Employment Lawyer

THE FIRM

A leading full-service law firm, with a wealth of experience in its areas of specialisation.

THE ROLE

Within the firm's growing, market-leading Employment team team which has an international focus.

As a Senior Associate you will be given a significant amount of client contact and responsibility whilst working in a collaborative environment to provide advice and assistance to high quality clients.

You will typically spend around 80-85% of your time on contentious and advisory work and 15-20% on transactional support.

Typical work includes the following:

Disputes and investigations
* Tribunal litigation (e. unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination).
* High Court litigation (e. team moves and bonus claims).
* Workplace investigations.
* Working with the DR team on other investigations.
* Strike ballots and union activities.

Contentious advice
* Senior exits and settlement agreements.
* Restrictive covenant breaches, planning team moves.
* Other contentious advice (e. grievances, disciplinaries).

Other advisory
* Change projects (e. redundancy and TUPE processes, both UK focussed and international)
* Contracts, bonus schemes and handbooks
* Business immigration
* Other ad hoc advice (e. gender pay gap reporting, holiday pay, furlough)

Training and horizon scanning
Cross-departmental and/or transactional support
* Corporate: deals, investee company executive exits, IPOs.
* Commercial: on outsourcings, GDPR.
* Real estate: TUPE issues.

ABOUT YOU

With an outstanding academic record you will be a qualified Solicitor in a Common Law jurisdiction.

You will be competent in advising on all aspects of Employment law and have experience of working in both an advisory and strategic capacity.
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Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.