Employment Partner

JMC Legal Recruitment; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced Employment Partner to boost their robust team. This role offers significant growth potential, access to state-of-the-art facilities, and a collaborative environment focused on high-caliber employment law cases.

Benefits

Strong salaries

Flexible working

State of the art offices

Growth potential in a developing business

Qualifications

• 8+ years PQE as an Employment Partner.
• Direct experience in claimant and respondent Employment Law.
• Ability to manage team members.

Responsibilities

• Handle contentious and non-contentious Employment matters.
• Manage HR contracts, unfair dismissals, tribunal cases, and whistleblowing matters.
• Support corporate clients with related employment matters.

Skills

Employment Law

Team Management

HR Contracts

Tribunal Cases

Job description

Having formed less than 10 years ago, this firm are considered Manchester's leading legal disrupter. With L500 accolades across many practice areas coupled with recruiting Partners from top 10 International firms, they are now looking to take the next step on their growth journey with the addition of an Employment Partner.

The firm

This firm specialise over a broad array of legal services focussing on big ticket business clients across Corporate Law, Employment Law, Commercial Disputes, Construction and more whilst boasting a strong team who handle HNW / UHNW individuals work spanning Property, Private Client and Family. For lawyers looking to join a fully serviced practice which encourages cross referral work, collaboration and team work, this is an excellent choice.

Despite housing partners who trained and progressed at larger internationals, there is a very open door culture here. The partners are accessible to associates and senior associates providing a rare platform to collaborate with leaders in the field. As a result, routes to progression in the sense of job title and technical ability are far clearer and transparent at this practice in comparison to their international competitors.

There is a significant level of financial investment in the practice from the partnership giving any fee-earner the chance to join a firm who are undoubtably going to grow significantly in the next 5/10 years.

The Role

This firm are looking for a heavy hitting Employment Partner to come in and work alongside their Head of Department.

This department deals with a broad range of Employment matters which include contentious and non-contentious matters. The team are looking for someone to compliment their existing offer and service which covers the following: -

• TUPE
• HR contracts
• Unfair dismissals
• Tribunal cases
• Whistleblowing and related contentious matters
• Pension related employment matters
• Corporate Support

The firm benefits heavily from their reputation in Corporate Law creating a healthy flow of cross referral work.

Requirements

• You will be a Employment Partner 8+ years PQE
• You will have experience working directly in Employment Law, claimant and respondent
• You will have the experience to manage team members

What's on offer

• Strong salaries & flexible working
• State of the art offices based in Manchester City Centre
• The chance to join a growing business who have plans to grow significantly over the next 5/10 years.