Make a Real Impact
Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.
Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.
As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.
Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2024/25 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for a twelfth consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.
Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.
Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers
Our Litigation, Regulatory and Public Law team is a market leader in the health, social care, central and local government sectors and continues to grow its profile and client base in the financial services, commercial, and higher education sectors. The team sits within the Litigation, Advisory & Regulatory department which deals with substantial commercial, regulatory and public law disputes.
The team acts for public bodies such as local authorities, health trusts, regulators, oversight bodies, statutory bodies, higher education institutions and corporates including private and charity sector providers of public services.
In joining our growing team, you will have the opportunity to work for a number of the firm's key strategic clients and a range of partner leads and colleagues, across several of the firm's key sectors, whilst managing your own caseload. Given the nature of our clients, the cases on which we work regularly touch on live socio-economic or political issues whether that be within local government, health, higher education or financial services; often raising novel issues. We find that our work is highly rewarding as a result. We have strong and trusted partnerships with the clients we work with who genuinely value our support and tell us so.
The team wholeheartedly embrace hybrid working with each colleague having flexibility along with a willingness to work as one team. The firm has an exciting and ambitious new 5 year strategic growth plan, which means there is significant opportunity to support career progression for the right candidate.
The role
We are recruiting a NQ Solicitor to join our busy and diverse litigation, regulatory and pubic law team working for a range of public and private sector clients across all of our sectors. The role will focus on a mix of regulatory public law and civil litigation.
The successful candidate will be involved in:
- Advising regulatory bodies, across sectors including financial services, professional discipline and other sector and economic regulators, on the use of their regulatory powers, including handling appeals and public law challenges.
- Advising ombuds schemes on decision-making and handling complaints and challenges
- Advising public services providers, commissioners and regulators on their decision-making, including the risk of judicial review
- Handling judicial review claims in the High Court and appellate courts
- Supporting clients in responding to regulatory interventions
- Supporting clients engaging with public inquiries, including advice on disclosure obligations and responding to r9 requests/s21 notices.
- Advising all our clients on commercial disputes including claims in contract, tort and for fraud.
- Advising on corporate litigation including shareholder and partnership disputes, claims for breach of warranty and joint venture disputes.
What we are looking for from you
The successful applicant will possess the following skills, which are key to the role:
- Previous experience of acting for or an interest in public bodies
- Experience across some of all of the work types identified above
- Well organised with a keen eye for detail
- Strong communication skills, with a professional approach to work
- Confidence in working directly with clients and colleagues in other teams
- An interest in business development, and developing networking and client management skills
- An ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
- A team player with a keenness to work collaboratively with colleagues at junior and senior levels
- A practical and commercial, "can do" approach to problem solving
Work with approachable people
When we ask colleagues what makes Bevan Brittan a great place to work, the most popular thing they say is "the people". The overwhelming consensus is that we make time for each other. We welcome questions and support each other. Naturally, we look for new colleagues who align with our values.
Supported to be your best
Hybrid working
We operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients, teams and people. Our core business hours are 9am - 5:15pm Monday to Friday, but we're open to our people working more flexibly around those times and welcome a conversation with you if you have any questions about this. We try to offer you the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.
Learning, Development & Progression
We're committed to supporting your professional and personal development needs.This means that we offer a range of tailored training courses and you will have lots of opportunity to learn from those around you. We actively encourage progression and this is reflected in our annual review and promotion processes. You will be supported by your line manager to achieve your full potential.
Wellbeing
As a Bevan Brittan employee, you'll have access to a variety of services that support your wellbeing. We've pledged our commitment to The Mindful Business Charter and lots of our people contribute to our Wellbeing Responsible Business strand, which organises an annual calendar of wellbeing events and initiatives.
Benefits
- A minimum of 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days)
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Generous pension scheme
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- Biennial private health assessment through Nuffield Health
- Life assurance
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
Embracing our differences and valuing inclusion
Our shared aim is that everyone is welcome and can feel comfortable being themselves at Bevan Brittan. To support this, we actively value and promote equality, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do. You'll be empowered and supported through our employee led networks, diverse colleagues, and a broad range of firmwide initiatives.
Recognising the unique contributions that a diverse workforce can bring to our business, we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or have any questions, please get in touch with our recruitment team by emailing [email protected]
Acting responsibly, now and for the future
To us, being a responsible business is second nature; a core part of Bevan Brittan's identity. Our colleagues are heavily involved in shaping and delivering activity across the four pillars of our Responsible Business strategy : Community Engagement; Environmental Sustainability; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; and Wellbeing.
Our people deliver pro bono legal work for charities and not-for-profit organisations. We play an active role in our local communities and donated £100,000 across our four regional office charities last year. We are also proudly carbon neutral. We've achieved the UN's Climate Neutral Now accreditation and our environmental sustainability plan focuses on achieving our net zero carbon target by 2040.
Collectively, the four pillars ensure we look after our colleagues' wellbeing; offer an environment in which everyone can progress on merit, give something back to the communities in which we work; and protect the environment.
