Legal Counsel

Short summary

You will join a friendly, collaborative and forward-thinking Legal & Governance team, working closely with colleagues across science and operations. Alongside providing practical legal advice, you will have the opportunity to shape how we deliver legal services, exploring new technologies, improving processes and helping us work smarter.

We are looking for a commercially minded lawyer who enjoys variety, building relationships and finding creative solutions. If you are curious, collaborative and excited by the opportunity to use your legal expertise somewhere it can make a meaningful difference, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

These include but not limited to:

• Providing practical, commercially focused legal advice to scientific and operational teams across the Crick.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of agreements, including commercial contracts, research collaborations, funding arrangements and agreements relating to intellectual property and data.
• Supporting exciting scientific projects, strategic partnerships and commercial initiatives.
• Building trusted relationships with stakeholders and translating complex legal matters into clear, accessible advice.
• Improving legal processes, systems and ways of working.
• Sharing knowledge, supporting junior colleagues and contributing to a positive, collaborative team culture.

About you

You will have: 

• A solicitor or barrister admitted in England & Wales (or another common law jurisdiction), with a current practising certificate and at least three years’ post-qualification experience or demonstrable equivalent experience.*
• General commercial contracting experience, ideally in science or technology, and a sound understanding of the legal and regulatory context of a charitable biomedical research institute.*
• Excellent communication and legal drafting skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly and effectively.*
• Experience of alternative legal service models, matter management systems and using technology to challenge existing approaches.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, self-awareness and the ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, collaborative approach and experience supporting junior colleagues.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it to the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

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