The role
We are looking for a newly qualified solicitor to join our team in Belfast.
If you’ve decided you’re a commercial litigator during your training contract, or if you’ve qualified into this practice area, we can offer a strong platform for your career and a broad caseload of matters, with a particular focus on financial services litigation and restructuring and insolvency. The team acts for some of the largest UK lenders and insolvency practitioners and is regularly instructed on complex disputes in this space.
We’re looking for someone with an enthusiastic approach, a strong work ethic and a team player.
Why Join Us?
- National Reach, Local Strength: Our LRC team spans all UK jurisdictions and is regularly instructed on international litigation and cross-jurisdictional disputes.
- Diverse and High-Profile Work: You’ll advise our impressive client base on all aspects of financial services litigation and dispute resolution and restructuring and insolvency across sectors such as financial services, technology and real estate.
- Specialist Support: The LRC team in Northern Ireland includes experts in financial services litigation, restructuring and insolvency, commercial disputes, real-estate litigation, professional negligence, with access to specialists in insurance, financial regulation and competition across Shoosmiths’ other offices, offering a collaborative and knowledge-rich environment.
- Culture & Flexibility: We offer a genuinely supportive and inclusive culture, with hybrid working, national collaboration, and a strong emphasis on wellbeing and development.
The team
Shoosmiths is investing heavily in its litigation practice, with a clear 2030 vision to be a pre-eminent firm across the UK for contentious work.
Our LRC team advises corporate clients on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution across a range of key sectors,. With litigators in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as across England we cover all UK jurisdictions, and are regularly instructed on international litigation and disputes.
The Dispute Resolution team in Shoosmiths’ Belfast office is part of a nationally recognised practice known for its strategic and commercially focused approach to litigation. The team advises on a broad spectrum of disputes, with a particular focus on financial services litigation, insolvency, debt enforcement, professional negligence and real estate litigation. With a strong client base across sectors such as technology, automotive, and real estate, the team is praised for its agility, sound judgment, and commitment to delivering practical, commercial solutions. The Belfast office plays a key role in supporting the firm’s UK-wide dispute resolution offering, providing opportunities to work on high-quality cases for blue chip clients in a collaborative and dynamic environment.
The firm
Shoosmiths is the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters. From offices across the UK and Brussels, we support some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact. We empower our people to be their authentic selves and deliver together in supportive teams committed to excellence and innovation. The first top 50 law firm to achieve ‘Platinum Standard’ Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm.
We have an outstanding benefits package to complement our competitive remuneration system. In addition to the competitive salaries, great working environment and high-quality work, we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
To discover more about our benefits, please visit: Benefits Package
Equal opportunities
Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well-being. Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.
This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
