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IT/Project lawyers (from 1 year PQE), London

A Pinsent Masons job vacancy

Introduction

Pinsent Masons is an international law firm with over 280 partners and a total of 1000 lawyers world-wide, providing a full range of corporate and commercial services. The firm ranks amongst the top 100 global law firms.

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit IT/Project lawyers who have from 1 year+ post qualification experience to join our London Outsourcing, Technology & Commercial Group.

Background

Pinsent Masons has one of the leading and most established outsourcing, technology & commercial law practices in the UK. With a team of 17 partners and 53 additional fee-earners, across a network of offices nationwide, our substantial practice provides both commercial and contentious services. Pinsent Masons provides a full range of advice and guidance, including in relation to: outsourcing, e-business, IT product and services contracts, commercial contracts, Freedom of Information, intellectual property, technology, IT and telecoms disputes, data protection and privacy and media.

Our specialist teams acts for both suppliers and users within the industry/sector, with a focus on SMEs as well as on major organisations. We also undertake a substantial amount of work for the public sector. Our clients are able to benefit further from a number of value added services based around OUT-LAW.COM, our IT and e-commerce website.

Pinsent Masons has one of the largest and most experienced outsourcing teams of any UK law firm. Our expertise in drafting and negotiating service contracts has extended beyond pure technology projects and now includes property outsourcing and business process outsourcing.

Our specialist team advise both suppliers and users of systems and facilities from the very earliest stage of an outsourcing project through to re-negotiation and re-competition several years down the line. We offer a complete advisory service which covers procurement structures, contract drafting and negotiating, the transfer of employees and advice on funding and tax issues. Where appropriate we also assist on the creation of special purpose vehicles to deal with funding complexities. Outsourcing projects can sometimes run into difficulties. In these cases we offer complete project support and dispute resolution services.

Our public sector expertise includes advising on traditional outsourcings and Public Private Partnerships in central and local government, as well as projects in the health and defence sectors. Our private sector credentials span both the supplier and user market in the finance, insurance, aerospace, retail, manufacturing, energy, construction and pharmaceutical sectors.

The candidate required

The successful candidates will ideally have gained experience in a City firm or large regional practice. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and passionate about business development. They will be a team player with a strong client focussed approach. They will also have a strong academic background and excellent communication and organisational skills.

Examples of recent work

Fujitsu Services – advising on the DDS "Accord" Project, a complex PFI procurement project which involved the negotiation of an overarching contract and also the procurement of telecoms network services for a sub-project.
Fujitsu Services – acting in the re-negotiation of an agreement with the DSS and Post Office under which the contract with the DSS was terminated and the contract proceeded with Post Office Counters for the roll-out of its information system to all post offices in the UK.
Department of Health – advising the Department and the NHS Shared Services Taskforce in relation to its £350m PFI/PPP outsourcing of payroll and HR services (the National Electronic Staff Records Project) – the largest outsourcing of its kind in Europe with 1.2m employee records.
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – advising on the outsourcing of its IT systems under an enabling contract which permits Government Departments to opt in to the contract. The 10 year contract, awarded to IBM, includes a significant element of transformation and transfer to IBM of a number of high value application development projects.
Diageo – advising in connection with the global outsourcing of its IT systems, involving the transfer of 2,000 staff across a variety of functions including HR and Finance.
AOL – drafting a range of contracts including network agreements, content agreements, advising in relation to the procurement of anti-virus and firewall software, and the procurement of call-centre solutions.
Amazon.co.uk – advising in connection with its information flow strategy in relation to privacy policy on website and overseas data protection legislation.

See PinsentMasons.com to learn more about the firm behind OUT-LAW.COM and its Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial team.