Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel  *LI-SS1

Location: Dublin

ICON plc, a leading Contract Research Organisation, employing approximately 13,100 employees across 97 offices in 38 countries, seeks an ambitious and highly motivated legal counsel to join its Legal Department at its Leopardstown Global HQ.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and hardworking legal counsel to join ICON’s highly professional and experienced in-house legal department to support the negotiation and execution of contracts on a global basis.

Based in our global HQ, this is a fantastic opportunity to join one of Ireland’s largest legal teams in a position where you can make an impact globally and support ICON’s mission to help its clients to accelerate the development of drugs and medical devices that save patient lives and improve their quality of life.

The Role

The successful applicant will be part of a global legal team that supports the negotiation of clinical trial contracts with healthcare institutions and healthcare professional across the world. You will provide legal support to ICON and its clients’ clinical operations and Study Start Up teams in relation to all legal aspects of the setup of new global clinical trial studies.

Role responsibilities include:

• Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts on ICON’s behalf such as confidentiality agreements, clinical study service agreements, ancillary service agreements and consultancy agreements.
• Manage client relationships with client legal teams in relation to clinical study start-up.
• Maintain and revise standard contract template library for ICON.
• Create and apply fall-back to ICON standard contract templates for the negotiation of contracts.
• Support the management of contract disputes and investigations which arise from time to time.
• Act as a trusted legal advisor to ICON clinical and study set up operational teams.
• Maintain and update standard process documents for contract negotiation.
• Provide training to clinical staff on key aspects of ICON’s commercial contracts.
• Advise non-legal staff on contract language and negotiations, requests outside of established negotiation parameters, and all other pertinent information toward the execution of contract-related documents for a given clinical study.

Experience & Knowledge Requirements:

• Commercial contract negotiation and drafting experience working in-house or for a law firm preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Large law firm or corporate plc or pharmaceutical/CRO/biotech industry experience, a plus.
• Ability to manage a high volume of work
• Ambition to progress to management role within ICON legal team over time.
• Solutions focused with a strong work ethic. 
• Possess strong negotiation, diplomacy and excellent organizational ability.
• Team player and relationship builder with strong intrapersonal, communication, organization and time management skills.

Education Requirements:

• LLB or equivalent law degree.
• 2 -5 years PQE  

Benefits of Working in ICON:

ICON enjoys a strong reputation for quality and is focused on staff development.  We make it our mission to attract the most diverse and creative minds into the business and we continually strive to provide opportunities for our people to excel, grow and build a great career. 

We understand that our greatest asset is the skills and talents of our people and they are truly what set us apart.  Other than working with a great team of smart and energetic people, we also offer a very competitive benefits package.  This varies from country to country so a dedicated recruiter will discuss this with you at interview stage. We care about our people as they are the key to our success. We provide an open and friendly work environment where we empower people and provide them with opportunities to develop their long term career.