We are actively seeking a highly skilled and experienced EMEA region Employment Counsel to support our Fortune 500 technology client! This is a fully remote role!
Introduction
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal secondment work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of legal matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.
Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.
We are actively seeking EMEA Employment Counsel attorneys located in the UK with the following qualifications:
* Minimum of 5-7 years PQE (Post-Qualified Experience) in employment law, preferably within a multinational corporation or law firm.
* Qualified to practice as a UK solicitor or equivalent EU/overseas.
* Strong understanding of employment law regulations and practices across multiple EMEA countries.
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
* Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
* Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience with technological capabilities, client support tools, and artificial intelligence in legal practice.
* Familiarity with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements.
Support our multinational corporate client on the following:
* Provide day-to-day legal advice on employment law queries, including but not limited to employment contracts, role changes, terminations, performance management, disciplinary and grievance matters, and regulatory compliance.
* Respond to and support general employment law queries, including information and consultation requirements with employee representatives where applicable.
* Advise on matters involving high legal risk, brand/PR risk, and senior leadership, such as executive terminations or regional implementation of programs and policies.
* Collaborate with external law firms to provide employment law support in up to 7 countries (Denmark, Finland, Israel, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden).
* Professional immersion in diverse corporate culture.
Benefits
* Flexible remote role.
* Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
* Paid holiday, pension and healthcare – we offer highly competitive benefits in the alternative legal services space.
Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.
It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.