Associate in London

Kennedys is seeking an Associate (2+ years' PQE) to join our Employment team. The successful candidate will work on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters for UK and international clients. This role offers exposure to high-quality work, direct client contact, and the opportunity to develop within a market-leading practice. This position is available in our London, Manchester and Birmingham Offices.

Clients: Large to medium size employers in: Transport, Insurance, Government, Public authority, Professional Services, Healthcare, Sports and media.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advising employer clients on a wide variety of employment law issues.
• Managing Employment Tribunal litigation, including drafting pleadings, handling case management, and preparing matters for hearing.
• Assisting senior lawyers with complex advisory work, including discrimination, TUPE, reorganisations, and employee relations.
• Drafting contracts, settlement agreements, policies and other employment documentation.
• Providing clear, practical and commercially focused advice to clients.
• Supporting business development initiatives within the Employment team.

Required experience:

• Qualified solicitor with a minimum of 2 years' post-qualification experience in employment law.
• Strong experience in contentious matters; advocacy experience is desirable but not essential.
• Excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to manage a varied workload and meet deadlines.
• Strong client-handling skills and a proactive, team-focused approach.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys:

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field. Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our culture is at the core of who we are and what makes us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate and empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.