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Do you want to take the next step as a Senior Legal Counsel in a role where you can combine qualified legal work with client contact, supervision, and clear coordinating responsibilities within the team?

ToppTalent is now recruiting a Senior Legal Counsel for an established and growing law firm in central Gothenburg. The firm has been in operation for over 10 years and works with legal matters for both private individuals and companies, handling client-facing cases including disputes, contracts, and civil law issues.

This is an opportunity for you who want to work in an environment where legal quality is a given, but where the culture is also characterized by care, collaboration, lack of hierarchy, and freedom under responsibility.

About the firm

Our client is a personal and entrepreneurial law firm in central Gothenburg, with offices near Avenyn. The firm works closely with its clients on cases including disputes, contracts, and civil law issues.

What distinguishes the firm is both the culture and the way of working. There is a clear ambition to create a more sustainable legal career than in many traditional firm environments, with lower billing targets than is often common in the industry. This provides more room for quality, reflection, supervision, and collaboration.

The work is team-based, where lawyers work in teams of two and closely together on cases. As Senior Legal Counsel, you will play a key role in holding this work together by supervising junior lawyers, acting as a legal sounding board, quality-assuring drafts, and contributing to moving clients' cases forward in a secure and structured manner.

The culture is described as helpful, warm, and non-hierarchical. Here, law is taken very seriously, but fun is also had together in everyday life. It is an environment for you who appreciate freedom under responsibility, good collegial atmosphere, and balance in life.

The team consists of about five lawyers, a couple of interns, and administrative support. As Senior Legal Counsel, you will become a central figure in the daily work, responsible for contributing senior legal expertise, structure, and momentum.

About the role

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will have a senior and important role in the business. The role suits you who are confident in your legal expertise and who want to combine qualified legal work with supporting other lawyers, creating structure, and contributing to the team working forward in a sustainable way.

The background to the recruitment is that the business has grown and the founder needs relief in the senior legal role. There is a need for an experienced lawyer who can contribute legal quality, supervise younger colleagues, create an overview of cases, and help the team drive the work forward.

This is a Senior Legal Counsel role with clear senior responsibility, but not a role with heavy formal personnel responsibility or full company-wide budget responsibility. The focus is on legal quality, supervision of junior lawyers, coordination with clients, and creating structure and momentum in the team's work.

You will among other things:

• have a senior role in ongoing client cases and contribute with legal assessment, guidance, and momentum
• work with litigation and civil law cases, such as debt disputes, sales law issues, custody cases, drafting contracts, and disputes related to contracts, property, housing cooperatives, or services
• participate in client meetings and hold your own client meetings
• act as a legal sounding board for junior lawyers and read and quality-assure legal drafts
• contribute to cases getting the right priority, clear structure, and continued momentum
• create an overview in the team regarding important cases, client needs, and next steps
• contribute to a good client experience through clear communication, availability, and momentum
• participate in oral preparations and, if necessary, attend main hearings
• help the team work towards common goals where legal quality, collaboration, and sustainable workload go hand in hand

The role is largely about creating security, raising quality, being available as support, and contributing to the team working forward in a sustainable way.

We are looking for you who

We are looking for you who are a confident and experienced lawyer with experience in qualified legal work and client-facing issues. You thrive in a role where you can combine legal quality with supervision, coordination, and support for other lawyers.

Requirements

To be considered for the role, you need to have:

• At least five years of experience in qualified legal work
• Swedish Law Degree or other relevant Swedish legal education
• Ability to support, supervise, or act as a legal sounding board for less experienced colleagues
• Very good Swedish and English in speech and writing

Desirable experience

It is desirable if you have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Civil law disputes and litigation
• Contract law, contract drafting, and contract disputes
• Business law
• Process-oriented legal work
• Debt disputes
• Sales law issues
• Property-related cases, such as issues related to property, housing cooperatives, or services
• Family law disputes, such as custody cases
• Financial family law

It is also desirable if you have experience from the District Court, Court of Appeal, or as a notary trainee, or alternatively experience as a corporate lawyer or in-house lawyer in the private sector.

As a person

To thrive in the role, we believe you are structured, responsible, and confident in your legal expertise. You are also non-hierarchical and humble in collaboration with others.

You are communicative and clear in contact with both clients and colleagues. You have good morals, a high sense of responsibility, and enjoy helping others and sharing your knowledge.

The firm is looking for a person who can contribute structure, calm, and momentum, but also humor and positive energy in everyday life. The role suits you who want to make a difference in a smaller team where legal quality, responsibility, collaboration, and a sustainable everyday life are valued.

Practical information

Scope: Full-time

Location: Central Gothenburg, near Avenyn in nice premises

Working method: On-site, but some flexibility exists

Working hours: Normal office hours with flexible start and end times

Employment: Probation period of 6 months with the intention to transition to permanent employment

Start date: August/September as a realistic time frame

Benefits: Pension plan, wellness allowance, and a strong focus on freedom under responsibility

Application

This is a recruitment conducted on behalf of the client. The firm's name will be presented later in the process for candidates who move forward.

Reference checks: Occur at the end stage of the process

Does this sound like the right next step for you? Send in your application and we will tell you more.