Employment Associate in London

Location: London

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office.

Firm Description: Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description: The Hogan Lovells employment team has a longstanding reputation as one of the best in the business. It acts for a high quality client base of financials and blue chip corporates, advising them on some of their most challenging employment law issues. The group's work is a mix of litigation, cross border project work, employment advisory and a limited amount of transactional support work.

Recent Representative Experience Includes:

• Advising a global consumer products conglomerate on the potential restructuring at one of the company’s heavily unionised manufacturing sites.
• Acting for a global pharmaceutical business on its defence of proceedings brought to enforce threatened injunctions to enforce post-termination restrictions.
• Advising a global transportation company on proposed EU legislation regarding platform businesses.
• Acting for a global bank in defending multiple claims of race discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and whistleblowing detriment.
• Advising a leading engineering institution in respect of multiple investigations into potential misconduct and wrongdoing at board level.
• Advising Shaftesbury plc on its merger with another listed real estate business.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Technical Ability: Understanding of legal principles of own practice area, along with a working knowledge of other practice areas. Has project management responsibility, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Client Focus: Has good working relationships with clients and a good understanding of the sector and associated risks and opportunities.
• Team Work And Interpersonal Skills: Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise. Has strong relationships and profile amongst senior colleagues.
• Firm Mindedness: Understands the industry and market in which the practice stream and clients operate. Contributes to the management of the group/practice area.

Skills & Experience: We have an opening for a first rate Employment lawyer. Experience should include a mix of contentious, advisory and transactional work, gained within a top tier firm. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will have 3-4 years post qualification experience (or equivalent experience).

In return, Hogan Lovells offers excellent training and development, a superb working environment together with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Agile Working Statement: Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement: It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.