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This is a Top 100 national law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London. The firm advises businesses across construction, energy & resource management, higher education and financial services, complementing the firm\'s market leadership within housing, local government and health & social care. They currently employ over 600 people, including over 90 Partners, and their award-winning teams provide construction, commercial, corporate, property, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal advice.
The Team
They have an opportunity for a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join their Information Law & Privacy Team. Their specialist team advises clients from all sectors on all aspects of information law and, due to an increase in workload, they are looking to expand. The management of information and Data Privacy is an increasingly important issue for clients and the legal and reputational issues are complex and intricate.
Working in a specialist team allows their lawyers to focus entirely on this area of law, ensuring they can provide the best quality advice to clients. The team work with a large number of public sector clients, (Local Authorities; Central Government Bodies; Registered Housing Providers; Third Sector/Charities and a number of Higher Education bodies/Universities) alongside providing regular advice to a range of clients, in the firms other markets including financial services; commercial services/corporates and independent/digital health providers.
Your new role
You will work with clients and advise them on a wide range of information law, data protection and privacy matters. Alongside working directly with clients, their team also works closely with a range of other internal departments to provide information law. Alongside taking a senior role in the management and delivery of advice, the role would involve providing supervision for junior members of the team. The role would suit a candidate interested in taking on responsibility for business development and raising the profile of the team, which in turn will provide opportunities for career progression to partner level. This is an incredibly exciting area of law and they are looking for lawyers who want to work to grow the team further. With privacy a real growth area, they consider that for the right candidate there would real opportunities for career progression.
The Ideal Candidate will have experience in the following areas:
- Data Protection
- Commercial Data Protection issues, including the drafting of commercial agreements, privacy notices and other GDPR documentation
- Advising on lawful basis
- Cross border GDPR issues
- Subject Access Requests
- Data breach advice and cyber security issues
- Information sharing
- GDPR compliance
- Compensation claims
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Environmental Information Regulations
- Common law duty of confidence
- Liaising with the Information Commissioner and Information Law Tribunal matters
- Policies and Protocols in relation to the above
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