Professional Support Lawyer - Employment

Role Description

Our Employment Team is recognised for its practical, commercially-focused support for clients across a range of sectors. We are looking for a talented individual to join our team in a dual Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) and Training role.

This is an excellent opportunity to blend technical legal expertise with business development and client engagement. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and advancing our team’s knowledge base, ensuring our clients and colleagues benefit from cutting-edge advice and training in employment law.

If you have a passion for delivering high-quality legal services, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

Work type:

Professional Support Lawyer:

• Manage and maintain the Employment Team Knowledge Library and Precedents
• Stay up to date with legal developments and best practices, ensuring the team’s knowledge library and documents are current and comprehensive
• Regularly review the need for new or updated documents
• Identify gaps in the team’s precedents, propose new ones as needed, and take the lead in creating them
• Monitor legal developments in employment law and update and train the team regularly
• Co-ordinate internal team training and organise training sessions with external providers
• Conduct legal research as required

Training:

• Co-ordinate client training, devise training courses and produce training materials for bespoke client training including notes for presenters on employment law matters
• Present training for clients and targets and devise and conduct public training courses as required
• In conjunction with the Partners, develop sales strategy for training products for the Employment Team
• Actively identify opportunities to sell training products and proactively anticipate and devise appropriate new training courses based on new legislation/ opportunities
• In conjunction with the Partners, co-ordinate the webinar program and prepare and host webinars/ podcasts and materials, including presenting webinars on employment law issues
• Prepare and co-ordinate online newsletters for the Employment Team
• Prepare quarterly update as required for clients and prospects on employment law
• Horizon scan and update team on matters relevant to sectors in which clients operate

Experience/ Attributes required:

• Ability to work unsupervised
• Supports strategic direction of the firm
• Excellent business development and marketing skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Confident and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to explain complex matters clearly and credibly to external stakeholders
• Be able to research and apply knowledge to work in progress
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities & tasks:

• To maintain and develop business relationships with clients
• To promote the team’s services and identify opportunities to sell these and training products
• To keep up to date with current literature, publications and circulars and bring to the attention of other members of your team relevant news and developments
• Ensure file management, and administration are kept up to date
• To work effectively on your own and in a team
• To work in excess of normal working hours where it proves necessary, in the interests of the Firm or those of our clients
• Liaise with and develop relationships with external consultants and professional experts in accordance with the team’s requirements
• Meet with and train clients including leadership teams, HR, manager, in house legal teams and client staff – at the firm’s offices or their offices and/or remotely
• Craft training materials and PSL documents for the Employment Team
• Keep up to date with your own team’s and the firm’s developments and advise clients/contacts accordingly wherever appropriate to promote other practice teams in the firm
• Wherever possible assist with practice development events organised by the team and the firm

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance 5 x final salary
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible Hybrid working
• An additional days holiday for your birthday
• A weekly wellbeing hour
• 8 hour per annum charity work
• Cycle to work scheme
• Bring your dog to work
• Social committee events
• Season ticket travel loan
• Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday

Team structure:

• 3 x Partners
• 1 x Head of Immigration
• 2 x Senior Associate Solicitors
• 1 x Associate Solicitor
• 3 x Solicitor
• 1 x Chartered legal executive
• 2 x Paralegals
• 4 x Secretaries