Senior Employment Solicitor – Hybrid, Complex Matters

QED Legal Recruitment Limited; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Excellent progression

Legal 500 Tier 2 Employment team

Job summary

QED Legal Recruitment Limited is seeking an experienced Employment Senior Associate to join a major regional law firm's Grimsby office on a hybrid basis. You will handle a broad caseload across advisory and contentious matters, supporting a Legal 500 ranked team and contributing to business development.

This role offers excellent progression, exposure to high-value matters, and the opportunity to mentor junior lawyers in a supportive regional culture.

Qualifications

• An experienced Employment Solicitor ready to operate at Senior Associate level.
• Strong experience across employment advisory and contentious matters.
• Comfortable managing your own caseload with a high degree of autonomy.
• Able to build strong and commercially focused relationships with employer clients.
• An interest in business development and growing client relationships.
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior colleagues would be advantageous.
• Commercial, personable and comfortable working collaboratively within a wider team.

Responsibilities

• Manage a broad and technically varied caseload across contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
• Advise a diverse employer client base including SMEs, major corporates, PLCs and public sector organisations.
• Handle complex Employment Tribunal litigation alongside strategic advisory matters.
• Develop strong relationships with existing clients while building your own profile and network.
• Play an active role in business development, pitches and wider marketing initiatives.
• Support and mentor junior lawyers within the team.
• Work collaboratively with Employment colleagues across the wider firm.

Job description

QED Legal Recruitment Limited is seeking an experienced Employment Senior Associate to join a major regional law firm's Grimsby office on a hybrid basis. You will handle a broad caseload across advisory and contentious matters, supporting a Legal 500 ranked team and contributing to business development.

This role offers excellent progression, exposure to high-value matters, and the opportunity to mentor junior lawyers in a supportive regional culture.