Employment Senior Associate / Partner

Employment Senior Associate / Partner | Boutique L500 firm | Big ticket / complex work

The Firm

This commercial boutique practice may be small size but are powerful in impact with heavy hitting Lawyers personally mentioned in the Legal 500 for their work.

The firm have an exciting client base, advising major household names and thus giving them a high-profile status while maintaining their identity as an approachable, sociable, yet professional firm. They have built a solid reputation, focusing their energy on getting results, that is tailored and solution-orientated when providing advice to their established corporate clients.

The firm has grown substantially due to its dynamic team and strategic heavyweight hires. Despite their continuous expansion and continued organic growth plans, they have committed to preserving a real family feel throughout their offices, they have a great social element, and there are sporting and regular events that all staff like to get involved in.

This firm has a forward-thinking approach when it comes to their staff. They measure the inputs not the outputs, offering a competitive flexible working scheme whereby you choose how to manage your time outside the core hours. By putting their staff at the heart of their business, it's what stands them apart from the standard 9-5 approach.

By having a culture that challenges the conventional law firm approach, the firm is dedicated to investing heavily in its infrastructure. This gives staff the autonomy to have the seamless option to choose between working in the office one day or setting up at home the next.

The Role

The firm is looking for a Employment Senior Associate / Partner to join their reputable department based in Manchester.

In this role you will be working directly alongside another partner by inheriting a caseload alongside being tasked with driving further growth of the team. As a result of the firms strong reputation in Corporate & Commercial the Employment team predominately deals with corporate clients whilst occasionally handling individual matters. They work across a variety of sectors including retail, leisure, industrial, pharmaceuticals and more.

You will be expected to deal with both contentious and non-contentious matters and the department deals with a broad range of employment matters which traditionally include; TUPE, tribunals, contentious dismissals, employment contracts, HR and more.

There is no requirement to bring a following but you must have a passion to take the bull by the horns and be a tenacious and entrepreneurial individual who can contribute to the overall growth and success of the department.

Requirements

• You must be a Employment Solicitor 5+ years PQE
• You will be comfortable over contentious and non-contentious matters
• You will want to join a ambitious team with growth plans across the north west

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