Associate – Employment

Overview

In this Employment Associate role, you will support the team across contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including tribunal work, advisory work, and employment provisions in corporate deals. You will help manage a varied caseload, contribute to business development, and support client relationships. The role offers exposure to cross-border matters and large-scale restructuring, with emphasis on practical, commercially focused advice. You’ll work closely with colleagues to deliver client-centred employment solutions and grow the practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage or assist with Employment Tribunal litigation, including drafting pleadings and statements and attending hearings
• Provide commercially focused day-to-day employment law advice on disciplinary, grievance, redundancy, TUPE, and contract queries
• Involves due diligence and drafting employment provisions in share purchase agreements and service agreements during corporate transactions
• Liaise directly with clients with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach
• Draft client-facing correspondence, advice notes, and employment contracts/policies
• Engage in business development, contribute to thought leadership, and help grow the employment practice
• Manage a busy, varied caseload balancing litigation and advisory work
• Collaborate with colleagues across the wider employment and commercial teams
• Develop expertise in sectors like insurance, healthcare, transport, energy, or infrastructure

Key requirements

• Experience managing or assisting with Employment Tribunal litigation
• Ability to provide commercially focused day-to-day employment law advice across a broad range of issues
• Exposure to employment aspects of corporate transactions, including due diligence and drafting provisions in SPA and service agreements
• Confident liaising with clients with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach
• Strong legal drafting skills for client-facing documents and policies
• Understanding of business development and willingness to engage in networking and thought leadership
• Ability to balance litigation and advisory work in a busy environment
• Collaborative mindset to support teams across the firm

• proactive
• solutions-oriented
• client-focused
• Employment Tribunal drafting pleadings and statements
• advisory employment law across disciplinary, grievance, redundancy, TUPE
• due diligence for corporate transactions

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