Senior Associate/Legal Director (Employment Law)
Litigation
Edinburgh or Glasgow
Permanent, Full Time
Summary of Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join our leading employment law team. The employment team, based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has more accredited employment law specialists than any other team in Scotland and are highly ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers.
The team assist clients on a very wide range of employment law issues both contentious and non-contentious. We work with some of the best-known employers across Scotland as well as a significant number of senior executives.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Associate or Legal Director to provide legal advice in connection with all aspects of employment law.
Key Tasks
• Manage your caseload competently, professionally efficiently and cost effectively, with minimum supervision, to achieve client and firm objectives.
• Advise clients on rights and remedies on all employment law issues (contentious and non-contentious).
• Represent clients before employment tribunals.
• Provide practical commercial based advice, often within very tight timescales.
• Maximise business development opportunities from existing and potential clients and support divisional marketing initiatives including participation in client seminars/webinars and using existing contacts to cross-sell.
• Contribute constructively to the success of the Employment Law Team.
Qualifications and Experience
• You will have at least 8 years’ PQE experience of employment law with significant experience of advising large employer clients.
