In recent years, Nonzerosum has provided legal support to companies of various scales and in a wide variety of sectors. This focus gives us an edge in drawing out the right legal profiles and selecting the appropriate candidate for that crucial position in the organisation.
Here, our network within the legal world and our 3 operating pillars at Nonzerosum provides the right complementarity to attract the most suitable candidates.
Our client is an innovative business law firm with a strong international outlook, offering a radically different, alternative approach to both its clients and its lawyers. It was created by a generation of accomplished lawyers with a vision for a more efficient law firm, bringing a human and fair approach back to law. Its lawyers are given the resources and benefits of a traditional law firm, while maintaining the full freedom to structure their practice themselves in order to meet and surpass client expectations, with an absolute minimum of management interference or pressure.
Using enhanced technological solutions, its lawyers are not confined to their geographical location, and this distributed model gives them the freedom to work where it suits them and structure their services in a way that maximizes the value they can provide to clients.
Headquartered in Brussels, the firm attracts a broad range of international clients looking to capitalise on the experience that its lawyers have gathered practicing law all around Europe. The current team is 18 people strong and growing, and offers a full service to business clients.
- You manage your activity with complete autonomy, supported by the full strength of the firm
- You practice where you want, when you want and how you want
- You work and think independently and proactively, with the possibility of calling on colleagues
- You are capable of working out creative solutions to complex legal issues
- You manage client relationships
- You have at least 5 years’ experience in a leading law firm
- You are a highly skilled lawyer delivering top quality work
- You preferably have a valuable portable business or the potential to develop one
- You are a true entrepreneur, pragmatic and client-oriented, with a commercial mindset
- You are fluent in French and/or Dutch and have a good knowledge of English
- You like to be treated as an adult, without excessive interference or supervision
- A fully revenue-based remuneration
- The possibility to advise clients under the most effective conditions (75-90% of what is billed goes to the lawyers)
- The freedom to set your own rates, which enables you to offer your services at highly competitive terms and allows each lawyer to bill clients as deemed appropriate
- Incentives to refer work to each other, creating an abundance of growth opportunities for all
- The freedom to manage your activities independently, backed by the strength of a full-service international firm
- The freedom to define and develop your professional and personal goals
- No hierarchies or fancy titles. The same terms apply to all, in full fairness, openness and transparency, without fixed charges or billing targets
- A multilingual environment with a strong international outlook
- A collegial culture, regular professional development sessions and social gatherings
- Administrative and structural support, embracing innovative legal technology and modern working practices
- Centrally located meeting rooms and flex desks in Brussels and other cities
- A genuinely positive work-life balance
