Employment Associate/Senior Associate 4+ PQE

Job Description

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors. Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services. As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of. Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2024/25 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for a twelfth consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people. Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers

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. The team operates on a truly national basis, providing our lawyers with the opportunity to work with a variety of colleagues and clients. Acting mainly for employers, our roster of clients includes national and multi-national organisations, and we support them to improve their employment practices and manage workforce issues, as well as defending employment claims and seeking to mitigate risks for clients. We act alongside our complementary multi-disciplinary teams such as information law, commercial and regulatory teams. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has strong recognition in the independent legal directories - Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. In both guides we are consistently ranked in the top tier for our practices across the UK, with multiple individuals recognised as leading lawyers.

The Role

• Manage your own caseload across both contentious and non-contentious work areas
• Work with and support a number of our partner leads and colleagues across all four of our offices
• Provide management and supervisory support to junior colleagues
• Support on training and client relationship management

What we are looking for from you

• A broad range of employment experience, ideally gained across one or more of our key markets above
• Advising on restructures/redundancy processes
• Advising on employee relations issues including settlement negotiations
• 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
• Undertaking transactional due diligence, often as part of a wider corporate or commercial transaction with multidisciplinary teams
• Reviewing/drafting policies
• Delivering training and actively contributing towards business development activities
• Supervision of junior colleagues
• Good client management skills and an interest in business development

Supported to be your best

Hybrid working: We operate a hybrid working model based on the needs of our clients, teams and people. Our core business hours are 9am - 5:15pm Monday to Friday, but we're open to our people working more flexibly around those times. Learning, Development & Progression: We're committed to supporting your professional and personal development needs. Wellbeing: As a [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] employee, you'll have access to a variety of services that support your wellbeing. Benefits: A minimum of 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy up to an additional 5 days), Discretionary bonus scheme, Generous pension scheme, Private medical insurance through Vitality, Biennial private health assessment through Nuffield Health, Life assurance, Access to Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to work scheme. Embracing our differences and valuing inclusion: Our shared aim is that everyone is welcome and can feel comfortable being themselves at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. If you need any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please get in touch with our recruitment team by emailing [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].