We are recruiting for a Associate or Senior Associate to join our growing Employment team in Bristol or Manchester. This is an excellent opportunity to join a Chambers UK and Legal 500 ranked team at a senior level, and work with "Leading Individuals", as named in the Legal 500.
Our Employment team enjoys an excellent reputation in the market and is ranked as a National Leader. We are growing quickly and offer resident employment expertise in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Many of our clients are well known names in the retail, public, and financial services sectors and we provide a full range of employment support, including in defending Employment Tribunal claims.
Your Role
As a key addition to the team, day to day you can expect to be involved with high quality, varied work including:
* Helping employers manage issues in the workplace such as disciplinaries, grievances, restructuring and redundancies
* Leading on Employment Tribunal claims (almost exclusively acting for Respondents)
* Providing employment law support in TUPE matters, corporate deals and outsourcing contracts, contract drafting and client training
* Drafting of contracts of employment, consultancy agreements, staff handbooks, settlement agreements and other employment related documentation
* Collaborating with Partners and working closely with the wider national Employment team
Your Skills & Experience
We are looking for:
* A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered) with 1+ years PQE in a similar legal setting
* Excellent communication skills with the ability and confidence to engage with clients and colleagues at all levels
* Commitment to working in a supportive, team-based environment
* An appetite for business development and maintaining strong client relationships
Your Team
TLT’s highly regarded Employment team is ranked in Chambers UK Guide and Legal 500 2025 and has enjoyed very strong growth in recent years. Our busy team of more than 60 specialists operates as a single national team across the three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have an enviable client base including many listed clients and have a particular focus in the financial services, retail, telecoms, future energy and public sectors. We have a supportive and open culture and supported by our Knowledge Lawyer team are committed to ongoing professional development of both technical and soft skills.
Our services include business reorganisations and redundancies, tactical advice on sensitive/ reputational issues, practical support on business as usual issues such as grievance, boardroom support on reputational or corporate governance issues, employment tribunal representation, internal investigations, advice on employee consultation and engagement, employment law training and specialist expertise on TUPE and outsourcing.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com
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