Associate
ACS are now recruiting an Associate to work within the Commercial Department of a leading law firm based in Liverpool.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave
- Birthday privilege day
- Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy and sell and carryover scheme
- Charity volunteering days
- Smart working
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent health insurance
- Health cash plan
- Maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, special leave
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day
- Training opportunities
Essential:
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure
- Experience of providing the full range of intellectual property advisory services in private legal practice
- Adherence to guidelines and procedures
- Experience of drafting and negotiating IP and commercial contracts and documentation
- An understanding of clients’ needs and expectations
- Excellence in service quality (service delivery and quality of services provided), through technical and service excellence
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Attention to detail and ability to get a grip of the wider commercial issues
- Excellent legal and commercial research skills
- Ability to play a proactive part in business development activity
Key responsibilities
- intellectual property audit reviews
- commercial agreements
- Specialist intellectual property advice
- intellectual property due diligence and general corporate support
- intellectual property commercialisation strategies
- intellectual property contracts including licensing, sponsorship agreements, merchandising agreements, royalty agreements, and assignments
- infringement opinions and litigation support
