About us
Six things you need to know about DPC:
- We believe that clients deserve the best possible legal care at the speed of business.
- We strive to succeed by creating a team of forward-thinking talents whom we aspire to offer the finest place to practice law in Bulgaria.
- We have been consistently ranked as Top-tier firm in a number of areas of business law by The Legal 500, Chambers and IFLR1000.
- We have been widely recognised as the undisputed leader in the most innovative, underexplored, and dynamic legal areas, where law and technologies merge.
- Our Corporate and M&A practice has seen substantial growth and we want to further develop this area.
- We successfully combine consultancy with strong dispute resolution practice, including outstanding regulatory litigation capacity.
About your role
As an experienced Lawyer in our Corporate & Commercial Team, you will provide a very wide range of legal services to a diverse client base, ranging from young entrepreneurial businesses to substantial public and private corporations. The role will involve supporting the partners, working with other fee-earners, delegating work and supervising junior lawyers. To provide the best possible legal care for our clients and due to the dynamics of the business, our Corporate & Commercial Team is expected to maintain a cross-sectoral expertise in a broad range of other legal areas. We are often supporting our other teams on different projects. Therefore, your responsibilities will often require providing advice on employment law, IP and life sciences, real estate and tax matters, as well as on various industry-specific regulations. Clients you will advise come from a wide variety of industries – energy, pharma, IT, media, tourism, transport, manufacturing, banking, fintech, etc.
What DPC offers
Inspiring firm culture where:
- We work hard and require “get it done” and “I’ve got this” attitude, but we also value and care about work/life balance of our talents
- We have flexible remote working (work-from-home) policy
- We support each other so that together we can deliver highest service quality
- We share our knowledge and skills, and endeavor to contribute to the development of others
- We work in an informal and friendly atmosphere of respect and trust in which we put efficiency and common sense above policies and processes
- We provide timely and specific feedback about performance and personal development
- We have young leadership with constant strive for improvement and development of the firm
- Firm leaders’ main job is to create other leaders
Proven opportunities for personal development and growth where:
- Career growth within the firm depends on performance and is based on a clear and well-established feedback and evaluation process
- We encourage our talents to embrace business development activities in which they can rely on the support of a dedicated and competent Marketing and Business Development team which guides and assists them to achieve outstanding results
- We invest heavily to train our lawyers and require that they enhance their professional knowledge, as well as their personal skills and competence
- Leadership and helping others become leaders is required and valued
- Firm partnership is open and becoming a Partner is achievable by every lawyer in the firm
Diversified legal work and professional challenges where:
- You will further develop and enhance your expertise in a broad range of legal areas and industries by learning from bright legal minds
- You will do interesting and complex legal work and provide international standard of client service
- You will actively communicate with clients at the earliest possible stage
- You will get to meet, communicate and advise some of the finest business leaders and top-management of leading companies in various industries
- You will work with some of the biggest global law firms, including Magic Circle firms and you will collaborate with top-level general counsel of large corporations
- You will be required to translate complex legal problems into simple and clear business-oriented advice
- You will be required to be honest with clients and invariably deliver on your promises
- You will have to be available to clients and colleagues and achieve this based on team effort and timely communication instead of compromising on work/life balance
- We do not spare efforts and we never compromise on quality of service and the integrity expected from the legal profession
Unique compensation model where:
- We offer fixed entry level remuneration which is significantly enhanced by a comprehensive bonus model kicking in from the positions of Senior Associate and above
- Successful business development activities are highly valued on the career path to senior fee-earner positions where they are rewarded based on the turnover from attracted business
- Client care and creating long-term client relationships is a shortcut to partnership where it is additionally compensated
Candidate Profile and Requirements
- Master’s degree in Law
- Strong academic record
- Fluency in English
- At least 2 years of experience in the area of corporate and commercial law
- Any of the following would be considered advantages:
- ~~Fluency in other languages
- ~~More than 5 years of experience
- ~~Experience in an international law firm or in an in-house team of a large corporation
- ~~Experience in the areas of employment law, IP and life sciences, real estate and tax matters
If you are interested in the position, we would be happy to receive your CV and a cover letter no later than October 10th.
Applications will be processed in strict confidentiality. Your personal data will be processed for recruitment purposes only in strict compliance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation and Personal Data Protection Act and will in no case be transmitted to third parties. You can exercise all your rights related to your personal data such as the right to information, right to access, rectification, restriction the processing or erasure of your data and right to object against the processing or to file a complaint to the competent data protection authority as provided by the applicable personal data protection legislation. For more detailed information on how we process your personal data and your rights regarding the processing, please refer to our Privacy Policy which contains further details on the categories of data we process, the purposes, the legal basis and the terms for the processing.
By sending your application you confirm that you have read and acknowledged our privacy policy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
