Commercial Law/ Contract

Commercial solicitors usually find that there are many career routes open to them. Working in-house either as sole counsel or within a team can bring with it the opportunity to specialize or cover a more broad area of commercial law. National commercial firms often offer a constant flow of challenging work often from blue chip clients and smaller commercial firms often have a very varied client base ranging from smaller companies to much larger companies.

During 2009 and early 2010 many private practice were seconding lawyers into In House roles with their clients – this worked for both parties with practices potentially reducing the number of redundancies they may otherwise have had to consider and with companies benefitting from having a cheaper resource at a time when finances were under scrutiny but there was still considerable work pressure on the In House teams.

Some of these seconded lawyers ultimately had the opportunity to remain within these roles on a permanent basis and this considerably impacted upon the number of Commercial In House opportunities that we acted upon by recruiters. This has filtered through now and the previous status quo has returned with demand for Commercial Lawyers really picking up since 2010.

We are now seeing this increase in demand being replicated across practice as well with instructions across the full range of levels – Solicitor, Associate and Partner – particularly within national and strong mid tier firms for both general and more specific roles (in particular areas such as Information Technology and Competition Law).

If you are considering the options available to you it is essential to get advice from people who can give a detailed insight into the market, with dedicated in-house and private practice teams, years of experience and an unrivalled client base Sacco Mann can provide comprehensive advice whichever way you want to take your career

For a discussion regarding commercial property law recruitment in confidence please contact our specialist legal recruitment team on 0113 245 3338 or 0161 831 6890. Alternatively email us with your CV or fill in our contact us form and we will contact you to arrange a more suitable time for a discussion.