Job Description

Main information

Closing date

31/10/2025

Term type

Contract

Duration

6 months

Working hours

9.15 - 5.15

Department

Dispute Resolution

Location

Gatwick

The firm

DMH Stallard provides a comprehensive range of commercial, dispute resolution and litigation, employment, cyber security and cyber-crime, corporate, intellectual property, real estate and technology, media and telecoms advice to both businesses and individuals. Our clients, our people and our professional networks are the keys to our success.. With offices in London and across the region, including Brighton, Gatwick, Guildford, Horsham, and Hassocks - we're proud to have grown to around 380 people.


Culture really matters to us. In our most recent staff survey, 99.6% of our people said DMH is a great place to work, with 90% feeling they have a strong work-life balance, and 93.9% expressing confidence in the leadership team.


We're committed to building a genuinely inclusive and supportive workplace. Our Women in Law group meets quarterly, and we're actively working toward gender balance at all levels. We already exceed the industry average, with 40% of our partners being women compared to the sector average at 29%.


We actively invest in learning and development at all career stages. Our mentoring programme is available to all partners, and we are preparing to launch an internal mentoring programme to support progression right up to partnership. We also recognise that work-life balance is essential to long-term success and wellbeing, and we promote hybrid working arrangements to help our people perform at their best inside and outside of work.


We're also especially proud to achieve gold accreditation from Investors in People, which reflects our strong commitment to people development and leadership.

The department

Our Dispute Resolution Team handle all manner of disputes from corporate and commercial matters to debt recovery, insolvency, technology, media, telecoms and personal injury.

Job Purpose:

To operate as an effective member of the Dispute Resolution Group based in the Gatwick office To provide legal & administrative support to fee-earners within Dispute Resolution group To work with and assist members of the team, in particular, in delivering a large scale data review and rectification project, to include conducting a range of searches, updating spreadsheets and analysing, interpreting and reporting on information that is obtained. In particular, a high level of accuracy and attention to detail is required, along with a strong team work ethic We would expect your role to develop as experience allows within the project

Other information

Responsibilities and Duties

Personal

To participate and contribute to the Gatwick Dispute Resolution Group to ensure an effective working environment, supporting all members of the project team as appropriate, including working on the project described above To attend and contribute to Group Meetings Continuously develop their own technical expertise To promote the vision and culture of the Firm Annually participate in Appraisal/Objective meetings To maintain a culture where individuals are encouraged to identify problems or mistakes and are encouraged to "speak up" to ensure issues are resolved

Client Care

To be responsible for the delivery of the service to the client, ensuring that the highest standards of client care are maintained so that clients use DMHS again and recommend the firm to others

Risk

To be fully familiar with the Money Laundering and FSMA Policies and Procedures and to ensure full compliance with them Conforming to the risk management procedures as stated by the firm * Attend regular meetings with the Group to review all current work and workloads