Senior Lawyer
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £71,725 to £87,612 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 February 2026 |
| Location: | Bristol, Croydon, Leeds, Manchester, Stratford |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | HMRC |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 447591 |
Summary
We are a diverse team of over 1,725 professionals - including lawyers, tax specialists, advocates, and administrators - who provide legal services across HMRC. Our work includes advising on tax, customs, commercial, public, criminal, and international trade law, supporting both operational decisions and major policy initiatives and advising on new legislation, including drafting secondary legislation.
As a Senior Lawyer (G6), you’ll play a key leadership role, managing high-profile legal work and contributing to the wider leadership of HMRC Legal Group and HMRC. You’ll collaborate with policy teams, senior stakeholders, and external partners to drive solutions in a dynamic legal environment.
The Role
We have multiple vacancies for Senior Lawyers in both litigation and advisory teams. You may be appointed to one of two roles:
✅ Mini-Team Leader – Leading a small team of lawyers within a larger Deputy Director led team, overseeing casework and/or projects, and driving strategic legal initiatives.
✅ Specialist Senior Lawyer – Acting as a subject matter expert on complex litigation or advisory projects, mentoring colleagues, and leading complex legal projects and driving strategic legal initiatives.
Both these roles offer an exciting opportunity to be involved in the leadership of key government legal work and to contribute to the wider leadership of HMRC Legal Group and HMRC.
Successful candidates will be allocated a role which will be determined by business need at the time of taking up appointment.
Job description
Senior Lawyer
Lawyers will be expected to take responsibility for leading their areas of work, be it, high value litigation, leading projects or managing the delivery of a specific area of legal work. They will be accountable for the delivery and management of significant volumes of complex, high profile work and need to have the ability to work collaboratively with policy teams and senior stakeholders to achieve Departmental objectives.
In addition, we expect our Grade 6 Senior Lawyers to be able to work collaboratively across HMRC Legal Group, HMRC, the Government Legal Profession (GLP) and external stakeholders as appropriate, taking into account wider issues when delivering advice and contributing to the leadership of our organisation.
Our G6 Senior Lawyers need to have excellent legal professional skills, the ability to provide robust risk based legal advice and to effectively supervise the provision of legal advice of others they are leading.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop within two core areas, law and leadership. We have developed a structured and fully supported leadership and management development programme.
Please refer to the current role profiles for Grade 6 Team Leaders and Grade 6 Specialist Lawyer roles. These set out our expectations of Senior lawyers for these roles.
Through this campaign we seek to fill multiple roles across a full range of teams and specialisms, both for vacancies now as well as those anticipated before this campaign concludes. Within our lawyer community there are also regular opportunities to broaden skills and experience, switch between specialist and team leader roles and work in different teams. It is expected that during a career within HMRC Legal Group, Senior Lawyers move between specialist and management roles, depending on business need. We, therefore, encourage applications that demonstrate experience and capabilities across the full range of legal roles.
The candidate pack includes more information about HMRC Legal Group, the work that we do, an outline for the roles and responsibilities of an HMRC Legal Group Senior Lawyer and the selection process.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Essential Criteria
Solicitors, Barristers or Chartered Legal Executives must have completed a training contract/pupillage/qualifying employment or have been exempted from this by the Law Society, the Bar Council or CILEx. Chartered Legal Executives must have a Qualifying Law Degree or have completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)/CPE or have passed exams (i.e. a score of 50% or above achieved) at CILEx Level 6, in all the seven foundation subjects in law: contract law, criminal law, equity and trusts law, European Union Law, land law, public law and law of tort.
You will need to be qualified as a Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive and able to practice as such in England and Wales.
Further Background on qualification requirements:
If you are a qualified lawyer in a jurisdiction outside England and Wales, we need you to become qualified in England and Wales within 2 years of starting employment with us, and your employment will be conditional upon you successfully becoming qualified within this time. This may cause you some cost. Further information on qualification is available from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
As a Senior Lawyer (G6), you’ll play a key leadership role, managing high-profile legal work and contributing to the wider leadership of HMRC Legal Group and HMRC. You’ll collaborate with policy teams, senior stakeholders, and external partners to drive solutions in a dynamic legal environment.
The Role
We have multiple vacancies for Senior Lawyers in both litigation and advisory teams. You may be appointed to one of two roles:
✅ Mini-Team Leader – Leading a small team of lawyers within a larger Deputy Director led team, overseeing casework and/or projects, and driving strategic legal initiatives.
✅ Specialist Senior Lawyer – Acting as a subject matter expert on complex litigation or advisory projects, mentoring colleagues, and leading complex legal projects and driving strategic legal initiatives.
Both these roles offer an exciting opportunity to be involved in the leadership of key government legal work and to contribute to the wider leadership of HMRC Legal Group and HMRC.
Successful candidates will be allocated a role which will be determined by business need at the time of taking up appointment.
Job description
Senior Lawyer
Lawyers will be expected to take responsibility for leading their areas of work, be it, high value litigation, leading projects or managing the delivery of a specific area of legal work. They will be accountable for the delivery and management of significant volumes of complex, high profile work and need to have the ability to work collaboratively with policy teams and senior stakeholders to achieve Departmental objectives.
In addition, we expect our Grade 6 Senior Lawyers to be able to work collaboratively across HMRC Legal Group, HMRC, the Government Legal Profession (GLP) and external stakeholders as appropriate, taking into account wider issues when delivering advice and contributing to the leadership of our organisation.
Our G6 Senior Lawyers need to have excellent legal professional skills, the ability to provide robust risk based legal advice and to effectively supervise the provision of legal advice of others they are leading.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop within two core areas, law and leadership. We have developed a structured and fully supported leadership and management development programme.
Please refer to the current role profiles for Grade 6 Team Leaders and Grade 6 Specialist Lawyer roles. These set out our expectations of Senior lawyers for these roles.
Through this campaign we seek to fill multiple roles across a full range of teams and specialisms, both for vacancies now as well as those anticipated before this campaign concludes. Within our lawyer community there are also regular opportunities to broaden skills and experience, switch between specialist and team leader roles and work in different teams. It is expected that during a career within HMRC Legal Group, Senior Lawyers move between specialist and management roles, depending on business need. We, therefore, encourage applications that demonstrate experience and capabilities across the full range of legal roles.
The candidate pack includes more information about HMRC Legal Group, the work that we do, an outline for the roles and responsibilities of an HMRC Legal Group Senior Lawyer and the selection process.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Essential Criteria
Solicitors, Barristers or Chartered Legal Executives must have completed a training contract/pupillage/qualifying employment or have been exempted from this by the Law Society, the Bar Council or CILEx. Chartered Legal Executives must have a Qualifying Law Degree or have completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)/CPE or have passed exams (i.e. a score of 50% or above achieved) at CILEx Level 6, in all the seven foundation subjects in law: contract law, criminal law, equity and trusts law, European Union Law, land law, public law and law of tort.
You will need to be qualified as a Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive and able to practice as such in England and Wales.
Further Background on qualification requirements:
If you are a qualified lawyer in a jurisdiction outside England and Wales, we need you to become qualified in England and Wales within 2 years of starting employment with us, and your employment will be conditional upon you successfully becoming qualified within this time. This may cause you some cost. Further information on qualification is available from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB).