Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Pensions associate advising employers, trustees, financial institutions, intermediaries, government bodies, and other clients on occupational and personal pension arrangements. Responsibilities include drafting documentation, advising on scheme operations, funding deficits, risk management, reorganisations, mergers, wind-ups, regulatory matters, transactions, litigation, and insolvency. The role requires delivering commercially practical legal advice, managing client relationships, supporting business development, and mentoring junior colleagues.

Provides high-level executive and office operations support to a leadership team in a global law firm. Responsibilities include complex diary and meeting management, communications, governance and reporting, budget tracking, risk and compliance coordination, business planning, records management, stakeholder engagement, process improvement, and project coordination. The role requires discretion, strong organization, sound judgment, advanced Microsoft Office skills, and experience supporting senior leaders in a professional services environment.

Own recurring and ad hoc commercial finance reporting for UK and EMEA practice groups. Analyze client and matter profitability, reconcile financial data, maintain financial models, support budgeting and variance analysis, and provide partners with actionable financial insights. Manage finance queries, improve reporting processes, assist users with financial systems, and apply approved AI and automation tools while protecting confidential information.

Lead and manage debt capital markets transactional and advisory matters, including drafting, negotiation, client relationship management, budgeting, delegation, supervision, business development, and compliance. The role also involves supporting firm initiatives, developing team members, preparing training and know-how materials, and contributing to billing, engagement, and client acceptance processes.

Develops and implements global internal communications strategies supporting firm-wide transformation, integration, culture, people initiatives, and business priorities. Advises senior stakeholders, creates executive and employee communications, manages campaigns across time zones, improves communication channels, coordinates internal and external messaging, analyzes engagement effectiveness, and manages external suppliers. Requires exceptional writing, editing, judgment, stakeholder influence, and strategic planning skills.

Resolves complex legal and commercial conflicts, conducts client and transaction conflict checks, advises partners and staff, manages sanctions compliance and information barriers, and supports global conflict workflows. Supervises team administration, delivers training, handles trade securities dealing requests, contributes to NBI software and process development, and leads strategic implementation projects.

Supports global partner finance by preparing partner remuneration payments, administering partner capital, producing cashflow forecasts, completing reconciliations and reports, processing recharges and ad-hoc payments, maintaining Workday information, assisting with year-end activities, responding to audits, and coordinating with finance and tax stakeholders. The role also supervises a finance assistant and supports accurate, timely financial information for partners and management.

Junior disputes lawyer handling commercial and competition litigation, including class actions, across sectors such as technology, energy, defense, and aviation. Responsibilities include supporting senior lawyers, leading matters where appropriate, managing client relationships, delegating work, overseeing billing and budgets, addressing technical legal issues, mentoring juniors, supporting business development, and complying with professional and firm requirements.

Provide competition, regulatory, and trade legal advice; plan and delegate work; manage client relationships; draft and negotiate complex legal documents; support business development and firm initiatives; comply with professional and risk requirements; and manage legal project budgets and profitability.

Supports the global Data Privacy team with privacy governance, risk assessments, data protection impact assessments, compliance monitoring, audits, documentation, data subject rights requests, privacy education, incident response, and business advice. The role manages stakeholder relationships, supports supplier due diligence and agreements, monitors global privacy laws, and helps maintain the firm’s privacy management framework. It is governance, risk, and compliance-focused rather than technical.

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.