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Careers at STA

Welcome to STA’s online recruitment 2023 - 2024

Our ambition to be the most successful and goal-oriented law firm underpins our business strategy. We aim to succeed in this by making a significant amount of investment into managing and developing our knowledge and information, thereby creating a work culture that enables our team to offer consistently high standards of client service.

STA is known for its diversity across four integral areas – geography, language, culture, and practice. Every position displayed on STA's recruitment site foresees that each applicant should possess illustrious managerial and organizational skills, as well as a drive to grow professionally with the STA team. A successful candidate will have an unparalleled professional expertise, experience, and personal integrity. In consideration of new recruitment, we take pride in understanding the candidate's motivation to be a part of STA as well as their desire the make a difference at our firm. In doing so, every application will be carefully examined by our recruitment team. We value and respect each candidate's spirited desire to join the firm, and each of our offices receives several numbers of applicants.  Please note that we will only get in touch with successful and shortlisted applications and we wish you a very successful and fruitful career.

Core Values

At STA, we are proud of the multicultural environment we offer, providing legal professionals from a variety of jurisdictions. This, in turn, provides all professionals at our firm with an excellent stepping stone for further growth and development.

In return, we promise whoever joins us will never be disappointed and will continuously feel proud of the personal growth and career development gained through their STA experience. A career with STA is an opportunity to become a part of an international law firm, spanning many jurisdictions and international matters, as well as being rooted firmly in the United Arab Emirates with the exceptional expertise of the local law and customs.

Our Culture

At STA, we are focused on engaging, creating and maintaining the best individuals for our training and business administrations gatherings. Our continued results depend on our capacity to give a steady, comprehensive and inspiring working environment where everybody has a task to carry out in supporting the delivery of exceptional support to our customers. We are looking for very skilled individuals who can exhibit an affinity with our qualities to enable us to accomplish our vision of turning into a leading worldwide Law Firm. 
 

Prospects for New Budding Interns for 2023-24

STA is well known for providing law students working opportunities to kick-start their legal career. Additionally, our law graduates receive training on their limited skill set to enable them to move onto the next step of their legal journey confidently. We look for students who are not only academically well versed but also carry excellent communication and analytical skills. By working in the Dubai office, you will get a firm grounding in international law by working with over 70 professionals speaking more than 30 languages.

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Current Job Vacancies

Position Practice Area Closing Date Office Location Reporting

Description: STA is an international law firm, that has garnered multiple awards, and is recognized for having one of the most collaborative and cohesive working cultures in the UAE. This practice powerhouse is now looking for a specific Real Estate Partner to lead the team. This role is offered on a full-time basis.

To be considered for a role in this very highly regarded team, you must possess excellent academics; training and a minimum of 3-5 years' post-qualification experience from a well-regarded city or international law firm; strong legal and analytical skills, a proactive and confident attitude with a high level of initiative; excellent communication, professionalism and interpersonal skills. It goes without saying that language skills would be very highly regarded.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years PQE
  • Minimum of 5-7 experience in Real Estate and Contract Law
  • Experience in drafting construction and real estate agreements such as Alease agreements, construction agreements, consultancy agreements, etc.
  •  A thorough understanding of legal risk assessment and appraisal of real estate developments, and commercial structures
  • A track record of business development and strong commercial acumen
  • Established client contacts is a prerequisite

Application: While submitting your application, please name your CV in the following way: starting with the initials of your name, age, and country code, years of experience, and the office you are applying for. Let us take for instance, a candidate named Mrs. Jane Doe with two years of experience, age 23, from the USA, looking to join the Abu Dhabi office. In this case, the application sent by Ms. Jane Doe should be named as: JD- 23USA -02AD.

Note that candidates who do not meet the required criteria will not be contacted.

 

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Description: STA is an international law firm, that has garnered multiple awards, and is recognized for having one of the most collaborative and cohesive working cultures in the UAE. This practice powerhouse is now looking for a specific Corporate Partner to lead the corporate team. This role is offered on a full-time basis.

To be considered for a role in this very highly regarded team, you must possess excellent academics; training and a minimum of 3-5 years' post-qualification experience from a well-regarded city or international law firm; strong legal and analytical skills, a proactive and confident attitude with a high level of initiative; excellent communication, professionalism and interpersonal skills. It goes without saying that language skills would be very highly regarded.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years PQE in the Corporate practice
  • A track record of business development and strong commercial acumen
  • Established client contacts is a prerequisite

Application: While submitting your application, please name your CV in the following way: starting with the initials of your name, age, and country code, years of experience, and the office you are applying for. Let us take for instance, a candidate named Mrs. Jane Doe with two years of experience, age 23, from the USA, looking to join the Abu Dhabi office. In this case, the application sent by Ms. Jane Doe should be named as: JD- 23USA -02AD.

Note that candidates who do not meet the required criteria will not be contacted.

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Description: STA is an international law firm, that has garnered multiple awards, and is recognized for having one of the most collaborative and cohesive working cultures in the UAE. This practice powerhouse is now looking for a specific Aviation Partner to lead the team. This role is offered on a full-time basis.

To be considered for a role in this very highly regarded team, you must possess excellent academics; training and a minimum of 3-5 years' post-qualification experience from a well-regarded city or international law firm; strong legal and analytical skills, a proactive and confident attitude with a high level of initiative; excellent communication, professionalism and interpersonal skills. It goes without saying that language skills would be very highly regarded.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years PQE
  • Five (5) or more years of related experience in labor and/or aviation law practice and litigation required, and seven (7) or more years preferred. At management discretion, significant and in-depth, directly applicable, labor and/or litigation experience may be substituted for some of the aforementioned requirements.
  • Knowledge of aviation statutes and administrative proceedings strongly preferred.
  • A track record of business development and strong commercial acumen
  • Established client contacts is a prerequisite

Application: While submitting your application, please name your CV in the following way: starting with the initials of your name, age, and country code, years of experience, and the office you are applying for. Let us take for instance, a candidate named Mrs. Jane Doe with two years of experience, age 23, from the USA, looking to join the Abu Dhabi office. In this case, the application sent by Ms. Jane Doe should be named as: JD- 23USA -02AD.

Note that candidates who do not meet the required criteria will not be contacted.

 

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