Solicitor (Employment) in Leeds

A brilliant opportunity has arisen for a Solicitor to join our Employment team. We are predominantly looking for someone to work from our Leeds office but would also consider applicants from Manchester and Birmingham. The role is fast paced and varied, providing employment and immigration law services to regional, national and international clients. The ideal candidate will have 2 - 5 years post qualifying experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing employment law advisory support to clients in person, by telephone, via Teams and in writing.
• Supporting senior members of the team with their workload.
• Managing a Tribunal caseload and, where appropriate, undertaking full advocacy at hearings, PHRs and CMDs.
• Research, drafting and providing solutions to issues/problems that our clients want our help with.
• Attending meetings and negotiations with clients and third parties.
• Assisting in developing existing and new client business via appropriate channels including active network building and the delivery of training.
• Where appropriate, supervising and delegating work to trainee solicitors, paralegals and legal secretaries as appropriate.
• Keeping up to date with changes and developments in the law by reading journals and law reports.
• Delivering training sessions to clients.

Qualifications

• 2 - 5 years post qualified experience in Employment Law case work.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• The ability to work to challenging timescales and with demanding clients and colleagues.
• Excellent all round communications skills.
• Sound judgement.
• The ability to plan and organise effectively.
• Accuracy and great attention to detail.
• Effective diary/administration management (including time recording).
• Flexibility, with the ability to adapt style and use different approaches.
• Good prioritisation skills and able to work with urgency to move matters forward.
• Ability to work within and as part of multi-discipline teams.
• Good presentation skills.

About us

We are proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we are one of the UK’s Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We are passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We are committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we are always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our offices.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact quoting vacancy reference NTX1170931. If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address. Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.