Employment Associate/Senior Associate

The practice

The team provides a full service to clients in the UK and internationally across advisory, employment litigation and corporate transaction services. The team also works closely with our Incentives, Business Immigration, Pensions and Health & Safety practices.

Exceptional Technological Support

The team works closely with our dedicated and industry recognised [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Solutions team to be at the cutting edge of harnessing legal tech and AI.

International

We have extensive experience in international employment law matters (being able to call on employment lawyers in 26 international locations), allowing us to represent truly international clients. Our team also has experience of managing cross-border employment projects and our lawyers have the opportunity to take part in our international secondment programme..

Complex Work

The team is also well known for their work on complex issues such as restructuring, restrictive covenant work, reputational risk management and data privacy. We operate across a variety of sectors and are regarded as one of the 'go-to' firms across the financial services, telecoms, technology, recruitment, retail and media & advertising sectors.

We work for a fantastic range of leading clients such as Vodafone, Diageo Ralph Lauren, Hargreaves Lansdowne,  PwC, Deckers, Motorola, Mamas & Papas and Air Canada..

The team is truly "full service" and has strength and depth in many areas including: Employment Tribunals (one of the team is an Employment Judge); TUPE (we represent one of the World's largest professional service firms on TUPE matters); industrial relations (our team has recently been involved with the Central Arbitration Committee and regularly advises on trade union and industrial action issues).

Find more about our Employment practice using this link:https://www.osborneclarke.com/services/employment-and-pensions/

The team

The Bristol team is made up of 4 Partners, 2 Legal Directors, 2 Associate Directors, 2 Senior Associates, 5 Associates, 1 Trainee Solicitor and 1 Solicitor Apprentice. We also have two dedicated and senior knowledge lawyers who support the team.

Technical skills and experience

Due to the technical nature of the practice, we are looking for evidence of experience of working on a range of Employment matters. As a guide, due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking to appoint an Associate or Senior Associate in this area, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress; • high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure; • thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues; • robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and • reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

At [Employer hidden] we are happy to consider requests to work flexibly.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on [contact hidden]

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At [Employer hidden] we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.