Employment Lawyer

Are you looking to advance your legal career whilst enjoying a healthy work/life balance? Do you want to join a firm that is as interested in your career progression as you are? Are you searching for a fulfilling role where what you get out is considered just as important as what you put in? And where the only ceiling is your ambition?

This firm could be the firm for you. With five offices spanning Hertfordshire, Essex and London, a respected regional law firm with origins dating back well over a century. Our vision is to be the go-to private wealth legal practice in our region, through our commitment to excellent client care, integrity, teamwork, innovation, quality and respect.

In order to achieve our vision, we need people who are committed to excellence. We are experts at what we do and we’re looking for people with the ambition, dedication and work ethic required to become leaders in their field. But we also know that our people have a right to expect excellence from us. That’s why we are dedicated to providing our staff with a nurturing environment, a structured career path that offers clear opportunities for progression, and all the support they need to thrive.

The role: We are looking for an experienced Solicitor or CILEX/FILEX with 5+ years post-qualification experience to join our growing Company and Commercial team. You will have strong experience of acting for employers on a wide range of matters and will be required to develop a mixed caseload of transactional, non-contentious and contentious employment work whilst working with colleagues from across our teams and office locations.

Providing strategic and clear advice, you will have exceptional client care skills, helping us to deliver every time against our Service Pledge. You must have strong technical legal knowledge in employment law, delivering profitable work in an effective manner.

You will be a leader with a keen desire to develop and grow the employment law offering of our firm, demonstrating strong business development and marketing skills and a proven track record of developing and growing client relationships. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing comprehensive HR advice and support to employer clients;
• Drafting service agreements, contracts of employment, staff handbooks and relevant policies;
• Working with clients on disciplinary procedures and internal investigations;
• Advising employer clients on employee terminations, redundancies and restructuring, preparing settlement agreements and a good working knowledge of the tax implications;
• Transactional corporate support work;
• Advising on TUPE matters in transactional work and assisting the corporate team in due diligence and related employment work;
• Advising on boardroom disputes;
• Providing client representation in employment tribunal and court in respect of a broad range of claims including (but not limited to) unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and discrimination claims;
• Delivering training, seminars and legal updates, as well as regularly contributing to the firm's social media output as part of a tailored business development plan;

(this list is not exhaustive and is intended to give an indication of the types of responsibilities that you will have in this role).

What we expect from you:

• You’re dedicated to providing excellent client service in line with our Service Pledge.
• You’re somebody who takes pride in their work and of whom we can be proud.
• You’re interested in promoting the firm’s good name both internally and externally.
• You’re a team player who will always go the extra mile.
• You have a positive attitude and always look to lift spirits, not lower them.
• You show good judgement and maturity.
• You’re risk-aware you know what you don’t know.
• You’re a hard worker with a can-do attitude.

What you can expect from us:

• A structured career path that provides all the information you need to develop and progress.
• A supportive and nurturing working environment with monthly one-to-ones, department meetings and a six-monthly appraisal scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Firm-wide and fee-earner bonus schemes.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year, rising by one day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
• Automatic enrolment to our contributory corporate pension scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Automatic enrolment to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps staff members experiencing personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and wellbeing.
• Enrolment to our Healthcare Cash Plan after the probationary period. Cover includes dependant children and may be extended to partners or spouses at the employee's expense.
• Access to Mintago, a comprehensive employee financial wellbeing platform.
• Each office has its own designated Social and Wellbeing champion, who is there to help promote good mental and physical health with a range of initiatives including social walks, book clubs, charitable activities and out-of-hours get-togethers and events.
• Annual staff events including summer and Christmas events, quarterly office lunches and our annual online Staff Quiz!