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Job Title
Associate - MDR One 1-3 PQE (no agencies)
Location
London
Description
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.