# Senior Legal Counsel résumé example

An in-house commercial solicitor back from a career break via part-time consultancy, with the gap dated and explained.

![Senior Legal Counsel résumé example — senior, written for United Kingdom, set in the Obsidian design](https://cvaurum.com/img/examples/senior-legal-counsel.webp)

- Field: Legal
- Career stage: Senior
- Written for: United Kingdom
- Design: Obsidian (https://cvaurum.com/templates/obsidian)
- Open it: https://cvaurum.com/examples/senior-legal-counsel

Every name, employer, address, phone number and figure below is invented.

---

## Iona Fairhurst — Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial & Regulatory

Commercial solicitor with thirteen years in practice, eight of them in-house in energy and retail. Rewrote a supplier contracting programme that took average time to signature from 34 days to 9 and removed £1.1M of unmanaged indemnity exposure.

### Experience

**Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial & Regulatory**, Brightmoor Energy · September 2022 – present

Senior lawyer for the commercial function, reporting to the General Counsel and supervising one paralegal.

- Rewrote supplier contracting around a three-tier playbook, taking average time to signature from 34 days to 9 across the 240 contracts signed each year.
- Advised on the licence conditions for a flexible-tariff product and cleared launch four weeks ahead of the commercial deadline.
- Reduced external counsel spend by £280k a year by bringing data protection and routine procurement work in-house and re-tendering the panel.
- Leads UK GDPR compliance, including a records-of-processing rebuild that closed all 17 findings from the previous audit.

**Consultant Solicitor (part-time)**, Fernhill Legal Consulting · November 2021 – August 2022

Three days a week, returning to practice after a planned career break.

- Renegotiated 68 reseller agreements onto post-Brexit customs and origin terms for a logistics client, finishing the remediation in five months.
- Drafted the data-sharing agreements for a healthcare analytics pilot, accepted by the client’s information governance panel without amendment.

**Planned career break**, Career break · February 2021 – October 2021

Nine months away from practice for full-time family care. Practising certificate kept current and the CIPP/E completed during the period.


**Legal Counsel**, Velbury Retail Group · May 2017 – January 2021

- Ran the legal workstream on the acquisition of a 19-store regional chain, completing diligence in six weeks against an eight-week timetable.
- Replaced 26 bespoke concession agreements with one negotiable schedule used across 340 stores.
- Answered 11 consumer-law complaints referred by Trading Standards and closed every one without formal enforcement action.

**Associate, Commercial**, Kettering Mayne LLP · September 2013 – April 2017

- Advised retail and manufacturing clients on outsourcing and supply agreements worth £6M to £40M, recording 1,650 chargeable hours a year.
- Qualified into the commercial team in 2015 after a training contract covering corporate, disputes and employment seats.

### Education

- LPC Legal Practice Course · BPP University Law School · September 2012 – June 2013
- LLB Law · University of Nottingham · September 2009 – June 2012

### Skills

- **Commercial**: Supply and outsourcing, Reseller agreements, Procurement, Licensing, Contract playbooks
- **Regulatory**: UK GDPR, Energy licence conditions, Consumer protection, Competition compliance, Modern slavery reporting
- **Working with the business**: Panel management, Legal budgeting, Risk escalation, Training delivery, Board reporting