Employment Lawyer – 6 month assignment.
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.