Solicitor - Employment Law

The role will be focused on advising on a wide range of employment issues and undertaking a variety of contentious and noncontentious work including:

• Reorganisations ;
  
• Disciplinaries and grievances ;
  
• M&A transactional work due diligence and corporate support;
  
• Drafting employment contracts staff handbooks consultancy agreements NDAs settlement agreements etc;
  
• TUPE;
  
• Employment status;
  
• Day to day advice on employment law issues; and
  
• Tribunal / Court work
  
• Some experience of Employment Tribunal process.
  
• A focus on having had experience in advising employer clients is essential. Some experience in having advised individual clients would be helpful.
  
• Someone who is able to make decisions advise clients and act with a degree of autonomy (with appropriate support).
  

Requirements

The Individual

• Will have both contentious and non contentious experience and ideally will have acted for both employers and senior employees.
  
• Will have strong academics
  
• Will have high quality training and experience
  
• Will be ambitious technically strong hard working and a good team player.
  
• Will be confident and sociable as well as discrete when dealing directly with clients.
  

Personal skills

• Self motivated
  
• Strong communication skills
  
• Team player
  
• Ability to be proactive and reactive in addressing clients affairs and requirements
  
• Ability to help build upon the firm s existing business
  
• Ability to get on well with the clients who cover a broad spectrum
  
• Achieve minimum time targets and billing requirements
  
• Ability to keep abreast with changes in legislation and market developments
  
• A practical working knowledge of IT
  
• Flexibility dedication and ambition are essential attributes.
  

Benefits

• 4x Life Assurance
  
• Permanent Health Insurance
  
• Medical Insurance (after successful completion of probation period)
  
• BUPA Cashplan (after successful completion of probation period)
  
• BUPA Health Assessment (after successful completion of probation period)
  
• BUPA Dental
  
• Auto enrolment in the firm s Group Personal Pension Scheme (after 1 complete calendar month qualifying period).
  
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme and Introduction Bonus Scheme
  
• Interest free season ticket loan after 3 months
  
• Cycle to Work Scheme
  
• Holiday Purchase
  
• Wellbeing Programme
  
• Gymflex