Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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.

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.

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.

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.