25 years. Nestled on the outskirts of Durham City Centre, our award-winning North East law firm boasts an impressive roster of clients and a prestigious history that dates back to the merger of two distinguished firms in 1998. Today, we’re proud to be recognised as a leading law firm within the region having been named as a leading firm by The Legal 500 for seven consecutive years.

Our journey has been remarkable, evolving from a team of 15 solicitors and 25 support staff to a formidable force of over 80 professionals. We’re not just another law firm—we’re a dynamic, agile, and approachable team committed to delivering the best possible legal solutions to our clients. Our core values of Trust, Care, Collaboration, and Agility guide everything we do, ensuring we build lasting relationships and deliver tailored, jargon-free advice.

We have ambitions plans for the coming years and we are on the hunt for a Commercial Lawyer to join our growing and talented Corporate and Commercial team.

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Follow the link below and attach a CV and a short covering letter ensuring to clearly detail how you meet our required experience, skills and attributes. We will be looking to interview on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged.

The role

You will be joining a busy and growing Corporate and Commercial team, working on complex projects regionally, nationally and on a cross-border basis.

You will be advising on a range of complex and high-value commercial transactions with many in the technology sector.  Your role will cover intellectual property exploitation (including software development and software licensing), data protection and procurement, franchising together with assignments of a more general nature including terms of online and offline business, general contractual arrangements, distribution and agency.

The team provides advice to businesses of all sizes including start-ups, established SME enterprises, public limited companies and large public sector organisations.

The successful candidate will be asked to assist in leading the development and growth of the commercial services line within the firm, providing an excellent opportunity for career progression and development within what is one of the fastest growing firms in the region.

Who we are looking for…

We are looking for a lawyer with upwards of 5+ PQE working at commercial law firm and who has experience in providing commercial advice regarding the services listed above.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience advising technology focussed businesses.

The main attributes we look for, but will not be limited to, are:

  • being pro-active in terms of managing your workload and continual development of your own legal skills
  • possessing excellent organisational skills
  • possessing excellent drafting skills
  • demonstrating exceptional attention to detail
  • demonstrating strong communication skills and an ability to work and build relationships with colleagues, clients and
  • the wider professional community; and
  • an ability to supervise and train junior members of the team.

An existing professional network is desirable but not necessary, as many opportunities will be available to the successful candidate when in the role.

Ready to make your move?

To apply for this role please attach a CV and a short covering letter ensuring to clearly detail how you meet our required experience, skills and attributes. We will be looking to interview on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 28th February 2025

Vacancy information

Location: Durham

Job type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time/Part-time

Salary: Competitive

Swinburne Maddison wouldn’t be the firm it is today without our team. We are committed to providing opportunities for all employees, whether they’ve been with us since day one or are new to our exciting journey ahead. As we’ve grown, we have invested heavily in our team through comprehensive training and support, ensuring a safe and modern work environment. We offer detailed career paths for colleagues who wish to progress, whether they are lawyers or part of our dedicated support team.

Whilst we boast impressive accreditations such as Investors in People and Lexcel, we are constantly evolving to ensure that our culture ensures our firm remains a place colleagues can thrive and ensuring our team feel valued.

We offer a number of benefits for our team including:

  • a competitive salary, in line with experience;
  • a published career path available for those looking to progress;
  • a hybrid-working and flexi-time scheme
  • an attractive non-contractual bonus scheme
  • pension and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
  • additional holiday scheme for length of service
  • additional holiday purchase scheme
  • death in service benefit;
  • enhanced family leave pay;
  • health cashback plan;
  • a generous contribution to the staff pension scheme;
  • membership of Perkbox;

At Swinburne Maddison we are proud of our teams’ achievements across the firm. Whether we are recognised as a firm, team specific awards or individual recognition.

In 2023, we were proud to be announced as the winner of Law Firm of the Year at the Northern Law Awards, an honour we also received in 2017. Over nine of our teams are ranked in The Legal 500, with four achieving top-tier rankings including Corporate & Commercial Property, Commercial Litigation, and Social Housing, with 19 individuals named for their achievements.

In The Legal 500 2024 edition, two of our Corporate partners have been named as Leading Individuals and another as a Next Generation Partner.

The team also consistently ranks within the top 10 by Experian Market IQ for M&A activity based on deal volume highlighting the high calibre of work we are actively working on.

In 2022, we were honoured with the Deal of the Year award at the North East Dealmakers.

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