Due to expansion, an opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Diploma graduate to join our award winning Business Development department. The Business Development team comprises three main work streams: HM Connect, Website Referrals and Bids & Tenders. We would love for a Diploma graduate to join our team of seven business development solicitors to support our work on HM Connect & Website based referrals and enquiries.

You will be a legal graduate who has recently competed the diploma and who has not yet secured a traineeship. We’d like to offer you the opportunity of working within the business side of a law firm and to cultivate an alternative career in the legal sector. 

You will have an active interest in the operation of the Scottish legal marketplace and the business of providing legal services. If you can bring creativity and flair to a role that requires you to think outside of the box, you’ll fit right in.

Your role will be to work with Partners Anne Macdonald & Amy Walsh and the wider HM Connect and Website Referral team to assist with new client acquisition and engagement and new business to Harper Macleod.

You will be involved in the following areas:

• Supporting the HM Connect team with member law firm enquiries and referrals
• Working as part of the Website Enquiry team, dealing with prospective client enquiries within strict timeframes
• Undertaking conflict of interest searches and identifying any attendant risks
• Utilising a case management system to log and maintain all enquiries and referrals
• Liaising with client advisors at all levels across the firm to ensure referrals and enquiries are allocated properly and within in agreed time limits

To be considered for this role, you must have the following skills and experience:

• Hold an LLB and Diploma in Legal Practice
• The ability to flourish in a fast-paced environment
• First rate communication skills; written and oral
• Strong teamwork mentality and commercial understanding
• Be able to engage positively at all levels in the firm
• Passionate about client care 
• Creativity and an open mind to new ideas 

Let your ambitions and ours go hand in hand

At Harper Macleod you’ll be part of a collective effort: celebrating successes, learning from one another and always inspiring new ways to improve. You want to deliver extraordinary results for clients; we want to deliver extraordinary opportunities and encourage you to make a difference.

Harper Macleod’s culture is the sum of the actions of the people who make up our business – you know the law, but you also know that there’s much more to being a lawyer than that.  You know that doing things the right way is always the best way – the right things for clients, colleagues and our communities. We will never compromise on this.

We also embrace flexibility – including when and where our people work.  We are a business that has been named Law Firm of the Year eight times and ranked in The Times Scotland Best Law Firms 2023. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, an active colleague engagement & CSR programme and the opportunity to develop your career.

Our client feedback and success profile tells us that we are a firm to be reckoned with and the best is yet to come for Harper Macleod. If this sounds like the type of firm you’d like to be part of, maybe the best is yet to come for you?

Harper Macleod LLP is committed to promoting equal opportunities and developing a diverse workforce.  

Please send your CV to Kenny McKinnon, HR Assistant kenny.mckinnon@harpermacleod.co.uk