Employment Lawyer
2 months ago
Employment
Silver Circle Firm
Solicitor 3-6PQE
London
This leading Silver Circle law firm has a wealth of experience in several practice areas, and has built lasting relationships with clients across several sectors, with a particular focus on asset management, financial services, technology and energy & infrastructure. Their clients include publicly listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity firms, and other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes.
The firm’s Employment team is a growing, market-leading team with an international focus. The team of over 25 lawyers with a broad range of employer clients. The team are recognised for their investigations and senior staff exits work, often dealing with matters involving sensitive allegations. The firm also assists its extensive client list with major restructuring and redundancy programmes, as well as providing representation in litigation before the employment tribunal, EAT and High Court. The team also works closely with the firm’s immigration group for support on recruitment issues.
As an Associate / Senior Associate within the team, whilst workloads will vary, you will typically spend around 80-85% of their time on contentious and advisory work and 15-20% of their time on transactional support. Typical work includes the following:
Disputes and investigations
- Tribunal litigation (e.g. unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination).
- High Court litigation (e.g. team moves and bonus claims).
- Workplace investigations.
- Working with our dispute resolution team on other investigations.
- Strike ballots and union activities.
Contentious advice
- Senior exits and settlement agreements.
- Restrictive covenant breaches, planning team moves.
- Other contentious advice (e.g. grievances, disciplinaries).
Other advisory
- Change projects (e.g. redundancy and TUPE processes, both UK focussed and international)
- Contracts, bonus schemes and handbooks
- Business immigration
- Other ad hoc advice (e.g. gender pay gap reporting, holiday pay, furlough)
Training and horizon scanning
Cross-departmental and/or transactional support
- Corporate: deals, investee company executive exits, IPOs.
- Commercial: on outsourcings, GDPR.
- Real estate: TUPE issues.
To be successful in your application, you will:
- An outstanding academic record.
- Qualified England & Wales Solicitor
- Competent in advising on all aspects of Employment law.
- 3-6 years’ PQE of working in both an advisory and strategic capacity.
- Evidence of strong verbal and written communication skills.
- An ability to demonstrate proactivity in a proficient manner.
- A team player who thrives working within a collegiate environment; and
- A willingness to show commitment and engagement to the firm's culture.
Please apply as directed or confidentially contact Joseph Hughes at Henderson Scott for more information. Alternatively, if this role is not for you, I am working a variety of other Employment Law opportunities with ranked teams in the City London so would be interested to talk to any Employment lawyer.
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