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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Acting as advocate in Employment Tribunal proceedings, including preliminary, full merits and remedy hearings
- Delivering persuasive oral submissions, conducting cross-examinations and managing witnesses
- Drafting high-quality pleadings, skeleton arguments, opinions and case strategies
- Advising employer clients on prospects, risk, and settlement strategy
- Handling complex litigation and instructing counsel where required
- Providing commercially focused employment advice, including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing claims, TUPE and collective redundancies, grievance, disciplinary and appeal processes
- Delivering training sessions and legal updates to clients
- Building trusted relationships with clients, HR teams and internal partners
Requirements
What you’ll need- Qualified solicitor with solid experience in employment law
- Strong Employment Tribunal advocacy experience
- Confident handling your own caseload with minimal supervision
- Excellent drafting, analytical and negotiation skills
- Clear, pragmatic communicator who can translate legal risk into commercial advice
- Background advising employer clients (desirable)
- Experience with complex or high-value litigation (desirable)
- Interest or experience in delivering client training (desirable)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary, annual bonus and comprehensive benefits package
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (with buy/sell options)
- Private medical and dental cover, life assurance, income protection and travel insurance
- Excellent pension scheme
- Hybrid working and genuine work–life balance
- Career progression within a growing, nationally recognised employment practice
- Access to professional development and leadership programmes
- A collaborative, inclusive culture where expertise is valued and individuality respected
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Hard Skills & Tools
employment lawadvocacylitigationdraftinganalytical skillsnegotiation skillscase strategycross-examinationlegal adviceemployment tribunal
Soft Skills
persuasive communicationrelationship buildingpragmatic communicationclient managementtraining deliveryrisk assessmentindependent worktrust buildingproblem solvinganalytical thinking
Certifications
qualified solicitor