Employment Law Solicitor
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Legal
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- car and bonus
- Posted
- 31 May 2018
- Closes
- 28 Jun 2018
- Ref
- 13925508/001
- Contact
- Conor Farrell
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Employment
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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.