Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Mid-level insurance litigation associate handling coverage disputes, contentious regulatory matters and professional negligence claims. Manage and deliver discrete legal work, draft and negotiate documents, support senior lawyers, delegate and mentor juniors, manage billing, and build client relationships while contributing to business development and firm initiatives.

Supports new business intake and matter management by opening clients and matters, generating matter numbers, setting up eBilling, monitoring regulatory and billing compliance, processing updates, answering internal inquiries, coordinating with global teams, and supporting process improvements and ad hoc projects.

Provides general HR support through the AskHR helpdesk, including employee lifecycle administration, personnel record maintenance, onboarding, parental leave, payroll submissions, absence monitoring, employee relations support, HR reporting, inductions, performance reviews, and SRA practicing certificate renewals.

Manage complex employee relations cases across the UK and EMEA, advising leaders on disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence, redundancy, investigations, settlements, and employment compliance. Develop ER policies and guidance, support organizational change, coordinate training, monitor case trends, manage psychosocial risk, and contribute to cross-border HR projects. Partner with HR, legal, business leaders, and external representatives while ensuring consistent, legally compliant outcomes.

Prepare UK tax returns and partnership tax calculations for partners, spouses, retired partners, and consultants in the UK and overseas. Advise on income tax, capital gains, pensions, and non-UK residence matters; respond to partners, HMRC, and third parties; maintain accurate records; and support managers and wider team projects. The role requires CTA qualification, at least three years of personal or partnership tax experience, strong Excel skills, analytical ability, and strict confidentiality.

Senior Workday subject matter expert responsible for designing, configuring, testing, and delivering complex People Technology enhancements and projects. The role leads solution architecture, stakeholder engagement, reporting, security, governance, troubleshooting, release evaluation, and roadmap development. It also mentors team members, develops user guidance, and supports Workday optimization across Core HCM, Recruitment, and additional modules.

Reviews, tracks, validates, and archives client engagement letters and terms across active matters. The role coordinates with lawyers, partners, business development, finance, and matter teams; identifies missing, expired, unsigned, or non-compliant documentation; checks bespoke provisions against standard terms; maintains matter registers and repositories; supports audits; and confirms engagement documentation is complete before billing.

Manage global conflict checks and advise partners on conflicts, information barriers, reputational/sanctions/financial crime risks, and matter risk assessments. Liaise with Financial Crime and international teams, contribute to team development, and help optimise conflicts technology and processes.

Manage global resource allocation for a corporate legal practice, balancing client needs, profitability, employee development, wellbeing, and utilization. Advise partners and staff on work allocation, monitor capacity and pipeline demand, support mobility and alternative talent pools, provide utilization insights, and help embed resource management processes and technology. Build trusted stakeholder relationships, support culture change, and contribute to the firm’s resource management strategy.

Supports Workday and related People systems administration, first-line query resolution, cyclical data tasks, audits, documentation, testing, and system change validation. The role maintains data quality, manages incidents and service requests, coordinates with IT teams on downstream impacts, and handles sensitive HR data in accordance with governance requirements.

Manage global conflict checks for new clients and matters, applying US conflicts rules and drafting conflict waivers. Analyze legal, commercial, reputational, sanctions, financial crime, and information barrier risks; advise partners and lawyers; consult on complex ethical issues; coordinate with financial crime and global conflicts teams; and contribute to conflicts technology and process improvements.

Provide legal advice on data and technology matters, develop and implement data policies (retention, deletion, storage), prepare guidance and training, advise on cross-jurisdictional data/privacy law issues, support practice groups and business services, and work with the AI Governance team to create standards and processes for data use in AI systems.

Lead and manage contentious competition litigation matters including defending damages claims in the High Court and CAT, coordinate multi‑jurisdictional responses, supervise junior lawyers, develop client relationships, manage billing and contribute to firm initiatives and training.

Provide support on competition disputes and contentious matters, particularly private enforcement in High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal. Assist in defending damages actions, manage multi-jurisdictional claims, liaise with clients, supervise juniors, contribute to business development, and ensure compliance with firm risk and billing processes.

Provide AML/CTF and sanctions advisory to practice groups, escalate and resolve complex sanctions and unusual activity matters, develop and implement financial crime policies and controls, perform risk assessments and remediation, support regulatory enquiries, audits and stakeholder consultations, and maintain audit‑ready records.