Marine Solicitor

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Application Deadline: 10 June 2025

Department: Legal

Location: London UK

Description
This role involves assisting the Shoreside marine litigation team in the full range of dry and wet work, conducting your own caseload and providing assistance to others, with Partner support and oversight in court and arbitration.
Shoreside Law brings together a collaborative and specialist team of international lawyers and mariners dedicated to complex shipping, yacht, commercial, insurance and energy disputes. We provide high-quality advice with a view to solving disputes quickly, effectively, and with a commercial focus.
Shoreside Law is part of the Davies Group who, amongst other businesses, own the law firm Keoghs LLP. This role will be to specifically join the Shoreside Law team in London, but there will also be opportunities to work with our colleagues in our office in Greece.
Our work is wide-ranging, and no day is the same. The majority of our cases are high value, complex, and are frequently “headline” cases. All of our team undertake cases that relate to the full gamut of shipping contractual disputes, involving collisions, salvage, insurance, yachts and superyachts, ports, terminals and other industry operators. We have deep connections to multiple law firms and clients in jurisdictions globally and we are frequently called on by our clients to solve their problems wherever they may arise.
We place huge importance on working collaboratively within our team at all levels and in a way that ensures everyone shares the same aim: to enjoy work while providing top level advice to clients on important and varied matters.
We have a strong track-record of support and internal promotion for those who wish to advance their careers all the way up to Partnership.

Key Responsibilities

Handling a mixture of own and other’s caseloads of both wet and dry shipping litigations and arbitration.

Working Hours
35 hours per week, although flexibility is expected due to the nature of our work.
We operate flexible working, with a requirement to work a minimum 1 day per week in the office.
Primary location for this role is City of London.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

1 - 2 year qualified solicitorwith experience of handling shipping disputes in both the High Court and Arbitration

Required Soft Skills:

A self-motivated and personable individual
Someone with sound judgment, strong analytical skills and a commercial approach
Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
Ability to build strong client relationships and work collaboratively with colleagues

Benefits

Davies Incentive Plan
25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
Simply Health Care Cash Plan
WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
Death in Service
Critical Illness Cover
PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
Employee Resource Groups
Employee Volunteering Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme*
Tech Scheme*
Season Ticket Loan*
Gym Flex*
Access to Online Discount Sites
Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
Discounts at local retail outlets

* after successfully completing probation

Seniority level

Seniority level
Executive

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time