Employment Associate/Senior Associate 4+ PQE (Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds)

Description

Building relationships, both externally with our clients and across our internal teams, is key. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with regulatory and commercial colleagues. You will ideally have some TUPE and transactional experience.

• Supervision of junior colleagues
• Reviewing/drafting policies
• Undertaking transactional due diligence, often as part of a wider corporate or commercial transaction with multidisciplinary teams
• Manage your own caseload across both contentious and non-contentious work areas
• Advising on employee relations issues including settlement negotiations
• Work with and support a number of our partner leads and colleagues across all four of our offices
• Delivering training and actively contributing towards business development activities
• Provide management and supervisory support to junior colleagues
• Advising on restructures/redundancy processes

Requirements

We are looking for either an Associate or Senior Associate (4+ PQE) to join us, based in our Bristol, Birmingham or Leeds office (with flexible hybrid working), ideally with experience in one or more of the sectors above.

• Strong litigation and/or advocacy experience and a capability and desire to manage complex, high profile litigation as part of a team
• TUPE experience including drafting/negotiating related warranties and indemnities and advising on workforce aspects of commercial transactions, including information and consultation processes
• Good client management skills and an interest in business development
• A broad range of employment experience, ideally gained across one or more of our key markets above

Benefits

Our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team continues to be a market leader across a range of sectors including the local and central government, health and care insurance and finance, commercial, higher education and housing sectors.

As a firm we embrace our differences, we act responsibly, now and for the future and we support you to be your best through our hybrid working model and professional development opportunities.

You will also have the opportunity to undertake a variety of work-types from transactional, to advisory support, to contentious work. The depth and breadth of the markets in which we operate will provide the opportunity and flexibility to work on novel and complex employment law issues.

Supported by valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams work together to support almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

We offer a structured career pathway to meet both your and our needs.

As a member of the national employment practice the primary focus of your role will be working in the following sectors: local and central government, health, commercial services, and housing but with opportunities to work in higher education and financial services too.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance