Legal Counsel - Platform Liability
Spotify
Employment Solicitor
Harper James
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provide employment law advice to clients on contentious and non-contentious matters
- Draft contracts of employment, policies, procedures and Consultancy Agreements
- Advise on employment status distinctions and IR35
- Manage disciplinary and grievance processes
- Advise on discrimination, whistle-blowing, TUPE transfers, restructures and redundancies
- Negotiate during ACAS Early Conciliation and defend Employment Tribunal claims
- Enforce/defend restrictive covenants and handle senior executive severances
- Collaborate with team members and participate in client and internal projects
- Use technology and AI tools to streamline legal processes and document management
Requirements
- 4+ years PQE in employment law
- Experience advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters
- Experience drafting contracts of employment, policies and procedure
- Knowledge of employment status: employed, worker and self-employed
- Experience drafting Consultancy Agreements
- Some knowledge of IR35
- Experience managing disciplinary and grievance processes
- Experience advising on discrimination and whistle-blowing cases
- Experience assisting with TUPE transfers and other corporate transactions
- Experience with business restructures & redundancies
- Ability to advise upon and negotiate during the ACAS Early Conciliation process
- Experience defending Employment Tribunal claims
- Experience in enforcement/defence of restrictive covenant claims
- Experience handling senior exec severances
- Friendly, positive and can-do attitude
- Collaborative team-worker
- Proactive good communicator
- Commercial, practical and pragmatic
- Tech-savvy self-starter
- Excited about adopting and using AI tools to boost efficiency
- Solid working knowledge of Microsoft 365 products (eg. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Can confidently navigate SharePoint to manage and collaborate on projects
- Keen eye for detail when formatting and editing documents, ensuring consistency and professionalism
