Employment Legal Counsel

Taylor Root; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Root is seeking an experienced employment lawyer to join the in-house legal team in London. The role offers exposure to a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including contracts, TUPE, corporate transactions, restructures, disputes and personnel policies.

The successful candidate will have proven employment law experience, strong drafting skills, and excellent communication.

Job description

Leading professional services company seeking an experienced employment lawyer to join their highly skilled in-house legal team in London.

This is a unique opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic team, with an interesting and broad spread of contentious and non-contentious employment work on offer. They are looking for an adept and experienced employment lawyer to provide legal support across the organisations large and varied workforce including contractual agreements, TUPE, corporate transactions, restructures, disputes, grievances, disciplinary matters, internal policies and procedures, compensation and benefits, whistleblowing, DEI initiatives, restrictive covenants and terminations. This would include managing claims internally and in the courts and tribunals. In addition to supporting on these areas, the role will be to proactively identify and manage legal risk and to liaise with senior stakeholders.

You will have proven experience as an employment lawyer in advisory, corporate support and litigation preferably from a top tier law firm and in-house experience is a bonus. Attitude is important in this collaborative team, so the ideal candidate will be versatile, efficient, proactive with strong drafting skills, mature, discreet and an excellent communicator with strong academics and understanding of employment law.

This is an excellent opportunity offering a broad range of work with genuine exposure to all legal areas affecting the business to do with people.

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