The Department

MDR ONE provides centralised global employment law support and data-led insights to multinational companies, putting in-house counsel in control of their global legal operations. It was developed to give business leaders control as they deliver employment law support back to the business and addresses the traditional challenges associated with delivering legal services across multiple jurisdictions: the issues of inconsistent advice and approach, lack of retaining corporate knowledge, cost control and the complexity of managing a global network of law firms.

At MDR ONE, we believe in the value of partnership, consistency, and using cutting-edge technology to deliver access to high quality, practical employment law support. Our clients benefit from business-focussed legal advice across multiple jurisdictions via one relationship and one point of engagement - together with optional technology platforms and data-led account management that helps them build internal efficiencies and unlock valuable insights.

We are not a legal network and our ONE model doesn't tie us to specific local counsel or pre-defined processes and systems. Instead, we offer a fully flexible solution to align with our clients' global employment law needs, as and when they arise.

The Role

We are looking for an international employment lawyer (1 - 3 PQE) to join our growing business.

If you are an international employment specialist who thinks and works differently to traditional employment lawyers and would like to find a home with like-minded, highly skilled people, then we would love to hear from you.

You'll be working with clients and local counsel daily on varied work from across the globe.

You'll help clients shape solutions to tricky people issues. You'll analyse local counsel input and deliver pragmatic, and solutions-focussed advice to our clients. You'll help to guide (employment) M&A matters to a smooth conclusion.

You'll manage a varied workload including, terminations, investigations, works council issues, M&A/TUPE deals, litigation, projects, contracts, handbooks, privacy issues, cross border projects and much more.

We welcome and encourage creativity and ideas, so this is an ideal route for demonstrating your initiative and getting noticed for it.

Skills/Experience

• Qualified lawyer in the UK or another major jurisdiction.
• 1 - 3 years PQE (although this is just a guide).
• In-house experience would be great, as would experience within an international employment team in private practice.
• Ideally you will have some experience working on international employment law matters.
• Experience working as part of, or closely with in house employment teams would be helpful, but isn't essential.
• We work in English, but if you have additional language skills, that's a bonus.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Who we work with

We work with large multi-national organisations from across the world, across all sectors and industries. Many of those are headquartered in the US. Some of our clients are established global players and others are looking to expand their footprint. The common thread between them is a desire to solve their people problems in new, innovative ways that contrast with the traditional large international firm models.

Our way of working

We have a hybrid office/remote working model. We have a great office just outside the Holborn tube station that we ask you to come into twice per week, or more if you want to.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy, our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business, also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose, a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management, MDR Cyber, MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair(in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx. Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

No agencies, please.