Legal Counsel

Job Title: Legal Counsel Salary: to £90,000Location: Home and Windsor (home working 3-4 days a week)PQE: 5 years’ +One of our in-house clients, a growing company based in Windsor, are looking for a senior corporate affairs associate / legal counsel to assist and support the Director of Corporate Affairs in the management of all legal affairs for the company with a particular focus on Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Commercial work.Key Responsibilities: Managing the legal aspects of the company’s Intellectual Property portfolio including:Coordinating external IP lawyersBringing oppositions to registrationsNegotiating settlements to disputesRegistration of new trade marksDetermining litigation strategyOverseeing, advising and leading compliance to UK GDPR and Data Protection across the company including:Being the nominated person for Data Protection internally and externallyIdentifying and minimising data protection risksAssessing data protection complianceDrafting, implementing and ensuring compliance with data protection policy and procedureReviewing, amending and drafting legal documentation and contracts to support the commercial and operation arms of the business;Advising the board of directors and company on a wide variety of legal areas and obtaining external expertise where required to do so;Managing external lawyers and suppliers including their costs;It is essential that have a minimum of 5 years’ PQE (this can be gained in-house or private practice) and have extensive litigation experience. Experience in data protection law and IP will also be beneficial. The office is located in Windsor and you will need to travel to the office twice a week, with three days working remotely. Fantastic opportunity for an ambitious private practice lawyer to move in-house, or for an experienced counsel to move to a progressive company in a fast-moving, growing market.McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.