Employment Solicitor

Employment Senior Practice Development Lawyer (PDL) – 8+ years PQE
We are excited to share a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Practice Development Lawyer to join our Employment team. You’ll work closely with our lawyers and directly with clients to deliver cutting-edge knowhow, training, and legal products.
You’ll help shape and deliver strategic knowledge initiatives that make a real difference to our clients and our practice.
You’ll be part of a close-knit, collaborative PDL community across the firm.
We have an enthusiastic and experienced Employment PDL team and are looking to add to our team to prepare for the significant amount of legal change coming our way in future years.
The firmwide PDL team is a close community across all practice areas and locations, ensuring that knowledge and best practice is shared across the firm’s international network.
We have one of the best resourced teams of employment specialists of any law firm in the country, offering both national coverage from our UK offices and an international offering through our employment specialists in Europe, the Gulf, Asia Pacific and Australia.
Our clients rely upon us to help them not only with technical legal issues but also to act as true business partners, understanding the challenges and opportunities within their respective sectors and businesses.
We provide our clients with innovative commercial solutions, not merely details of the legal issues. We help our clients navigate their daily challenges and deliver their strategic objectives. We do not let employment law get in the way of our client's workforce management. Our approach has resulted in us developing long term relationships and partnerships with clients, many of whom are household names.
We invest in our team and have a fantastic training and career development programme, regular 121s, career discussions and appraisals.
To work as an integral member of the Employment PDL team, leading on delivery of high-quality knowhow, guidance, and training for Pinsent Masons lawyers and for clients.
To continue to build on the PDL team’s expertise and reputation, enabling our lawyers and clients, developing our practice, and building client relationships through:-
~ leading the tracking, creation and dissemination of technical and commercial intelligence to clients and lawyers, ensuring insights are timely, relevant and aligned with client priorities and sector developments.

identifying and shaping innovative practices, products and resources, proactively spotting opportunities to enhance client service and internal efficiency, and driving their development and implementation across the team.
collaborating with Advanced Delivery teams to enhance legal service delivery through innovative use of people, processes and technology, contributing to the design and rollout of scalable solutions.
championing innovation in legal practice, leading the development and implementation of new products, resources and service models that respond to evolving client needs and market dynamics.
designing and delivering high-value training programmes for both internal lawyers and external clients, ensuring content is commercially relevant and technically robust.
building and deepening client relationships through strategic engagement, including collaboration on client policies and precedents, horizon scanning, training, briefings, working with our international lawyer teams and thought leadership activities.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, technically able, commercially astute, well organised, and self-motivated Practice Development Lawyer. Candidates should have comprehensive knowledge of UK employment law and should have strong client-facing experience across a range of employment law matters.
leading collaboration closely with partners, legal directors, and senior stakeholders across the employment practice on strategic developments;
overseeing horizon scanning and providing strategic insight into key legal and market developments, ensuring timely dissemination to clients and internal teams;
assessing and advising on the implications of legal and regulatory changes, including their impact on transactions, disputes, and client risk profiles;
managing the development and quality assurance of technical and commercial resources, including precedents, guidance notes and toolkits with a focus on ensuring clarity, consistency, and visual effectiveness;
working with the firm’s BD and PR teams to contribute regularly to external media and Pinsent Masons’ Out-Law website;
curating and delivering a robust current awareness programme, including newsletters, alerts and thought leadership content, tailored to client and sector needs;
strategically overseeing the production and maintenance of precedents, standard forms, practice notes and knowledge materials, including digital and intranet content;
leading/ preparing responses to public consultations on legal and policy developments;
providing expert analysis on legal and policy developments to global colleagues and clients, ensuring commercial relevance and clarity;
managing maintenance of the Team's knowledge databases, ensuring accessibility, accuracy and strategic alignment;
initiating and leading strategic knowledge projects, including scoping, prioritisation, and implementation - in collaboration with partner and lawyer teams;
organisation of all training programmes for the group; identifying and sourcing appropriate external training for lawyers
design and delivery of training to key clients, including proactively identifying relevant topics aligned with client needs and market trends;
Previous experience working as an employment lawyer in a UK law firm, ideally for at least eight years.
Client facing experience in a range of employment law areas.
Practical and flexible approach, with an ability to think and act strategically
An interest in the future of legal services and innovative service delivery
Experience of and a passion for, training delivery
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 26 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where and how they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. The firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.
Pinsent Masons won the ‘Europe’s Most Innovative Law Firm’ at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards Europe 2023 and the ‘Best Talent and Inclusion’ award at The Lawyer Awards 2022. The firm is also named Diversity & Inclusion Firm of the Year 2023 by the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards. At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
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