Corporate Solicitor - Technology

Corporate Solicitor - Litigation, Employment & AI

Newmarket, Suffolk | Office-based

We’re looking for a solicitor qualified in England and Wales with hands-on experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, employment law, commercial contracts and corporate matters.

The role combines legal practice with product development. You’ll handle disputes, draft and negotiate agreements, and advise directors on business decisions. You’ll also work alongside some of the brightest minds in British AI to create new legal products. Your experience as a solicitor will help the development team decide what to build and how to tell whether it works in practice.

What you’ll do

Lead commercial disputes. Assess claims and defences, advise on evidence, costs and settlement, and manage matters from pre-action correspondence through negotiation, mediation or litigation. Draft statements of case and witness statements, manage disclosure and instruct counsel where appropriate.

Advise on employment matters. Draft and review employment contracts, director service agreements, consultancy agreements and settlement agreements. Advise on workplace disputes and Employment Tribunal claims.

Handle commercial contracts and corporate work. Draft and negotiate customer, supplier, software and licensing agreements. Advise directors on governance, shareholder arrangements and corporate transactions.

Build and test legal products. Work directly with AI developers on tasks that matter to practising lawyers, such as tracing a disputed fact to its source, preparing an evidence chronology or identifying material changes between two versions of a contract. Define what a reliable result looks like and test the product against it.

What you’ll bring

Qualification as a solicitor of England and Wales with a current practising certificate.

Commercial litigation and dispute resolution experience is essential. You should be able to describe a contested matter you personally managed, the advice you gave and the decisions you took as it progressed.

Practical experience drafting employment contracts, advising on employment matters, negotiating commercial agreements and handling corporate work.

Hands-on familiarity with at least one AI tool or model is essential. This could be Anthropic’s Claude, an OpenAI model through ChatGPT or the API, or an open-weight model such as Llama or Qwen. You should be able to explain how you used it, how you checked its output and how you protected confidential information.

Clear drafting, sound commercial judgement and the ability to explain a legal problem to both a director making a decision and a developer building a product.

How to apply

Please send your CV with a short note outlining a commercial dispute you personally handled and one example of how you have used AI in legal work. Please anonymise both examples and include your salary expectations and availability

Benefits

Pension