Shipping Lawyer – Leading Global Organisation – Interim

Duration: 6 Months
Start Date: ASAP
Working Pattern: 4–5 Days per Week

We’re looking for an experienced Shipping Lawyer to join our client, a leading global organisation, to support them during a period of team transition. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing legal team and advise on a broad range of shipping, freight trading and maritime matters within a complex international business.

The role offers exposure to both contentious and non-contentious shipping law, with a particular focus on supporting day-to-day operations while contributing to strategic projects and longer-term initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Advising on charterparties, including complex negotiations, escalations and strategic matters
• Supporting legal issues arising from freight and shipping operations across energy, commodities and trading activities
• Providing guidance on a wide range of shipping and maritime contracts
• Managing claims and pre-dispute matters
• Assisting with larger disputes and coordinating external support where required
• Contributing to project-based work, including fleet and shipping-related strategic initiatives
• Partnering closely with commercial stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, business-focused legal advice
• Handling a varied portfolio of shipping law matters across multiple workstreams
• Acting as a trusted legal adviser, operating with a high degree of autonomy

About You

You will be a qualified lawyer with at least 3 years' + PQE and strong experience in shipping and maritime law. You should be comfortable working independently and advising on a broad range of legal issues within a fast-paced commercial environment.

In-house experience is advantageous but not essential.

We will also consider commodities trading lawyers with experience supporting crude oil, refined products or broader trading businesses.

What's on Offer?

• A high-profile interim assignment within a global organisation
• Broad exposure to operational and strategic shipping legal matters
• Significant autonomy and stakeholder interaction
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced commercial and legal professionals
• Flexible working arrangements

If you are an experienced shipping or commodities lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Join LOD?
People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD
LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.