Jobs at CMS

Advise leading insurers and reinsurers on complex first-party insurance coverage matters and related disputes, especially across construction CAR/EAR, property, energy, and renewables. Handle international litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and adjudication. Manage significant matters, provide strategic and commercially focused advice, maintain client relationships, and contribute to business development and team growth.

Supports legal matters and internal projects using legal project management principles. Responsibilities include planning and tracking timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and KPIs; preparing financial reports; improving processes and workflows; promoting legal technology and LPM tools; delivering training; and communicating with lawyers, business teams, and senior stakeholders. The role also provides data-driven insights, supports change initiatives, and identifies efficiency and cost-saving opportunities across legal service delivery.

Supports finance business partners with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, reporting, profitability analysis, dashboards, and strategic decision support. The role prepares management presentations, maintains monthly reporting packs, ensures financial data integrity, supports partner and fee-earner queries, contributes to financial education, and identifies process improvements across finance systems and models.

Advise pension scheme trustees and employers on defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, derisking solutions, master trusts, innovative structures, and pensions litigation. The role involves high-quality advisory work, client relationship management, business development, and continued development within a leading pensions practice.

Provides legal advice on infrastructure projects across procurement, construction, financing, operations, contract expiry, distressed projects, and contractual disputes. Works with public and private sector clients, infrastructure funds, asset managers, and contractors to negotiate contracts, manage portfolio changes, and prepare settlement documentation. The role requires a qualified solicitor with at least three years’ post-qualification experience.

Lead legal operations initiatives supporting a practice group, including legal project and matter management, process improvement, change adoption, data and financial analysis, technology and AI-enabled workflow design, training, and client solutions. The role requires strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, project management, process-mapping, analytical, and legal technology skills.

Manage day-to-day secretarial staff and workflow for a practice group, deliver PA/operational support to Practice Group leaders, oversee mentoring, recruitment/induction, performance management, Workday leave/absence processes, quality checks, and lead continuous improvement and adoption of new processes and AI-driven tools.

Join a busy Insurance & Reinsurance team handling high-value coverage and defence matters for insurers and reinsurers. Work includes professional indemnity, FI/D&O, complex policy coverage, cyber breach response, and emerging claim classes. Client-facing role offering commercial advice, drafting, project management, and opportunities to specialise or maintain breadth while developing client relationships and market contacts.

Lead and manage the Risk team: oversee inbox and analysts, handle escalations and complex compliance queries, supervise recruitment and training, resolve conflicts, advise on client terms, run audits/investigations, manage data protection issues and client file requests, maintain policies/processes, and lead strategic risk projects.