Company description

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.

More about Nonzerosum

For our client, a young and disruptive business law firm based in Brussels, we are looking for several experienced Lawyers/Partners. Fluent in French and/or Dutch with good knowledge of English.

Our Customer

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.

Tasks

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 wan
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

Profile

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 like to be treated as an adult, without excessive interference or supervision
You are fluent in French and/or Dutch and have a good knowledge of English

Offer

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