We’re recruiting a restructuring and insolvency lawyer at either Associate or Senior Associate level to join one of the largest teams in the region. A great opportunity to join a firm that has recently announced record-breaking revenue and the strongest ever year-on-year growth.

You'll work on high-profile restructuring and insolvency mandates, work with top-tier restructuring practices and advise a wide range of clients, including UK clearing banks, alternative lenders, private equity, debt funds, trustees, senior executives, shareholders, creditors and major charities. 

You’ll be part of a team that delivers complex, high-value work, all from our single-site office in Leeds. We are well suited to those who want to work on sophisticated matters and , or who want to grow their career in a high-performing, collaborative environment.

You can find out more about joining our Restructuring and insolvency team here.

If you’d like more information or would like to arrange an informal, confidential conversation about the opportunity, please get in touch with our recruitment team.

Ideally, you’ll be from NQ to 4 years PQE and looking to progress your career in a leading full-service firm where the decisions about your future are made by the people you work with every day.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience.
• Earn up to 35% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Paid sabbatical scheme. 
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we’ll contribute a minimum of 5% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office. Please speak to the recruitment team to discuss your flexible working preferences.
• Access to BUPA with no excess or compulsory payments.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer.