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We’re growing our Dispute Resolution team at Field Seymour Parkes LLP and are looking for a talented solicitor with strong litigation experience to join us — either as a future partner or someone ready to step into that role now.

This is a key hire as part of succession planning within a well-established and highly regarded team.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re seeking someone with 4+ years’ PQE and a solid track record in commercial litigation. You may already be operating at partner level or be ready to take that next step in a team that will support and challenge you.

You’ll have experience in, or be willing to develop your ability to undertake, a broad mix of disputes, which may include:

• Shareholder and boardroom disputes
• Commercial contract claims
• Insolvency litigation
• Professional negligence
• Breach of warranty claims
• Post-termination restrictions
• IP and cross-border disputes
• Unfair prejudice petitions
• Injunctive relief
• International arbitration

You’ll work collaboratively on larger matters and take ownership of your own caseload, with the opportunity to develop your practice and client base further.

What You’ll Need

• Hard-working, commercially-minded, and solution-focused
• Able to handle (in line with your experience level) complex and high-value litigation
• Capable of working independently and mentoring others
• Willingness to engage in peer-to-peer discussions with senior colleagues
• A network of clients or referrers — or a proven track record in winning work

Who You’ll Work With

We advise a mix of large multinationals and ambitious SMEs. Examples of clients we can name publicly, include:

Volvo, Honda, ITA, Whistl, HR Wallingford, and SPP Pumps

Recent Work Highlights

• Acting for a former director in a $450m+ fiduciary duty dispute with administrators
• Professional negligence claim in the energy sector (~£1m)
• High-stakes contractual claim and counterclaim in the defence sector
• Cross-border dispute relating to breach of a JV agreement (~£66m claim)

Your Development at FSP

We’re committed to your personal and professional growth. Through our bespoke FSP Lawyer Framework, we support development across six key competencies, focusing not only on legal expertise but also on the broader skills required of a modern lawyer. We also offer funded formal training where appropriate, with genuine opportunities for progression.  If the successful candidate doesn’t join us as a partner, we will be committed to helping them achieve that goal.

What We Offer

• A genuinely collaborative and inclusive culture with a strong emphasis on work-life balance
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
• High-quality, engaging work with clear progression routes
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office per week)
• Core working hours for greater flexibility
• Full-time or part-time working
• Bright, modern offices in central Reading, just minutes from the train station

Ready to hear more?

If you’re looking for a role where your career can genuinely progress, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your CV detailing your experiences to date.

We’re growing our Commercial, IP & Technology team at Field Seymour Parkes LLP and are looking for a talented, experienced solicitor to join us – either as a future Partner or someone ready to step into that role now.

This is a key strategic hire to provide senior-level support to the Team Leader, to support the growth of the wider firm and to help shape the future of our Commercial Contracts practice.

If you have 4+ years’ PQE (or equivalent experience) and are looking for a role with clear career progression – including genuine partnership opportunities – this could be the ideal next move.

The Role

You will be working in our Commercial, IP and Technology team which forms part of our wider Business Services Team.

We’re looking for someone with broad experience across:

• Commercial contracts
• Intellectual property
• Data protection

We can also tailor the role to incorporate any specialisms or areas you’d like to develop further.

You’ll have the confidence and ability to manage your own caseload independently while also contributing to the growth and development of the team through mentoring and supervision.

What We’re Looking For

• A commercially-minded solicitor with a pragmatic, solution-focused approach
• Strong experience in commercial contracts, with complementary knowledge of IP and data protection
• Comfortable working with a wide range of clients, from start-ups to multinationals, across sectors (notably technology and automotive)
• Able to balance legal precision with real-world practicality – our clients value clarity, not just theory
• A proactive attitude to business development and relationship-building
• Willingness to support and supervise junior team members
• Someone who adapts their communication and service delivery to suit each client’s needs

Recent Work Highlights

• Advising an international technology supplier on a major public sector contract
• Helping a fast-growing medtech company build its legal infrastructure, including IP protection and MSAs
• Drafting and negotiating a €4.5m+ medical device distribution agreement across Europe
• Urgent advice on a high-stakes data protection breach involving sensitive financial data
• Preparing influencer and brand ambassador agreements with high-profile talent

Who We Work With

Our client base includes a diverse mix of major international brands and SMEs. Examples of clients we can name publicly, include:
Volvo, Honda, Whistl, HR Wallingford, North Tech, Clearway Group, Operational Solutions

Your Development at FSP

We’re committed to your personal and professional growth. Through our bespoke FSP Lawyer Framework, we support development across six key competencies, focusing not only on legal expertise but also on the broader skills required of a modern lawyer. We also offer funded formal training where appropriate, with genuine opportunities for progression.  If the successful candidate doesn’t join us as a partner, we will be committed to helping them achieve that goal.

What We Offer

• A genuinely collaborative and inclusive culture with a strong emphasis on work-life balance
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
• High-quality, engaging work with clear progression routes
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office per week)
• Core working hours for greater flexibility
• Full-time or part-time working
• Bright, modern offices in central Reading, just minutes from the train station

Ready to hear more?

If you’re looking for a role where your career can genuinely progress, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your CV detailing your experiences to date.

Our Real Estate team is the one of the largest in the South East outside of London and prides itself on providing City quality advice. Our exceptional lawyers handle a wide range of property transactions – including the acquisition and disposal of interests in real estate on individual sites and property portfolios, planning, environment and construction work, landlord and tenant matters and taxation and finance issues. As a paralegal in the team you’ll get great experience by assisting qualified lawyers across the transactional (non-contentious) teams. The role is more than simply helping them with administrative tasks, although some occasional admin work will be required. The majority of your time will be spent in client work including: reviewing and reporting on legal documents, undertaking research, preparing reports, drafting correspondence, undertaking company searches, client due diligence, on-line data room management, drafting and filing SDLT returns and assisting with (and, in time, managing) exchanges and completions on property transactions. You could find yourself working on any type of property work happening within the team. As your experience develops, you’ll have direct client contact and increasing responsibility.

We think it’s a great starting point to build a quality legal career. We’re passionate about development at FSP, and so, for the successful candidate, we’d encourage conversations with you around opportunities we have at FSP for training to qualify as a solicitor.

Candidates must have a strong academic record including, as a minimum, a 2.1 law degree or PGDL/conversion commendation and be able to commit to a full-time role. You’ll be able to demonstrate a strong intellect, excellent communication skills and a ‘can do’ attitude.

Paralegal experience would be helpful but is not essential to your application. We are also happy to consider applications from Team Assistants seeking a career in a key-critical support role and/or those wishing to develop their skills and become a Paralegal.

If this sounds like the perfect next role for you, please apply with a copy of your CV.

We’re looking for a qualified solicitor/licensed conveyancer/legal executive to grow our accomplished Residential Conveyancing team. If you are seeking a role within a supportive and dynamic team, read on as this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

About You 

We’re looking for someone who’s keen to develop their career working alongside our friendly team and clients. You will of course be technically able and see your future working in a successful residential property team. We are looking for a candidate who is capable of running their own files,  comfortable adapting to our clients’ needs and can be flexible in their approach.

We are looking for someone who enjoys providing a high level of service to their clients and who wants to be part of a team that is seeking to build on its reputation. We have a team of exceptional individuals who are here to pursue their own development, to seek satisfaction from doing a fantastic job for our clients but also really importantly, to help each other out and be part of an enjoyable working environment.

If you are looking to work with a likeminded group of people who enjoy delivering a bespoke service to clients but who are also keen to enjoy working with friendly team members, then please come and meet us so we can get to know each other. This is a rare opportunity for someone looking to prosper in a hugely supportive environment.

The Role

Our residential property team cover all aspects of residential property from higher value sales and purchases with complex title issues, right through to first time purchases. We have members of the team who have a great deal of experience in new build properties which everyone in the team has benefited from, particularly as for some this is an area that can sometimes prove a challenge. We have a specialist team who deals with lease extensions and enfranchisement that you would be welcome to participate in. This means there is rarely a transaction one might come across where someone isn’t able to provide guidance or support. Our work comes from a variety of sources such that the team works on some really interesting transactions.

We hope that you will want to get involved in some of the business development activities that the team gets up to, which can range from regular smaller events with our referrers of work or participating in some of the larger events organised by the firm. We regularly have in house training that we do as a team and everyone is encouraged to seek out their own learning via external training as well.

This is an exceptional opportunity to become a part of a friendly yet ambitious team where you will be given the opportunity to actively develop your career whilst working on an exciting and busy caseload of high-quality work.

Our Wills, Trusts and Estates team has an exciting opportunity for a 1-3 years PQE solicitor to join the team.

Your day-to-day caseload will involve working on the full range of non-contentious matters including the preparation and drafting of Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, as well as handling estate administration work (including advice relating to inheritance tax and the preparation of IHT accounts) for a wide range of private clients.

As part of the role, you will receive extensive supervision and training to develop your knowledge and experience in a successful private client department. In addition, you will be responsible for your own clients and caseload as well as being expected to be involved in team, and firmwide, business development activities.

You will be joining a busy team dealing with a wide range of matters and will be working in a friendly, professional department. Our Band One recognised Chambers and Legal 500 team continues to grow and there is now an exciting opportunity for you to develop your career to join a busy team with high quality work in this area. You will work with colleagues on large cases whilst benefitting from supervision and support from the widely experienced team. You’ll also work together with other colleagues within the contentious and non-contentious teams and take part in business develop opportunities.

If this role is something you are interested in, please apply with a detailed CV.

With a mixture of owner managed businesses, as well as large corporates, as clients, the team is well known and holds its own, and is well respected, up against larger, national firms. The testimonials received from clients echo this and the team has been commended for advice “offered in a very pragmatic and down-to-earth way” and for being “very commercial”.   The core of the corporate team’s work is M&A transactions and restructuring work. Deals vary in size but usually are for a value between £3,000,000 and £30,000,000. The team will also do smaller and bigger transactions/projects. For larger deals a partner or senior lawyer in the team will always lead, with a second partner or senior lawyer offering support as and when required. The majority of the team’s work is generated from existing client relationships and referrals/recommendations from current and previous clients and the team has a key network of professional contacts who also refer work to the team.

If this sounds like the type of team you would ideally seek to work alongside, or you would like to learn more, please email: [email protected] or apply now with a copy of your CV.

Our Dispute Resolution & Litigation team boasts some enviable blue-chip clients and a caseload which includes complex domestic and cross-border disputes. We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Associate to work alongside two Partners, as well as a Consultant, a Legal Director, an Associate, a Solicitor, a Trainee (rotating) and a Paralegal.

As part of the team, you’ll build your experience working collaboratively on some challenging disputes while also running and building your own caseload.  The role offers a significant level of variety and interest.  You will work across a range of sectors and work-types, which may include professional indemnity, construction, breach of warranty claims and s.994 claims, commercial contract disputes, insolvency disputes, fraud, IP and international arbitration. Clients will span many sectors, including automotive, financial services, leisure, fisheries, logistics and FMCG.

You’ll need to be hard working, resourceful, responsive and resilient, with the ability to grasp new challenges and areas of law quickly and accurately.  You need to be able to provide pragmatic and commercial solutions tailored to a range of different clients.  You should have the ability to supervise and develop others and be willing to engage in peer-to-peer discussions with senior colleagues as part of a close-knit team.

You should have a following of clients or referrers or have a proven track record in winning new clients.  There is the potential for progression through to partnership if the successful candidate can demonstrate the skills we expect in accordance with our internal career framework.

If you think this may be the opportunity for you to progress your career, please apply with a detailed CV.

Our Real Estate Team is the one of the largest in the South East outside of London and prides itself on providing City quality work. The team are currently looking to recruit a 0-6 years PQE solicitor to join their growing team.  We envisage the role suiting someone between 0-6 years PQE but candidates outside of this are welcome to apply.   Our exceptional lawyers handle a wide range of property transactions – including the acquisition and disposal of interests in real estate on individual sites and property portfolios, planning, environment and construction work, landlord and tenant matters and taxation and finance issues.

The role

You’ll be joining our team which handles a wide range of property transactions and advice – including office, industrial and retail lettings, large residential developments, investment property, secured lending and agricultural / rural estates work, acting for owners and occupiers, sellers and purchasers and financial institutions. You need not have experience of all these areas to apply -we’re interested to hear about your skills and interests.

Our friendly and talented team has a strong training ethos with regular team training events and development opportunities and we are keen to invest in the career development and progression of our lawyers.  Marketing activities are strongly encouraged and there will be plenty of opportunity to get involved in social events for team and business development reasons.

If you are interested in our vacancy please apply with a detailed CV.

We are delighted to have made significant growth to our Agricultural and Rural Land team this year with the addition of a further leading expert and the addition of a senior paralegal on route to qualification in 2025.  We are now expanding our team even further.  We are currently looking to recruit a solicitor who can build their experience working collaboratively on rural matters, whilst also running your own caseload. This may include more straightforward real estate transactions as well as more specialist transactions.

Here at FSP we are long-established in providing legal services to the rural and agricultural community in the Thames Valley and beyond and there are few firms in the region to rival FSP’s breadth and depth of expertise in this field.

FSP’s Agricultural and Rural Land team are regularly engaged in rural, agricultural and development transactions.

The team advises on farm disposals and acquisitions, farm related tenancies, ancillary rural commercial ventures such as granting wayleaves and easements to utility providers.   The team has significant expertise in farm business diversification projects, offering strategic land advice to clients seeking to leverage greater value through conversion of their natural land to consented development, which includes numerous residential development schemes, renewable energy projects, and biodiversity net gain offsetting, forestry, carbon offsetting and agri-environmental incentives and various other commercial enterprises.

FSP’s Agricultural and Rural Land team brings together the knowledge and expertise of highly experienced lawyers to provide a diverse range of specialisms. The team is best known for its attention to detail balanced with a pragmatic outlook, whilst not losing sight of the overall commercial terms of the transaction in hand. The team is known for its approachability and straightforward advice on complex agricultural transactions.

The wider Agricultural and Rural Land group consists of specialist Wills and Estates, trusts, litigation, family, corporate, partnership and employment lawyers.

The role

The role offers a significant level of variety and interest. You will work across a range of work-types, which will include more traditional agricultural property work, along with assisting clients with all manner of diversification projects. Clients will span many areas to attract your interest, ranging from farmers, landowners, investors, Universities and Colleges, advising on a whole range of agricultural and development work

Day to day work includes on a wide range of matters connected with rural property, including sales and acquisitions of agricultural land and buildings, property development, investment work, renewable energy projects, drafting overage provisions, farm-related tenancies including succession rights and surrenders, wayleaves and easements, and more. You may also get involved in supporting the wider real estate team.

You will receive good supervision and training, with the opportunity in time to build a name for yourself in a rewarding and varied discipline. The team will encourage you to get involved in business development opportunities as part of the team and firm generally.

About you

You should be able to demonstrate an interest in the rural sector and an affinity with our clients and contacts. You will benefit from support and career development from highly regarded and experienced partners with access to cases of a quality hard to find elsewhere in the Thames Valley. We like to provide tailored and pragmatic solutions for our clients so being able to demonstrate a high level of client care is essential.

If you are interested in our vacancy please apply with a detailed CV.