Pensions Litigation Senior Associate

Are you an experienced Pensions Litigation Lawyer looking for a new opportunity? Join our "cutting-edge" (Legal 500, 2024) Pensions Litigation Team, where you'll have access to rewarding and complex work with top-calibre clients, enjoying high levels of responsibility from the outset.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our Tier 1 (Legal 500) and Band 2 (Chambers) ranked Pensions Litigation Team, part of our wider Dispute Resolution Department. Here you will work with leading Partners on the whole range of pensions disputes work including high-profile multi-party Part 8 rectification and construction claims, Part 7 professional negligence claims, regulatory proceedings and member complaints.  The team acts for trustees, employers and representative members.

The team regularly advise on the following issues:

• Documentation problems: drafting errors and invalidity of scheme governing documentation
• Negligence claims acting for and against all advisers to pension schemes
• Administration errors and disputes with administration providers: Under- and over- payment, GMP equalisation, tax issues, benefit rectification projects
• Member disputes: IDRP complaints, complaints to the Pensions Ombudsmen and the FOS
• Data protection and cybersecurity issues
• Representing members in Part 8 claims and Beddoe proceedings
• Regulatory disputes
• Advice to FCA regulated financial services firms offering SIPPs and SSASs in relation to pensions and investment issues

Given the flexible and collaborative way our Dispute Resolution Department operates, you will also have opportunity to support wider professional negligence work and commercial disputes. You will also be expected to build strong relationships with our leading pensions advisory practice in Bristol, Edinburgh and London.

As one of 100+ dispute resolution lawyers working on a diverse range of complex challenges facing clients in the private and public sector, you will work closely with highly regarded lawyers, including:

• Suzanne Padmore, Leading Partner (Legal 500) and Band 4 (Chambers) 
• Justin Briggs, Leading Partner (Legal 500) and Band 2 (Chambers) 

What others say…

‘London quality outside London. Great technical pensions knowledge combined with litigation expertise.' (Legal 500, 2025).

‘Burges Salmon has an established team of pensions litigators with a longstanding reputation for handling significant high-profile cases. The firm is noted for its expertise in Part 8 claims, rectification cases and regulatory litigation. It also advises clients on pension-related professional negligence cases. It focuses on work for trustees and also advises a large number of scheme sponsors.' (Chambers, 2024)

What you'll need

• Practical experience of Pensions Litigation and professional negligence disputes
• Strong team working skills
• Excellent interpersonal, client and commercial skills
• Adaptability and ability to deal with complex work under pressure
• Registration as a lawyer with the SRA

The Firm

Our working environment is professional yet progressive, where quality of work and quality of life go hand-in-hand. Our collaborative approach to how we do business is totally refreshing. It's what attracts some of the best legal minds in the industry and it's why our people love working here.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have recently been voted by our people as RollOnFriday's ‘Best Firm to Work at 2024'.

We are able to offer flexible working arrangements through our commitment to hybrid working.

Benefits

We will provide you with a collaborative environment, City-quality work and a transparent, structured path to advancing your career, guided by a supportive leadership team. Click here to download our Career Guide for Lawyers.

Get in touch!

Our resourcing team can provide firm insight and an overview of the department to make sure this is the right next career for you.  For a confidential conversation call Chris Jenkinson on 0117 307 2246.

Are you ready to blaze a trail with industry leaders?

Our commitments

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.  As a Disability Confident employer, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

We are committed to finding the right person for this role, and we are open to discussing flexible, full time or part time working patterns. We have a successful hybrid working model, which provides another way for our people to work with flexibility.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.