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 a top-tier firm in a number of areas of business law by The Legal 500, Chambers, Who’s Who Legal and IFLR, as well as in specialized IP directories such as IP Stars and WTR 1000.
- We have been widely recognised as the undisputed leader in the most innovative, underexplored, and dynamic legal areas, where law and technologies merge.
- Our IP and Life Sciences practices have seen substantial growth, we have been advising on a daily basis some of the market leaders in the pharma sector on IP and Life Sciences matters, and we want to further develop these areas.
- We successfully combine consultancy with strong dispute-resolution practice, including outstanding regulatory litigation capacity.
About your role
As a Lawyer in our IP you will provide various 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 and senior lawyers, working with other fee-earners, delegating work, and supervising junior lawyers. Most of the legal work will be related to intellectual property consultancy (including trademark prosecution and litigation, copyright licencing, IP due diligence and cross-border transactional work) as well as advising in the area of healthcare regulations. Responsibilities often require providing advice on competition law, consumer regulations, ICT law and data protection, employment, distribution, franchising and licencing contracts, as well as on various industry-specific regulations. Clients you will advise come from a wide variety of industries – pharma, IT, telecom, gambling, media, tourism, transport, manufacturing, banking, fintech, consumer electronics, etc.
What DPC offers
Inspiring company 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 an advanced remote working (work-from-home) policy
- We support each other so that together we can deliver services of the highest quality
- We share our knowledge and skills, and endeavor to contribute to the development of each member of our team
- 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
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 skills and “helping others become leaders” attitude are 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 be encouraged to 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
A competitive compensation model where:
- 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 two years of experience as a lawyer
- Any of the following would be considered an advantage:
- ~~Fluency in other languages
- ~~ 2 or more years ofexperience in the area of intellectual property law (trademarks, designs, copyright and neighbouring rights, patents, etc.)
- ~~More than 5 years of legal experience
- ~~Experience in international law firm(s) or in in-house team(s) of large corporation(s)
- ~~Experience in the areas of life sciences, competition/antitrust, information technology, TMT, М&А and/or employment
- ~~Experience in regulated industries such as pharma, telecommunication, media, food production and processing, energy
- ~~Experience in dispute resolution, including regulatory litigation
- ~~LLM or other additional legal qualification from a respected foreign legal education provider
- ~~Qualification as an IP attorney registered with the Bulgarian Patent Office
If you are interested in the position, we would be happy to receive your CV and a cover letter no later than January 16th.
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.
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