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Lunaria is delighted to partner with a Dublin 4 Commercial Law firm to recruit for a Legal Secretary to join their busy growing Corporate team. The role is full time and permanent.
The Client
Our client is a leading Irish commercial law firm with a highly regarded and growing Corporate practice. The firm advises Irish and international businesses across a broad range of corporate transactions, including M&A, investments, corporate reorganisations and general corporate advisory work
The Role
The Corporate team works with clients ranging from high-growth businesses to major multinational organisations on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Secretary to join the Corporate team in Dublin. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong legal secretarial experience who enjoys working in a busy, professional and collaborative environment.
The Legal Secretary will provide comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to partners and fee earners within the Corporate department.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing day-to-day legal administrative support to the Corporate team.
- Managing the full lifecycle of client and matter files using the firm's legal case/document management system.
- Preparing, formatting, amending and proofreading legal documents and correspondence.
- Ensuring electronic files and documentation are accurately maintained and kept up to date.
- Preparing documents, information and materials for internal and external meetings.
- Managing diaries, arranging meetings and ensuring schedules are coordinated effectively.
- Liaising professionally with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordinating the team's monthly billing process, ensuring invoices are prepared accurately and issued on time.
- Processing time records, expenses and other financial administration.
- Supporting the production of documents to a high standard and liaising with document specialists where necessary.
- Organising travel arrangements and preparing detailed itineraries.
- Greeting and liaising with clients and business visitors.
- Handling confidential and commercially sensitive information with complete discretion.
- Providing additional administrative and project support to the Corporate team as required.
Criteria
- 3–5+ years' experience as a Legal Secretary, preferably within a Corporate, Commercial or transactional legal department.
- Experience supporting partners, senior solicitors or other senior stakeholders.
- Strong document-production and Microsoft Office skills.
- Experience using iManage or another legal case/document management system.
Package
- Competitive salary & benefits
- This is an opportunity to become part of a growing Corporate practice and work alongside experienced partners and solicitors on high-quality transactional work.
- The firm offers a collaborative working environment with a strong focus on professional development and employee wellbeing.
The Firm
Philip Lee LLP is one of Ireland’s leading commercial law firms with offices in Dublin, Cork, London and New York. The firm has built a team of top tier lawyers who can advise on every aspect of business, both in Ireland and internationally. The firm acts for companies across all industry sectors and the lawyers at the firm are recognised for their ability to work through complex challenges and provide innovative solutions. Philip Lee LLP is the sole Irish member of Multilaw, a consortium network of over 10,000 lawyers in 100 countries worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive legal administrative support to the Corporate team.
- Manage the end-to-end file lifecycle using the firm’s legal case management system.
- File management – importing guidelines, accessing documents, sending demand letters, and making sure files remain updated.
- Prepare materials and information for internal and external meetings.
- Client billing – coordinating the team’s monthly billing process, ensuring invoices are issued on time and accurately.
- Diary management – making sure schedules are organised correctly and there are no conflicts with diaries.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to understand and respond to their requirements.
- Maintain discretion and confidentiality when handling sensitive information.
- Ensure accuracy and speed in document production, coordinating with document specialists when required.
- Manage travel arrangements and detailed itineraries.
- Process time records and expense reports; and
- Greet and liaise with clients and business visitors in a professional manner.
Candidate Profile
- 3–5+ years’ experience as a Legal Secretary, preferably within a corporate department.
- Experience managing a portfolio of senior stakeholders within the legal field.
- Experience using iManage or another case management system.
- Experience using a billing platform (KeyHouse or other).
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to work in the strictest level of confidentiality.
- Superb communication skills in both verbal and written format.
- Time management skills that allow you to coordinate multiple competing tasks.
- A positive, can-do approach to work, even in challenging situations.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team. The firm offers a collaborative and inclusive culture with a genuine focus on professional development and progression.
Benefits
At Philip Lee LLP we are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive environment in which all of our people feel valued and can enjoy doing what they love, working together to provide a first-class service to our clients.
Some of our employee initiatives include:
- Philip Lee Sports Teams (e.g. soccer, tag rugby);
- Participation in firm committees (Social, Wellness, Green, Pride, CSR, Pro Bono, and D&I);
- On-site gym, subsidised fitness, and yoga classes;
- Regular social events and team-building activities;
- Mindfulness and wellbeing talks; and
- A positive, can-do approach to work, even in challenging situations.
Employment Senior Associate
Fully Remote or Hybrid
Attractive package + benefits + bonus
The Role
This is a rare opportunity for an experienced employment solicitor to join a highly ranked practice at a leading international law firm. The role sits within a market-leading global practice and part of a broader people-focused group covering the full spectrum of workforce related legal advice, advising global businesses across a range of sectors including financial services, retail, media, technology, transport and food and beverage.
Stepping into this role, you can expect a broad mix of high quality work ranging from HR advisory, global project work, corporate and M&A support, restructuring, DEI projects, investigations, advice on senior exits and outsourcing. You will also work on large global projects with other lawyers across the firm internationally.
The role is ideal for an employment lawyer who enjoys maintaining client relationships alongside contributing to business development and thought leadership. This role therefore offers a genuine opportunity to raise your profile and go on to partnership.
The firm's platform provides a fantastic opportunity for collaborative lawyers to progress their career and they are keen to hire people who are excited by the opportunity to contribute to the practice's growth, whilst developing their expertise.
Required Experience, Skills and Attributes
- Good academic record.
- Extensive knowledge of employment law and experience advising large businesses on employment related matters.
- Transactional support experience.
- You will ideally have experience of working with international clients.
- Capability to perform tasks autonomously.
- Advanced drafting skills and legal research ability.
Please apply or contact us to discuss the opportunity further.
Pensions Associate
Top 50 International Law Firm
Highly Ranked (Legal 500)
This is a rare opportunity for a Pensions Associate (2-5 PQE) to join a growing, award winning pensions advisory practice at a leading international law firm.
The Opportunity
You'll join a genuine advisory practice rather than a corporate support function, working with trustees, employers, charities, institutions, master trusts, high net worth individuals and public bodies. The team is highly ranked in the Legal 500 for both advisory and pensions disputes work, resulting in a team that has grown significantly in recent years.
The pensions practice is the firm's leading team for AI and innovation. If you have a view on how pensions practice should evolve, there's real appetite for that conversation and a chance to shape how the team works.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and draft clear, technically sound legal advice on non contentious pensions matters.
- Liaise directly with clients and support partners in managing those relationships.
- Analyse facts and apply current law to give practical, commercial advice.
- Conduct legal research using internal and external knowledge resources.
- Attend business development and profile raising events, including client seminars.
- Build an internal and external network and contribute to the profile of the team.
About You
You are an England and Wales qualified lawyer with a foundation in UK pensions (circa 2-5 PQE) alongside the following experience:
- A genuine interest in non contentious pensions work.
- A proactive approach to clients, colleagues and your own development.
- A willingness to work with new technology and new ways of working.
- The ability to meet client and internal deadlines consistently.
- Ambition to progress your career over the coming years.
What's on Offer
- Manageable billable targets with substantial, and above market, bonus potential
- Hybrid working, with flexible arrangements open to discussion.
- Competitive salary, life assurance, private health and dental cover for you and your family.
- Flexible benefits including tech, cycle and electric car schemes, plus a paid day each year to volunteer.
- A wellbeing strategy covering physical, emotional, financial and social support.
If you're a pensions lawyer looking for specialist advisory work at a firm investing in the practice, I'd be glad to hear from you.
Lunaria Partners are advertising this Pensions Associate role on behalf of our client. We strive to respond to all applications but due to the volume received, this isn't always possible. If you have not heard from us in 7 days your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Corporate and Commercial Associate | 2 to 5 years PQE | Fully remote (UK)
This is not a conventional Corporate Commercial Associate role and represents a superb opportunity to develop coveted specialist expertise. The work sits at the point where international tax strategy becomes legal reality: designing and implementing the corporate structures, intercompany agreements, and group reorganisations that multinational businesses rely on to stay compliant and transaction ready. If you have enjoyed the corporate work you have done so far and want to develop a genuine niche beyond general transactional support - this could be for you!
The Role
You will run your own workstreams on international projects for multinational groups headquartered across the UK, Europe, North America and APAC. That means drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements; designing and implementing intercompany agreement frameworks; advising on the legal aspects of cross border structures and group reorganisations; and preparing board minutes, written resolutions and the wider corporate governance documentation that sits behind them.
Alongside the above you will support corporate simplification projects, debt restructurings and M&A transactions, including due diligence and implementation. Interaction with stakeholders is a key aspect of the role. You will therefore be trusted to lead on calls, speak to clients directly and liaise with their accountants, tax advisers and transfer pricing specialists. Notably, full training is provided in their specialist areas and the firm will ensure your role is commensurate with PQE.
Role Requirements
The ideal candidate will be qualified in England and Wales with 2 to 5 years PQE in corporate, commercial or a transactional practice. You will have strong contract drafting and negotiation skills alongside a solid grounding in company law and corporate governance, including experience preparing resolutions and board documentation. The perfect candidate will be comfortable running matters with real autonomy, whilst asking the right questions along the way.
Beyond excellent legal grounding, precision will be key. This work rewards lawyers who notice the detail others skim past, who write clearly, and who can hold several moving parts in their head without losing track.
Why this rare opportunity is worth a conversation
- The team is a recognised international leader in its field, and you will be joining a positive and collaborative boutique firm.
- You get client contact from the start and real responsibility for delivery.
- Progression is available and visible.
- The projects are technically demanding and international by default, and you will be collaborating with advisers from several disciplines rather than operating in a legal silo.
- Salary is competitive, with private health insurance, income protection and life insurance.
Please reach out to discuss this varied and rewarding opportunity in more detail.
This is a rare opportunity for a senior corporate solicitor who's keen to step off the standard City track and into a genuinely differentiated practice. Our client is built around the high value niche of sport, and it's given them a seat at the table on some of the largest and most complex deals of their kind. It's the sort of work that would normally sit with a much bigger platform.
In this varied role you'll be working on high quality corporate transactional work: company sales, joint ventures, growth stage investment, and high value M&A, much of it involving private capital. Deal sizes and complexity are a step up from what's typical at this level. You'll be running a genuine mix, some deals with a heavy regulatory and governance layer alongside the transaction itself, others more conventional in structure but bigger in scale.
Beyond the deal work, you'll get real breadth: advisory work on governance frameworks, helping set up new commercial structures from scratch, and regulatory matters. It's the kind of range that's hard to find in a traditional corporate practice.
This would suit an experienced lawyer at Senior Associate or Managing Associate level who's built a solid grounding in private company M&A, joint ventures, and venture style deals at a leading City practice. Our client is looking for someone who wants more ownership, more variety, and closer client contact than a larger firm typically offers.
What our client is looking for
- Strong corporate foundation in private M&A, joint ventures, and venture capital, from a well regarded City firm
- A confident, natural communicator who's comfortable leading client relationships
- Strong academics
No specific sector background required. What matters is the appetite to go deep in the specialist area of sport.
Commercial Property Partner | Boutique Firm | Midlands
We're delighted to be working on a confidential basis with a well-regarded, employee-owned boutique law firm, on the appointment of a Commercial Property Partner as part of its continued growth strategy.
This is an excellent opportunity for an established Partner, or a senior lawyer ready to step up into a leadership role, within a firm known for strong client relationships and a genuinely collaborative culture. The firm has built its reputation on direct, reliable advice across property development, business premises, investment property, commercial leasing, planning and infrastructure and some high quality residential work.
The opportunity:
- Lead and grow the commercial property practice across a diverse client base
- Advise SME, investor and developer clients on a broad range of high-quality matters
- Play a key role in business development and the firm's wider strategic direction
- Join a platform that offers real scope to shape and expand the offering
What the firm is looking for:
- An experienced commercial property lawyer at Partner level, or ready to step up
- A strong track record in client development and relationship management
- A commercial mindset with the ability to identify and drive growth
- A collaborative approach, with an interest in mentoring and team development
Why consider this role:
- The firm has a clear appetite for growth
- Established client base and strong referral pipeline
- An entrepreneurial, purpose-driven environment with more agility than you'd get at a larger firm
- Genuine influence over the direction of the practice, as part of an employee-owned business
The firm is open to individuals with an existing following as well as those with a clear and credible business plan.
For a confidential discussion, please get in touch.
Immigration Partner / Legal Director | Legal 500 Ranked Firm | London or Regions
We’re delighted to be supporting a highly respected, Legal 500 ranked employment practice in their search for a senior immigration lawyer. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward‑thinking firm known for its collaborative culture, stimulating work and impressive platform.
About the Firm
Our client boasts a 50+ strong employment and immigration team, including numerous lawyers ranked in the leading legal directories for their technical excellence and commercially focused advice. Their immigration offering is well‑established, well‑regarded, and primed for further strategic growth.
The firm has invested heavily in creating a genuinely flexible, people‑focused culture built on openness, respect, and collaboration. Their inclusive environment has earned multiple industry accolades and retains a strong reputation for employee wellbeing and career development.
The Opportunity
The firm is seeking an Immigration Partner or Legal Director to lead the growth of their offering in the South East. The ideal candidate will have the following experience:
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A strong and transferable client following
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A recognised market profile within business immigration
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A proven track record of developing client and referrer relationships
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The confidence and credibility to win work and grow a practice on a national platform
This is an ideal role for someone keen to shape strategy, influence the direction of a growing practice area, and play a highly visible role in the development of a high‑performing national team.
What You’ll Bring
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Significant experience in business immigration matters
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The ability to lead, inspire and contribute to a collaborative team
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A commercial mindset and the drive to build a successful practice
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Strong business development skills and an established following
Why This Firm?
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A progressive, inclusive culture with a genuine commitment to flexibility
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High‑quality national client base spanning PLCs, major corporates and SMEs
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Strong investment in partner‑level growth across the EPIC team
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The platform, resource and support needed to build and grow your practice
Contact
To confidentially discuss this opportunity, please contact me on +44 7595 538056 or cassidy.bishop@lunariapartners.com.
Commercial Partner | Commercial, Technology & IP | Highly regarded Multi-Office Firm
Location: East Midlands (Leicester or Nottingham)
Package: Highly competitive
We are working with a highly respected national law firm that is investing significantly in the growth of its commercial practice. The firm is seeking to appoint an experienced Commercial Partner to join its national team and play a key role in shaping the next phase of its development.
This is a strategic lateral hire with full leadership backing and a clear mandate to grow. If you are an established Commercial Partner looking for a stronger platform, greater autonomy, or a more collaborative environment, this opportunity is worth exploring.
The Opportunity
This position offers:
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A national platform with strong cross‑practice support across corporate, disputes, employment, real estate, and regulatory.
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A growing commercial practice with genuine investment and appetite for expansion.
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The freedom to develop and scale your own sector niche and make the practice your own whether in technology, IP‑rich industries, transport, consumer brands, construction, or other areas.
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Access to a high‑quality client base, including major corporates and high‑growth businesses.
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A culture that values entrepreneurial thinking and personal development.
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Real influence in the direction and growth of the commercial practice.
This is an ideal move for a Partner seeking a more supportive infrastructure or a firm that aligns with their ambition.
Who We Are Looking For
We are keen to speak with Partners who:
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Have a strong track record in commercial, technology, or IP‑related transactional work.
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Bring established client relationships or demonstrable business development capability.
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Are commercially astute and trusted by clients for strategic, pragmatic advice.
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Enjoy working collaboratively across teams and contributing to firmwide growth.
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Are seeking a platform that offers more support, more opportunity, and more strategic influence.
Whether you are looking for a better cultural fit, a more modern working environment, or a firm that will actively invest in your practice, this role could offer a compelling alternative.
Why This Firm
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National reach with a modern, flexible working culture
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Strong leadership support for lateral Partner hires
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Transparent and collaborative decision‑making
To confidentially discuss this opportunity, please contact me on +44 7595 538056 or cassidy.bishop@lunariapartners.com.