Department: Employment & Pensions

Location: London

Role: Associate/ Senior Associate

The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy and successful Employment team. We are friendly and approachable and we provide a supportive environment to ensure that every team member achieves their full potential. The firm offers many opportunities for our people to develop their careers globally. This includes the opportunity to apply for our Global Associate Programme under which Associates can spend time working at another of our many offices around the world.

We provide market-leading support to a wide variety of clients including employers in the public sector, education, transport, construction, manufacturing, food and drink, aviation, and the arts as well as senior executives. We advise on all aspects of employment law including: discrimination, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, redundancy, disciplinary and grievance issues, large scale restructuring projects and TUPE. We have a stellar reputation for providing commercial, pragmatic and accessible advice. Our team are instructed in litigation in the Employment Tribunal and the civil courts and have represented clients in some of the highest profile and high value litigations across the UK in recent years.

The Role

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic Associates, to join our Glasgow, Manchester and London offices. We currently operate a hybrid model policy with a minimum requirement of two days in the office.

The successful candidates will manage a caseload of both contentious and non-contentious matters, including Tribunal appearance work, and will support business development activities.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong technical abilities.
• Ability to work autonomously with support from wider team when needed.
• Ability to build strong client relationships and carry out business development activities.
• Ability to lead more junior team members on projects.
• Ability to mentor and support other team members.

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Benefits

We have a number of additional benefits which our employees are eligible for, including but not limited to, private healthcare and dental care. For more information regarding the additional benefits and total compensation, please don't hesitate to reach out to Danielle Darke danielle.darke@clydeco.com

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