The role
Adamson
Jones has an outstanding opportunity for a qualified trade mark attorney not
yet at partnership level to join our growing trade mark team at one of our
offices around the United Kingdom. This
role has arisen following an exciting period of growth for Adamson Jones as a
forward-thinking firm of patent and trade mark attorneys uniquely positioned within
the Gateley professional services group.
The team
Adamson
Jones is a growing firm of patent and trade mark attorneys. We are part of
Gateley, which is a legal and professional services group employing around 1,500
people at offices across the UK. Adamson
Jones is unique in the UK profession, being a standalone patent and trade mark
attorney firm working within this wider professional services group. Our attorneys have the opportunity to work
closely with solicitors and other professional advisers operating in a wide
range of areas including corporate transactions, commercial agreements and
disputes.
In
June 2015, Gateley became the UK’s first commercial law firm to list on the AIM
market of the London Stock Exchange.
Since then, Gateley have acquired a number of professional services
businesses and legal practices, which offer clients a full and varied range of
complementary business services. It is within this progressive culture at
Gateley that Adamson Jones is growing and expanding its reach though other
Gateley offices.
Our
clients include a range of small start-ups and established private companies to
large corporations, as well as overseas firms based across the world. The majority of our work is for UK-based
clients across a wide range of commercial sectors and involves work across all
areas of trade mark attorney practice including conducting clearance searches,
drafting and filing trade mark applications throughout the world, managing
watching services and advising clients about potential conflicts, and handling
oppositions and cancellation proceedings and associated settlement negotiations.
We
have a very strong support team including certified IP administrators who are
client facing and support our trade mark attorneys to ensure casework is handled
efficiently. We are committed to
excellence in our work and we have a strong team ethos, with everyone at
Adamson Jones and Gateley committed to working together to achieve the best for
our clients.
The person
Candidates
will ideally have at least two years of post-qualification experience and be
capable of taking over responsibility for an existing caseload, as well as
assisting with the continued growth of the trade mark practice as a whole, including
through working closely with other professionals within the Gateley group. Ideal candidates will have the ambition to develop
their career and become a senior member of our growing trade mark team.
We
offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package that includes a
performance-related bonus scheme, contributory pension and private medical
insurance. The position may be based any
one of the Gateley offices located around the United Kingdom, including London,
Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in addition to our head office in Nottingham.
We
can also offer flexibility in home/office working arrangements subject to at
least two days per week being spent in any one of the Gateley offices. The
position also comes with opportunities to attend conferences including INTA and
participate in other business development activities, as well as opportunities
to be involved in internal CPD activities and the training of existing and
future trainees. Although this is a full-time position, applications form
candidates who are only able to work three or four days per week will also be
considered.