Associate - Employment

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom DAC Beachcroft Full time £40,000 - £80,000 per year

Department:
Employment, Pensions and Immigration - North

Location:
Newcastle

Description
The Newcastle Employment team acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong and growing reputation in and is recognised as Band/Tier 1 in both the latest Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK rankings.

The team has a strong reputation in the Newcastle market, acting for a stable of significant financial services clients and household name corporates as well as being a market leader in the public and independent health sectors.

For more information on our Employment and Pensions expertise please go to

Key Responsibilities

  • Undertake a busy and varied workload of employment matters advising all types of employers, with an emphasis on our financial services sector clients
  • Work on complex discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract litigation (Employment Tribunal and High Court) under appropriate supervision
  • Assist on non-contentious projects including restructures (redundancy and TUPE) in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions
  • General employment advisory work by telephone and email
  • Take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and paralegals
  • Take part in and initiate marketing, networking and other business development activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients. This includes assisting with client seminars and delivering training
  • Contribute to non fee-earning activity as appropriate e.g. knowledge sharing, internal training

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • We would expect the post holder to be 3+ PQE.
  • Ideally experience of advising multi-national commercial clients.
  • Must have experience of working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters.
  • Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients.
  • Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships with clients and influence at all levels.
  • Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: or

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