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Dispute Resolution Solicitors (NQ to 8+ years PQE)
Due to a period of continued growth and significant client wins, we are recruiting up to three solicitors to join Harper Macleod’s highly-acclaimed Dispute Resolution team. We are one of the largest litigation teams in the country and are routinely instructed in some of the highest-profile cases in the Scottish Courts. The team and many of our individual practitioners are consistently recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
From our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Elgin, Thurso and Lerwick, our highly experienced team deals with a broad range of commercial and other disputes for a mix of private and public sector clients, including high value and complex litigated cases in the Court of Session and Sheriff Court. We also regularly represent clients in appeals to the Supreme Court.
We are looking for solicitors to join our Edinburgh team, though the team advises and represents clients Scotland-wide.
This role will focus mainly on Public Sector litigation, supporting Jennifer Jack and Calum Gee, Partners, who both have recognised expertise in Public and Administrative law. Your work will principally involve advising and representing clients on public and administrative law issues, including advising clients on legislation, statutory interpretation and the powers and duties of public bodies and representing clients in court challenges such as Judicial Review and Appeals and in public inquiries. Experience in these areas of law is preferred but is not essential.
We are recruiting for a number of different posts and welcome applications from solicitors with a broad range of experience, from newly qualified solicitors to those with significantly more experience (8+ PQE).
The successful applicants will be client-focused self-starters, who are organised, with excellent inter-personal and technical skills and an attention to detail. The applicants should be able to work confidently in a fast-moving environment and be able to handle a challenging and varied workload often with tight timescales set by courts. The successful candidates will join a culture that depends upon each team member working effectively and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary group, where support and encouragement is built-in.
Let your ambitions and ours go hand in hand
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 Firm of the Year for 2025 by Chambers and Partners, 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.
To apply please send a CV and current salary details to Rona Cargill, HR Director
