Employment Associate

Our client is a leading London firm with an exceptional Tier 2 Employment department. The firm are proud to boast one of the best Employment offerings in the country and are looking to expand by making a mid-level hire (3-7PQE).

The firm are interested in hearing from candidates who currently work at firms who boast a similarly ranked Employment team, whether this be a Magic Circle/US or a Tier 1/2/3 firm for Employment.

The Role:

• You will be acting on behalf of the firms corporate clients. The role will include (but is not limited to):
• Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including retail, health, logistics and insurance work.
• Progress and manage a wide variety of client matters both contentious and non-contentious, and of varying complexity and scale.
• Depending on level; manage own matters, time and relationships with minimum supervision.
• Maintain an awareness of the appropriate limits of own competence/authority.
• Actively identify and exploit business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and own contacts.
• Participate in and initiate marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients.
• This includes presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars, taking part in pitches and contributing positively to business development.
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through leading and attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
• Support the effective running of the team e.g. contributing to team meetings, reviewing reports and documents of more junior fee earners and providing guidance and feedback, assisting with the allocation of work.
• Provide support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in colleagues’ absence, supporting CRM activities.
• Continually monitoring and taking responsibility for own financial performance and demonstrating proactive financial management; attention to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection, accounting procedures and client service level agreements.
• Handle confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols.
• We would expect the post holder to be a solicitor from an established respondent focused practice.

Requirements

• As a guide, this role would suit a Corporate Lawyer between 3 - 5 years PQE
• Comfortable with client contact and building relationships
• Have a good academic track record

Get in Touch

If you're interested in this position, and you meet the requirements of the role, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Cameron Milton for a confidential discussion.

Our advertisements use salary and experience as a guide only. Interlink Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.

*Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful.