Solicitor

University of Edinburgh Information Services Group

Solicitor providing practical legal support across various projects at The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI. Involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements.

Posted 6/22/2026part-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £41,064 - £48,822 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide practical legal and contractual support across a wide range of projects, programmes, and partnerships.
Support drafting, review, negotiation, and management of commercial and collaboration agreements.
Provide legal guidance to colleagues on day-to-day matters.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Relevant legal qualifications.
Experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and collaboration agreements.
Practical legal and contractual support experience.
Ability to provide proportionate legal guidance on day-to-day matters.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A competitive salary.
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options.

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Hard Skills & Tools

drafting agreementsreviewing agreementsnegotiating agreementscontractual supportlegal guidance

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solving

Certifications

legal qualifications