Qualified Lawyer
London
Legal
Employment Associate (NQ-1)
Full Time
The team
Led by Partner Patrick Brodie, our Employment, Engagement & Equality team comprises a core group of London and Hong Kong based Partners, with Senior Associates/Associates/Trainees based in London, Bristol, Hong Kong and Singapore. The team regularly works with colleagues across our Corporate and Commercial teams, Commercial Disputes, Data Protection, Financial Services, Insurance and Tax, to deliver specialist advice.
Ranked in the legal guides and award winning, we are recognised for our work across a range of high value and high stakes employment litigation, corporate governance, and advisory matters. We are experts on whistleblowing, restrictive covenants, and bonus disputes. We have acted on groundbreaking cases that have clarified both domestic and international law, including in the Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
We are immersed in the ethos and principles of DEIB, focusing on supporting and advising our clients, industry bodies, and leadership teams in the evolution of behaviours, attitudes, and culture that advance their vision of a more equitable workplace.
The role
As the team enters an exciting phase of sustained growth, we are looking for an employment associate with NQ-1 years of PQE to be based out of our London office.
You will be a lawyer looking to further develop expertise in a breadth of employment work. To date, you will have gained contentious and non-contentious employment experience at a top-quality commercial practice or equivalent. We say equivalent because we never know where we might find brilliant people.
You will be a self-starter and be able to be increasingly responsible for smaller matters, with appropriate supervision, and to provide excellent support to the team on more significant projects.
We emphasise collegiality; but we want our lawyers to be themselves. We seek out brilliance; but do not have a fixed view on how that might be expressed. We want our lawyers to grow, achieving their ambitions; but not at their own cost or the cost of those they work with. You will be challenged. You will be working alongside colleagues based out of both the Bristol and London offices, supporting our many and varied clients. On occasion, you may work with our teams in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The sectors we are closest to are retail and consumer, technology and media, and insurance. Your work, though predominantly UK domestic will, also, be international.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to be a part of the sustained development and overall growth of the team.
Knowledge, skills and experience