Job Description
Employment Lawyer. Elite City Firm. 6 month assignment. 3++ PQE
Our client, an elite city firm in London, is looking for an Employment Lawyer with at least 3 years’ PQE to join them for an assignment of 6 months in duration. The role is to start ASAP and will require 3 days a week in their London office.
The employment team is consistently highly ranked across the legal directories and provides a broad range of employer clients with advice across a full spectrum of contentious, non-contentious, advisory and corporate support matters. Clients range from large multinationals to smaller private and public companies and a notable proportion of their work is cross jurisdictional.
The successful employment lawyer will be given a significant amount of client contact and responsibility whilst working in a collaborative environment. Typically, the successful Employment Associate/Senior Associate can expect to spend 80% of their time on contentious and advisory work and 20% on corporate support matters.
Work could include:
- Senior exits and settlement agreements
- Restrictive covenant breaches, planning team moves
- Grievances and disciplinaries and other contentious advice
- Change projects such as redundancy and TUPE processes
- Drafting contracts, bonus schemes and handbooks
- Gender pay gap reporting, holiday pay and other ad hoc advice
- Tribunal litigation covering unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and discrimination
- High Court Litigation
- Investigations
- TUPE matters
- Employment aspects of corporate deals, investee company executive exits and IPOs
Successful employment lawyers are likely to demonstrate:
- Qualification as a Solicitor (England & Wales qualification is preferable but applications from other commonwealth jurisdictions such as Australia and New Zealand, for example, are welcome)
- Upwards of 3 years’ PQE
- Experience in advising on a full range of Employment law matters
- Exposure gained within leading international and city law firms
- The ability to start a new contract immediately or at short notice
- Excellent attention to detail
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)
This 6 month assignment represents a superb opportunity for the successful employment lawyer to join a market leading, directory ranked, employment team within an elite city firm.
The firm operates a hybrid working arrangement, with individuals generally spending 3 days a week in the London office.
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