Employment Lawyer. 6 month assignment. 3++ PQE

Our client, an elite city firm in London, is looking for an Employment Lawyer with at least 3 years' PQE to join them for an assignment of 6 months in duration. The role is to start ASAP and will require 3 days a week in their London office.

The employment team is consistently highly ranked across the legal directories and provides a broad range of employer clients with advice across a full spectrum of contentious, non-contentious, advisory and corporate support matters. Clients range from large multinationals to smaller private and public companies and a notable proportion of their work is cross jurisdictional.

The successful employment lawyer will be given a significant amount of client contact and responsibility whilst working in a collaborative environment. Typically, the successful Employment Associate/Senior Associate can expect to spend 80% of their time on contentious and advisory work and 20% on corporate support matters.

Work could include:

• Senior exits and settlement agreements
• Restrictive covenant breaches, planning team moves
• Grievances and disciplinaries and other contentious advice
• Change projects such as redundancy and TUPE processes
• Drafting contracts, bonus schemes and handbooks
• Gender pay gap reporting, holiday pay and other ad hoc advice
• Tribunal litigation covering unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and discrimination
• High Court Litigation
• Investigations
• TUPE matters
• Employment aspects of corporate deals, investee company executive exits and IPOs

Successful employment lawyers are likely to demonstrate:

• Qualification as a Solicitor (England & Wales qualification is preferable but applications from other commonwealth jurisdictions such as Australia and New Zealand, for example, are welcome)
• Upwards of 3 years' PQE
• Experience in advising on a full range of Employment law matters
• Exposure gained within leading international and city law firms
• The ability to start a new contract immediately or at short notice
• Excellent attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)

This 6 month assignment represents a superb opportunity for the successful employment lawyer to join a market leading, directory ranked, employment team within an elite city firm.

The firm operates a hybrid working arrangement, with individuals generally spending 3 days a week in the London office.

Please apply with your CV to [email protected] in confidence.

Please note that where a level of preferred experience or qualification is indicated, this is a guideline only and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.Jameson Legal acts as an employment business for temporary recruitment and as an employment agency for fixed term contract and permanent recruitment.