Employment Solicitor

In joining this firm as an employment solicitor, you will become part of an established top 100 practice with a strong presence in the London market. On offer is the chance to join a team offering a mixture of contentious and non-contentious matters.

The work undertaken is diverse and includes advising on:

• Breach of restrictive covenants.

• Duty of fidelity and fiduciary duty issues arising on team moves in various industry sectors.

• Advice on TUPE, restructuring, redundancies, discrimination, disciplinaries, dismissals and grievances.

• Corporate support work.

• Advising both employers and employees (mostly senior executives) in relation to unfair and wrongful dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deduction of wages and discrimination claims.

• Minimum of 2 years’ PQE in employment work. Ideally you will have experience of contentious and non-contentious work.

• Willing to get involved in marketing and business development of the department.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Experienced in running own files (you will be responsible for the day to day running of a caseload).

• Salary £67000-75000

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Good work life/balance

• Wide variety of both contentious and non-contentious work from a wide variety of clients. The contentious work is heavily weighted to defendant work.

• Realistic opportunities for progression