Associate – Risk & Best Practice

At Burges Salmon, we are committed to delivering exceptional legal services through collaboration, innovation, and a deep understanding of our clients' needs. We are now looking for a Risk Associate to join our Risk and Best Practice team.

This is a unique opportunity to step into a broad and exciting role, supporting the firm's legal and regulatory compliance with a particular focus on contract management. You will work closely with colleagues across the business, advising on a wide range of risk and regulatory matters that are central to the firm's success. The role offers variety, challenge, and the chance to make a real impact within a collaborative and progressive team.

What you'll be doing

As a Risk and Regulatory Associate, you will:

• Review and advise on client engagement terms, codes of conduct, and compliance with client and firm policies.
• Support client pitches and marketing initiatives from a risk and compliance perspective.
• Lead on updates to the firm's engagement letters and terms of business.
•  Advise on secondments, international assignments, and subcontracting arrangements.
• Maintain and develop the firm's compliance policies and procedures.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and initiate necessary changes.
• Deliver training and raise awareness of risk and compliance issues across the firm.
• Provide legal advice and research on regulatory matters, including SRA Standards and Regulations.
•   Support internal audits and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
•  Represent the Risk and Best Practice team on internal projects and committees.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.

We're looking for someone who brings:

•  A current practising certificate or a strong background in law firm risk management.
•  Experience in commercial contract review and negotiation.
• Knowledge of the SRA Handbook and key legal and regulatory obligations (e.g. AML regulations).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, flexible, and resilient approach to managing competing priorities.
• A collaborative mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement.

We are committed to an inclusive and supportive working environment. We would be open to applications from individuals returning to the legal profession following a career break, such as parental leave, as well as those considering transitioning from private practice or other sectors into legal risk and compliance.

We embrace a hybrid working model that offers flexibility and supports a healthy work-life balance. Our hybrid working approach allows you to work from home, subject to business needs, with most people spending 40% to 60% of their time in the office. 

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the fourth year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the fourth year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people. It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Ayesha Arshad (Resourcing Specialist) – [email protected] or call on 0117 307 6807 for an informal and confidential conversation.

Closing date for application will be Tuesday, 15th July.

We encourage early applications, as we may close the vacancy ahead of the advertised closing date if we receive sufficient interest. 

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