Herbert Smith Freehills
Solicitor, Disputes (Digital Legal Delivery) 12 Month FTC
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Senior Solicitor – Digital Disputes & Legal Delivery
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where ambition is shaped to help clients achieve their goals. Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence define us. For over 170 years, we’ve clinically embedded ourselves in the markets where you need us—across the world’s largest jurisdictions, key financial centres, and growth hubs.
As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we specialise in demanding litigation, complex public/private transactions, and regulated work. We stand apart in sectors like energy, infrastructure, and resources, while innovating at the intersection of law, digitalisation, emerging technologies, and strategic growth.
By championing our people, we remain agile, effective, and capable of delivering complexity—not just strategically but alongside you on your most pressing challenges.
The Opportunity
About Digital Legal Delivery
Digitisation isn’t just a necessity—it’s reshaping industries, enabling unprecedented efficiencies. Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer maîtrise both the pace and potential of these changes.
Our Digital Legal Delivery (Digital) practice delivers differentiated value through bespoke expertise: insights, process design, technology, project management—all fused with retro-analytical legal expertise. Bespoke for businesses at the forefront of digital transformation.
This practice supports those seeking to eliminate inefficiencies from legal delivery or adopt innovative solutions for streamlined transactions, litigation, and data-intensive mandates.
We lead by investing early in scalable technology today, scanning legal horizons tomorrow, while ensuring mandates are handled with the practical agility required by an ever-evolving enterprise model.
Key Teams Within Digital Legal Delivery
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Helping redefine firm-wide legal delivery using innovative, industry-specific expertise.
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- Longż precedence in disrupting how legal work’s delivered
- Excellence in document review, volume disputes, contract pooling, remediation
- Deep sectoral knowledge applied with law, design, and tech for clients
- Driving efficiencies at scale with data-led digitalisation
Legal Technology
Deploying our leading-edge capability in-house to streamline outcomes across disputes, projects, and transactions.
- Retail and custom tech for automation and data analysis
- eDiscovery and enterprise-wide document management
- Collaborative tech workflows for complex matters
Advisory
Supporting clients to adapt their legal operations across growth hubs.
- Strategic clarity in legal operations, emerging technology solutions
- Advisory across industry to reimagine working models
The Role
You’ll partner as a qualified solicitor in a multidisciplinary team of managers, senior solicitors, trainee solicitors and analysts, for one of our standout groups: Digital Disputes. Note that travel, including short treks or client trips, may be necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conducting high-volume document review, analysis, or PQE-targeted fee-earning work (expecting ~typical daily chargeable hours).
- Ensuring Quality Control in outputs (consistent high standards of precision, clarity, and application).
- Initiating cross-cultural collaboration with HSF Kramer’s global practice teams for seamless fulfilment of mandates.
- Where appropriate, supervising lawyers in training or analysts for complex projects (aligned by managing partners/seniors).
- Maintaining proactive subject mastery in areas key to the group.
- Scaffolded compliance obligations on matters (proficient financial/time recording).
- Overage where exceptional engagement (within due bounds) elevates client impact.
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Requirements
Qualifications & Skills
- Mandatory:
- Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales/Northern Ireland. (Republic of Ireland/Commonwealth jurisdictions will be considered*)
- Minimum 2+ PQE (*12+ months litigation/disputes experience ideal; 3+ PQE is preferred).
- Curiosity or proficiency in AI / emerging tech applications to law.
- Desired:
- Private practice experience (commercial environment preferable).
- Direct exposure to high-volume macro-mandates (e.g., document review project end-to-end).
Placement & Culture
Working Pattern: Full-time Location: London Contract Type: Fixed-term
Why Join Us?
⭐ Where credits meet opportunities: ** drukher real FTA value.* In an industry that still privileges experience over innovation, not at Herbert Smith Freehills Freehills. We’re sincerely dedicated to empowering inclusive growth—because diversity redefines not just your ambitions, but ours.
As a Firm where reputation and value shape ambition, we:
- Align your career challenges with ours
- Invest in personal/professional development (high-quality support and strategically integrated training).
- Build ambition collectivistically—your growth delivers ours.
You join vibrant teams recognised for boldness, dynamic solutions, and magnified impact.
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At HSF, your ambition—and our collaboration in chasing goals—reward future success. You’ll be part of shaping what soon-to-be exceptional marks yet to be written.
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