Jobs at CMS

Support the trade mark team with managing a busy trade mark practice, assisting Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys and solicitors, maintaining client relationships, managing competing demands and deadlines, and developing expertise in intellectual property and trade mark prosecution.

Supports the day-to-day operation of the Beijing office, including facilities, suppliers, workplace services, finance administration, HR support, events, visitor logistics, and compliance coordination. Provides dedicated partner and executive assistance, including calendar management, travel arrangements, time recording, briefings, conflict checks, client matter openings, and retainer letter preparation. Maintains records and uses firm systems for information and administrative management.

Advise leading insurers and reinsurers on complex first-party insurance coverage matters and related disputes, especially across construction CAR/EAR, property, energy, and renewables. Handle international litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and adjudication. Manage significant matters, provide strategic and commercially focused advice, maintain client relationships, and contribute to business development and team growth.

Supports finance business partners with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, reporting, profitability analysis, dashboards, and strategic decision support. The role prepares management presentations, maintains monthly reporting packs, ensures financial data integrity, supports partner and fee-earner queries, contributes to financial education, and identifies process improvements across finance systems and models.

Advise pension scheme trustees and employers on defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, derisking solutions, master trusts, innovative structures, and pensions litigation. The role involves high-quality advisory work, client relationship management, business development, and continued development within a leading pensions practice.

Provides secretarial and administrative support to an Employment team, including preparing legal documents, managing diaries and correspondence, coordinating meetings and travel, liaising with courts and clients, supporting billing, maintaining matter records, managing HighQ and DocuSign workflows, and formatting pitch presentations.

Manage invoice and expense processing, supplier and staff payments, reconciliations (including 300+ credit cards), expense system administration, stakeholder queries, and ensure compliance with firm policies and auditors.

Provides legal advice on infrastructure projects across procurement, construction, financing, operations, contract expiry, distressed projects, and contractual disputes. Works with public and private sector clients, infrastructure funds, asset managers, and contractors to negotiate contracts, manage portfolio changes, and prepare settlement documentation. The role requires a qualified solicitor with at least three years’ post-qualification experience.

Lead legal operations initiatives supporting a practice group, including legal project and matter management, process improvement, change adoption, data and financial analysis, technology and AI-enabled workflow design, training, and client solutions. The role requires strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, project management, process-mapping, analytical, and legal technology skills.

Supports lawyers with document reviews, data subject access requests, litigation disclosure, intellectual property and employment disputes, undefended litigation, due diligence, document management, contract review, redaction, and preparation of legal documents and client materials. The role involves court process tasks, enforcement and recovery work, asset tracing, payment negotiations, and use of legal technology under fee earner supervision.

Handle complex insurance and reinsurance matters, including professional indemnity disputes, FI/D&O, policy coverage, and cyber breach response. Advise insurers and reinsurers on high-value claims, draft legal documents, provide practical commercial guidance, manage client relationships, and develop market contacts. The role offers opportunities to specialize in emerging areas such as W&I, FinTech, and Tech E&O.

Employment Associate advising commercial clients on contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including day-to-day advice, transactions, business transfers, tribunal litigation, restructurings, TUPE, industrial relations, investigations, and strategic compliance projects. The role involves supporting UK and international clients within a collaborative employment law team, with opportunities for professional development and cross-jurisdictional work.

Provides legal advice on real estate transactions, asset management, leases, investment projects, and construction processes. Drafts and negotiates related agreements, supports Polish and international clients, manages projects, develops client relationships, coordinates teams, mentors junior lawyers, and contributes to business development, publications, and industry events.

Advises clients on corporate law and M&A matters, prepares transaction and corporate documents, conducts due diligence, drafts legal opinions and memoranda, collaborates across jurisdictions, supports complex transactions, and develops client relationships.

Senior Associate lawyer managing local and international Corporate/M&A matters, advising clients, preparing transaction documentation, leading due diligence, coordinating teams, supervising junior lawyers, and supporting business development. The role requires independent project leadership, strong company law and transactional expertise, negotiation skills, fluent English, and qualification as a Polish Attorney-at-Law or Advocate.

Manages the Singapore office’s daily operations across facilities, administration, finance, compliance, and HR support. Responsibilities include supplier and facilities coordination, reception and meeting rooms, regulatory filings, legal and visa administration, billing and accounting support, audits, payroll coordination, onboarding and offboarding, employee records, and HR queries. The role also supports lawyers administratively, maintains confidential records, and ensures compliance with Singapore employment requirements.

Join the Manchester Corporate Tax Team advising on complex, cross-border and high-value transactions involving real estate, M&A, private equity, joint ventures and investments. Responsibilities include supporting senior lawyers, developing client relationships, contributing to business development and marketing activities, and supervising trainees. The role requires strong legal drafting, practical advisory skills, commercial focus and up to four years of post-qualification experience in a UK-based team.

Experienced pensions solicitor advising trustees and employers on defined benefit and defined contribution schemes. The role involves broad advisory work, pensions litigation, insurance products, master trusts, longevity products, client relationship management, and business development. Candidates should have at least seven years’ post-qualification experience, strong pensions experience from a recognized team, excellent communication and organizational skills, strong academics, and exceptional attention to detail.

Manage day-to-day secretarial staff and workflow for a practice group, deliver PA/operational support to Practice Group leaders, oversee mentoring, recruitment/induction, performance management, Workday leave/absence processes, quality checks, and lead continuous improvement and adoption of new processes and AI-driven tools.

Provide tax advisory support on cross-border, regulatory and transactional matters. Research and draft tax memoranda, structuring notes and client advice; support M&A, financing, energy and tech projects; assist partners with legal research, client communications and business development while developing expertise in Ukrainian and cross-border taxation.