Trade Lawyer vacancies in the Government Legal Department, DIT Legal Advisers
Information for candidates applying for the Trade Lawyer vacancies in the Government Legal Department, DIT Legal Advisers based in London
Headline Information
| Department | Government Legal Department |
| Division | Department for International Trade Legal Advisers |
| Job title | Trade Lawyer |
| Location | London |
| Salary | Grade 7 - £48,800 ; Legal Officer (less than 3 years’ PQE) - £42,844 |
| Application deadline | Midday on Friday 2 August 2019 |
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Vacancy details
The Government Legal Department (GLD) is the largest provider of legal services across government, working with over 180 government departments and agencies. From roads to rivers, and health to human rights, our work touches on most aspects of public life.
The department has more than 14 client-facing advisory teams who provide legal advice on the development, design and implementation of government policies and decisions, draft secondary legislation and work with Parliamentary Counsel on primary legislation. Our cross-cutting expert service groups for Litigation, Employment and Commercial Law provide specialist legal services to a wide range of government departments and public bodies.
We are a non-ministerial government department with more than 2,500 employees, around 1,800 of who are solicitors or barristers. The department is based primarily in London but has teams in Bristol and Leeds.
The posts offered are based in London within the Department for International Trade (DIT) Legal Advisers, a division within the Government Legal Department.
The division has responsibility for providing legal services to the department across the range of its activities, including the work of the Department’s Trade Policy Group (TPG) and the Global Trade and Investment teams (GTI).
TPG’s main function is to provide the capability to deliver an independent trade policy for the UK as we leave the European Union.
TPG has been developing with the rest of government the UK’s specific goals and policies for international trade agreements, and building its own capability, as a world leading trade policy organisation, to deliver them.
DIT Legal Advisers provides legal support to TPG across the range of its work, including establishing the UK’s independent membership of and engagement at the WTO, developing a new independent trade remedies regime for the UK, leading on developing the UK’s detailed trade policy positions, building the capability to bring and defend trade disputes and developing a new trade strategy through free trade agreements.
It also advises on export control matters, which are frequently high profile and fast moving, and supports teams leading on market access, services, investment, goods, intellectual property, procurement, regulatory environment and sustainability.
We also support the department’s Global Trade and Investment teams. GTI works across the UK and international network to find and create demand for British goods, service and inward investment opportunities and supports UK businesses to export.
Government work is likely to involve a rapid learning curve to acquire legal skills and knowledge not required in private practice.
Strong intellectual and analytical skills are important. We will provide support to help you acquire the necessary expertise and have a thriving CPD-accredited in-house training programme.
Contact
For further information about the post and application enquiries, please contact the Recruitment Team or telephone 0845 3000 793 or 0117 923 4417.
