Overview
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Department: Employment, Pensions and Immigration - North • Location: Bristol
Description
DACB's Employment team acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The Bristol team is part of DACB's national Employment, Pensions and Immigration team comprising 120+ lawyers, operating from six locations: London, Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, and Dublin. The national team is one of the largest employment law teams in the country. The Bristol team has a strong reputation and undertakes work for the national team’s clients, in tandem with our London team and for select clients in the South West England market.
The spread of sectors includes financial services clients and household name corporates, and the team is a market leader in the public and independent health sectors. For more information on our Employment and Pensions expertise visit our site.
Responsibilities
* Undertake a busy and varied workload of employment matters advising all types of employers.
* Work on complex discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract litigation (Employment Tribunal and High Court) under appropriate supervision.
* Assist on non-contentious projects including restructures (redundancy and TUPE) in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions.
* General employment advisory work by telephone and email.
* Take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and paralegals.
* Take part in and initiate marketing, networking and other business development activities to maintain and develop work from existing and potential clients, including client seminars and delivering training.
* Contribute to non fee-earning activity such as knowledge sharing and internal training.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* We would expect the post holder to be a qualified Solicitor – ideally 2-5 years PQE.
* Ideally experience advising clients in the financial services sector and with multi-national commercial or public sector clients.
* Must have experience of working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters.
* Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions for clients.
* Confident communicator with the ability to develop relationships with clients and influence at all levels.
* Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach.
We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We encourage discussion about flexible working during the hiring process.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams will not be accepted.
For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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