Employment Lawyer

Reporting: Reports to the Managing Director

Office Location: Myers & Co, Stoke-on-Trent

Summary: As an employment solicitor you will lead and support the growth and development of the employment offering, as well as being actively involved in marketing the business as a whole. You will run your own caseload. To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, commercially-minded and have good people skills.

Key Qualifications:

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent.
• 7+ years post-qualification experience in employment.

Key activities:

• Caseload: Manage a varied employment caseload, including contentious and non-contentious work.
• Communication: Communicate across the business to develop a cohesive, positive team environment. Requires strong diplomacy skills to build a consensus. Able to articulate issues and make clear recommendations to the Board.
• Marketing: Grow and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.
• Supervision: Use the financial and case management reporting to monitor, manage and predict to make sure the department is fully and adequately resourced to deliver a quality service, identifying where you need more resource, where you can allocate resource differently, and where you can reduce resource if appropriate, and do this in a timely way to make sure our client service is not negatively impacted.
• Technical advice: Develop, maintain and appropriately use your technical expertise and the expertise across your team to help find answers to questions. Assist the corporate team with transactional work.
• Client focus: Develop and foster a client-focussed culture where the client experience is as equally important to the legal expertise.
• Improve: To share knowledge and actively participate in the training and development of your people. Create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity to criticise or ignore. You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement.
• Financial control: Be responsible for formulating the department budget and to monitor work in progress and ensuring credit control procedures are followed. Work with our Finance team to forecast billing and workflow as accurately as possible.

Key capabilities:

• Knowledgeable: Able to run an employment caseload.
• Commercial: Able to build and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.
• Team player: Able to build relationships across the business and across the MAPD Group.
• Organised: Able to organise yourself and the others you are working with and supporting.
• Practical: Able to listen, to manage expectations and deliver results.
• Calm: Calm under pressure – people will come to you with what they consider to be a crisis.
• IT literate: Competent and comfortable with technology e.g. use of case management systems, Outlook, Excel and Word.

What's in it for you:

• Competitive basic salary
• 25 days holiday