Data Privacy Lawyer - 4+ years PQE

Data Privacy Lawyer – 4+ years PQE

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow 

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a 4+ years PQE Data Privacy Lawyer to join our market-leading international Technology, Media & Telecoms (“TMT”) practice specialising in technology with a particular focus on data privacy. This role may be based in London, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Background to the Role

The TMT practice is a diverse practice dealing with transactional, dispute and advisory work. The data privacy team sits within TMT and is comprised of over 50 partners, legal directors and lawyers working across a network of offices in Amsterdam, Belfast, Birmingham, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Leeds, London, Madrid, Manchester, Munich and Paris.

The team now plays a key role within the wider business, given the business-critical importance of data across all sectors and the need to implement and document appropriate measures where personal data is involved. 

In addition, we are advising on novel areas of law, such as online child safety regulations and the evolving legal framework governing artificial intelligence. In parallel, the team works in close collaboration with our contentious data privacy team defending clients in regulatory data protection investigations and providing substantive data protection expertise in litigation matters. 

Purpose of the Role

The key elements of the role are:

• Advising on a full range of data privacy matters, including regulatory compliance, privacy impact assessments, data subject requests, contract negotiation, data protection compliance programmes and international data transfers;
• Providing subject-matter expertise on data privacy claims and regulatory investigations;
• Advising on new areas of digital regulation, including AI regulation;
• Assisting with business development activities in order to win new clients and develop new data workstreams from existing clients - this will involve attending and speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the key client relationship teams;
• Providing data privacy specialist input in a contractual/transactional context for IT contracts, services agreements, complex international transfers of data (both intragroup and at arm’s length), data licensing, data sharing agreements, and online terms. While the majority of time will be spent reviewing, drafting and negotiating data privacy related provisions, this may also include an element of IT/commercial drafting more generally; and 
• Supervising junior fee-earners and leading on matters with clients, helping to develop existing relationships with both clients and the teams outside of TMT with whom we work in close collaboration on large shared client mandates.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Previous hands-on experience of advising on data protection projects is a key requirement, including experience of advising on EU GDPR/UK GDPR compliance, international data transfers, privacy notices, negotiating and drafting processor clauses/agreements, and advising on direct marketing and e-Privacy issues.
• An awareness and a good understanding of upcoming regulatory changes in the data protection sphere is expected.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience in a large tech/commercial practice, specialising in data protection. The successful candidate must be not only technically excellent, but also commercially aware and enthusiastic about data privacy. Familiarity with advising in fast-paced, frontline tech sector environments is preferred, though not essential. This may include previous in-house or secondment experience, or experience advising on engagements with regulators.

Additional attributes

As well as having the experience mentioned above, the candidate should be:

• Strong academically;
• A team player who can work with different teams and lawyers across the firm;
• A self-starter who enjoys business development and would like to develop their business development skills; and
• Someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with strong organisational abilities. 

What will we offer you? 

• We are a market-leading, dynamic and growing international team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• You will be working with colleagues who are leading specialists in data privacy.
• We have an unparalleled client base comprising major banks and insurance companies, market-leading global technology businesses, UK Government and a number of leading international companies in our global sectors.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in TMT. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of breed" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. 

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice. 

We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish. 

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. 

Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

Awards

We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions, and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.  

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi

Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com

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