Employment Law Solicitor

To oversee and advise on all aspects of employment law and employee relations within your designated group sectors; with particular focus on managing all Employment Tribunal activity, as cost-effectively as possible, within the designated sectors.

Client Details

A large commercial business services focused organisation with a large and diverse employee population.

Description

To manage all Employment Tribunal activity within your designated sectors including but not limited to:

• Reviewing claims and assisting with ET3 response drafting
• Devising case management and defence strategy per tribunal claim, including early identification of risk areas or jurisdictional defences
• Advising/influencing stakeholders on the prospects and risks of each claim, the proposed case management and defence strategy, and the value of the claim
• Preparing all documents for hearing including tribunal bundles, witness statements, counter schedules of loss, skeleton arguments and any other documents as required
• Preparing and submitting case management applications in accordance with the case management/defence strategy
• Preparing for and representing the group at all types of hearing including case management preliminary hearings, substantive preliminary hearings, judicial mediation and full merits hearings including remedy if necessary
• Providing feedback to stakeholders at the conclusion of all claims and Tribunal hearings
• Liaising professionally and effectively with key internal stakeholders including line managers of all levels of seniority, witnesses, Employee Relations team, HR team (leadership team and field-based as necessary), payroll and resourcing

Profile

• Expert knowledge of Employment Law

• Min. 3 years' experience of Employment Tribunal case management including advocacy at all/most types of Employment Tribunal hearing (preliminary, case management, full-merits including remedy, judicial mediation)

• Ability to run your own advocacy
• Travel UK wide with at least 2 days in the Birmingham office per week
• Excellent organisational and diary management skills
• Strong oral and written presentation skills, able to communicate and influence at all levels of seniority internally and externally
• Good attention to detail
• Good negotiating skills
• Able to communicate complex advice and concepts in straightforward, non-ambiguous terms
• Able to work on own initiative and manage caseload with minimal supervision
• Able to prioritise workload
• Able to build positive, collaborative working relationships with internal stakeholders
• Strong Commercial Awareness

Job Offer

Excellent an competitive salary plus car and bonus.