Associate Solicitor, Shipping - Newcastle

Large law firm seeks an Associate Solicitor to join its expanding shipping department in Newcastle. The department act for ship owners, charterers and operators, together with their insurers. Whilst several members of the team have sea-going experience, others have commercial experience gained in banks, insurance and oil trading so as well as shipping claims they also handle commercial and finance work.  

The team offers a full-service maritime law practice covering the full range of contentious (Admiralty and dry) and non-contentious shipping work and we are looking to recruit to cover primarily the wet area of the practice. 

The role will be to bring wet shipping experience to the team in order to service clients on a full service basis. However, the role is not exclusively "wet" and an ability to cover "dry" work and/or casualty investigation work is important. The team is focussed to an extent on oil & gas clients and developing of this work is important. An ability to supervise work amongst the junior members of the team is important. 

The successful candidate must have experience of wet/admiralty work however will be expected to provide general support to the Shipping team which will involve dry contentious shipping work. 

You will assist the Partners in leading the Shipping team, undertaking all aspects of work generation, client work and relationship management, business development and financial management. You will also undertake a vitally important role in terms of supervising and developing junior lawyers. 

Competitive salary and benefits package. 

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