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Litigator, BVI

  • Location:

    Road Town, British Virgin Islands

  • Sector:

    Legal Services

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Published:

    34 days ago

  • Expiry date:

    03 January 2025

Kobre & Kim is looking for a solicitor or barrister with significant Trusts and Estates litigation experience to join our BVI office.

You will be required to perform client representation and advisory services in connection with Trusts and Estates matters that arise under or touch on the law the British Virgin Islands and other common law jurisdictions. You will also be required to represent and advise clients in a broad range of asset recovery, insolvency, commercial, and international private client matters. These matters are frequently multi-jurisdictional in nature. As such, and you will be expected to have experience of intellectually demanding cases and to be prepared to travel, sometimes at short notice.

You will be expected to draft pleadings and applications for interim measures, including applications for injunctive relief and freezing orders, at short notice; prepare legal analyses and client updates; draft legal submissions and represent clients in Court; prepare and deal with case-related correspondence; lead case teams; and conduct business development.

You will be working on high-value, high-stakes matters with a cross-border element. You will be focused on “breaking the traditional lawyering mould” by using deep knowledge and cutting-edge techniques to get to the heart of solving the client’s real problem.

We focus solely on disputes and investigations. Our lawyers collaborate on cross-border teams that handle matters involving financial products and services disputes; civil and commercial litigation; judgment enforcement and asset recovery; class actions; criminal defence and regulatory enforcement and internal investigations.

Requirements

  • 4 - 10 years PQE
  • Admitted in the U.K. and/or the BVI or another commonwealth jurisdiction
  • Extensive experience in Trusts and Estates litigation
  • Extensive multi-jurisdictional experience in the firm’s practice areas
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and significant client-facing experience
  • Robust writing, drafting and editing skills
  • You will be expected to work in the office a minimum of four days a week as necessary

Why Join Kobre & Kim?

Kobre & Kim focuses solely on disputes and investigations. Our lawyers collaborate on cross-border teams that handle matters involving criminal defense and regulatory enforcement; internal investigations; civil and commercial litigation; class actions; judgment enforcement and asset recovery; and financial products and services disputes.

Being part of our team will give you experience unrivaled in the world of premium high-stakes litigation. We recognize that our greatest asset is our people, so we want the best and the brightest to find and fulfill their true potential with us. We are looking for a new breed of litigators who combine substantive legal skills, problem-solving capabilities, intellectual rigor, determination, and a global outlook, with the creativity and people skills to have a real impact on the delivery of our innovative legal solutions.

Our lawyers bring their formidable skills and experience to think one step ahead, to address the client’s entire problem and not just the legal aspects. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, honed to appeal to businesspeople and courts alike, we strike the perfect balance between civility and intellectual aggressiveness to generate unconventional legal strategies that deal with clients’ real problems.

Our Application Process

Applying and interviewing with a new firm can be daunting and time-consuming. We do everything we can to make applying to Kobre & Kim feel quite the opposite. There are no tricks, shortcuts or pitfalls. We read every resume with great care and we work hard to make the right decisions at each stage. You’ll get more out of the process if you come to it with a good understanding of the firm, the work we do, the legal products we specialize in and a clear idea of what you want from your professional career. Selection is a reciprocal process – you will be deciding whether we’re right for you at the same time as we’re finding out more about you. You want to make sure you’ll be happy and successful at Kobre & Kim. So do we.

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Search Firms

Kobre & Kim will not accept unsolicited resumes or other unsolicited candidate information from Search Firms. Submissions will only be considered when a fully executed fee agreement is in place. Please contact legalrecruiting@kobrekim.com with any questions.

Kobre & Kim is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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