Jobs at Pinsent Masons

Leads the technology strategy, architecture, governance, and delivery of Legal AI, knowledge management, and document management platforms. Defines roadmaps, integrates platforms with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, iManage, and enterprise systems, and ensures secure, scalable solutions. Partners with architecture, cybersecurity, engineering, data, vendors, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs and investment decisions.

Advise major clients on planning and infrastructure consenting for nationally significant energy, transport, water, and other projects. Responsibilities include Development Consent Order applications, compulsory acquisition, environmental impact and habitats assessments, inquiries, examinations, judicial review, client relationship management, business development, and collaboration across property, energy, and infrastructure teams.

Review, draft, and negotiate complex client-facing commercial, technology, and AI-related contracts. Provide practical legal advice, ensure regulatory and policy compliance, mitigate risks, support governance and General Counsel Office projects, and improve contracting processes through legal technology and contract-management tools. The role also involves people management, cross-firm collaboration, stakeholder influence, and contributing to commercial strategy.

Provides specialist costs advice across litigation and arbitration matters, including costs budgeting, costs management, bills of costs, points of dispute, detailed assessment proceedings, settlement negotiations, and costs recovery. Advises fee earners and clients, conducts legal research, monitors developments in costs law, delivers internal training, and supports the growth of the firm’s specialist costs practice.

Advise pension scheme trustees, employers, and other clients on complex pensions disputes, regulatory investigations, enforcement activity, remedial litigation, equalisation issues, scheme errors, and member complaints. The role involves collaborating across the pensions practice, managing matters proactively, developing client relationships, supporting business development, and contributing to the growth of a specialist pensions litigation team.

Lead and advise on large-scale technology procurements, outsourcing, cloud/SaaS, AI and digital transformation projects. Draft and negotiate complex technology and commercial contracts, manage multi-stakeholder, multi-jurisdictional matters, supervise junior lawyers, build client relationships, and support business development and market engagement.

Manage treasury operations including bank guarantees, cashflow, reconciliations, and reporting. Support global banking, AML/sanctions and tax reporting, account openings/mandates, audits, payment authorisations, international payroll, and treasury system/process improvements.