Senior Employment Solicitor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Manage complex contentious employment matters

• Provide guidance to businesses of various sizes across multiple sectors

• Offer daily employment law assistance to SMEs and larger organizations

• Advise on organizational restructures and redundancies, including collective redundancies

• Supervise discrimination and whistle-blowing cases

• Counsel on TUPE transfers, including corporate support

• Draft consultancy agreements and provide advice on employment status, including IR35

• Create and advise on director service agreements and employment contracts

• Oversee disciplinary and grievance processes

• Manage senior executive severances

• Foster strong client relationships and deliver practical, commercially-oriented advice

• Collaborate with senior attorneys to ensure exceptional client service

• Utilize technology and AI tools to enhance efficiency and productivity

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of PQE as an employment lawyer

• Strong interest and experience in contentious employment matters

• General employment law experience supporting both SMEs and larger organizations

• Familiarity with business restructures and redundancies, including collective redundancies

• Experience overseeing discrimination and whistle-blowing cases

• Expertise in advising on TUPE transfers, including corporate support

• Knowledge of IR35 and experience with drafting consultancy agreements and advising on employment status

• Proficiency in drafting and advising on director service agreements and employment contracts

• Experience managing disciplinary and grievance processes

• Background in handling senior executive severances

• Commercially savvy with the ability to cultivate strong relationships and provide practical advice

• Tech-friendly and self-motivated

• Ability to adapt to new systems and technologies

• Interest in leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and productivity

• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Proficient in navigating SharePoint for managing and collaborating on work

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, modern, and technology-driven environment

• Strong attention to detail when drafting documents

• No agencies

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary

• 33 days of holiday, including public holidays

• Option to purchase up to 5 additional holiday days each year

• Private healthcare

• Death in service benefit

• Access to our electric car scheme

• Flexible working arrangements as part of a fully remote yet collaborative team