Simmons & Simmons

Attorney

• Support Simmons Adaptive clients with a broad range of employment law work
• Advise on HR matters and day-to-day employment law queries
• Draft and review contracts, policies, and handbooks
• Manage disciplinary, grievance, and performance issues
• Advise on redundancies, restructures, and TUPE
• Handle discrimination, equality, and diversity matters
• Work on employment tribunal claims
• Draft and negotiate settlement agreements
• Train clients on employment law and best practice
• Engage regularly with a sponsoring Partner and client team during assignments

Interim Employment Lawyer

Account Manager

• Strategic hiring advisory: Partner with senior stakeholders to understand growth priorities, identify hiring opportunities and develop recruitment strategies that align with the firm's global and regional objectives.
• Market intelligence: Build and maintain knowledge of legal markets, competitor activity, talent trends and practice-specific developments to inform hiring decisions and support business planning.
• Talent identification and engagement: Develop approaches to identify and attract high-calibre lateral partner candidates across multiple jurisdictions, sectors and practice areas.
• Stakeholder management: Act as a trusted adviser to practice group leaders, regional leaders and hiring partners throughout the recruitment process, ensuring alignment and effective decision-making.
• Assessment and due diligence: Support the evaluation of candidates by reviewing business plans, analysing strategic fit and advising stakeholders on areas for investigation, challenge and testing throughout the assessment process.
• Commercial negotiations: Manage relationships with external search firms, negotiate agency terms and fees, and ensure value for money and a consistent approach across the firm's recruitment activities.
• Recruitment process management: Lead and coordinate recruitment processes from initial engagement through to offer stage, ensuring an efficient, professional and candidate-focused experience.
• Risk and practical advisory: Advise stakeholders on practical recruitment considerations including restrictive covenants, notice periods, team moves, portability of work and other market-specific risks associated with lateral hiring.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with HR, Finance, Risk, Conflicts, Legal and Marketing & Business Development teams to ensure a seamless and coordinated approach to partner hiring.
• Offer management: Support the preparation and negotiation of offers, ensuring commercial alignment and a positive candidate experience.
• Onboarding and integration: Lead the onboarding and integration of new partners, working with key stakeholders to support successful transition, early engagement and long-term success within the firm.
• Continuous improvement: Contribute to the development of recruitment processes, market insights, reporting and best practice frameworks that enhance the effectiveness of the Partner Recruitment function globally.

Partner Recruitment Manager

• Advising on brand clearance and protection strategies.
• Trade mark prosecution and portfolio management.
• Handling contentious matters including opposition, invalidity and revocation proceedings, enforcement actions and online brand protection programmes.
• Working closely with partners and colleagues across the wider IP practice.
• Supporting clients across a diverse range of industries while delivering commercially focused, pragmatic advice.
• Significant client exposure, responsibility and the opportunity to develop within a collaborative and growing international team.

Interim Employment Lawyer

Partner Recruitment Manager

Trade Mark Attorney – IP