About Us

Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory.

By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.

Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.

Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has worked on many of the most significant global cases involving securities fraud, market manipulation and financial cartels of the past decade, contributing expert opinions, and advising global law firms, institutional investors and regulators.

About this Role

We are seeking a Senior Legal Technical Writer to support our Financial and Securities Litigation team on a fixed term contract basis. This role is focused on effective writing: the ability to transform complex economic findings and financial data into authoritative and clear expert reports intended for legal audiences. Our ideal candidate will have fluency in both the language of financial markets, and the rigor of legal standards, ensuring that our final work product is both technically accurate and strategically impactful.

Our ideal candidate would be either a securities and/or financial lawyer, a technical legal writer, a paralegal with experience of report writing, or a financial journalist.

This could either be based in our New York office, or work remotely from any location in the US. Applicants for this role should include a thoughtful cover letter explaining their interest in our role, along with a sample of their report writing skills.

Key Accountabilities

Some notable responsibilities will include: 

Produce effective, high-quality technical reports (e.g., expert report) for active financial and securities litigation.
Distill complex econometric models into clear, concise narratives written for a legal audience.
Manage the end-to-end editing process, ensuring that every document reflects our brand style and tone of voice, and logical flow.
Verifying that all legal and financial terminology is used with absolute precision to withstand the scrutiny of opposing counsel.
Work closely with economists and analysts to ensure that the written narrative accurately and effectively reflects the underlying data and methodology.

Key Skills and Attributes

The successful candidate will have:

A proven track record of explaining complex topics in simple terms. You must be able to write for an audience of judges, regulators, and top-tier litigators.
A solid understanding of financial markets (e.g., derivatives, fixed income, equities) and a commitment to fair and transparent market practices.
The ability to understand data-heavy research and translate it into a compelling written argument.
Excellent editorial judgment, and attention to voice, tone and detail.
A strong record of success with a relevant degree (e.g., Law/JD, Economics, Financial Journalism etc.),and experience in technical writing.
An uncompromising eye for detail regarding citations, logical structure, and evidentiary standards.
Strong project organizational skills, able to meet deadlines.
Integrity, and a creative, curious mind.
A high level of accountability, and not afraid to express and opinion and offer new solutions.

Work Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must have the right to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a U.S employment visa at this time.

What We Offer

You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.

We offer competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.

We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.

Our Benefits

Transparent Pay

We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.

Continuous Learning

We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon-holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.

Benefits

We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.

Application Process

Applying

To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.

Pre-Interview Assessments

Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required.

Interviews

For the majority of our roles, we have a three stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client) and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally it is a chance for us to get to know each other better.

A typical interview process would look a bit like this:

First Interview: Technical with a team member
Second Interview: Cultural fit interview
Final Interview: Technical interview

Questions

If you have any questions about our process, please contact us at careers@fideres.com.