Job Description
Role Description
Our Employment Team is recognised for its practical, commercially-focused support for clients across a range of sectors. We are looking for a talented individual to join our team in a dual Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) and Training role.
This is an excellent opportunity to blend technical legal expertise with business development and client engagement. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and advancing our team’s knowledge base, ensuring our clients and colleagues benefit from cutting-edge advice and training in employment law.
If you have a passion for delivering high-quality legal services, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.
Work type:
Professional Support Lawyer:
* Manage and maintain the Employment Team Knowledge Library and Precedents
* Stay up to date with legal developments and best practices, ensuring the team’s knowledge library and documents are current and comprehensive
* Regularly review the need for new or updated documents
* Identify gaps in the team’s precedents, propose new ones as needed, and take the lead in creating them
* Monitor legal developments in employment law and update and train the team regularly
* Co-ordinate internal team training and organise training sessions with external providers
* Conduct legal research as required
Training:
* Co-ordinate client training, devise training courses and produce training materials for bespoke client training including notes for presenters on employment law matters
* Present training for clients and targets and devise and conduct public training courses as required
* In conjunction with the Partners, develop sales strategy for training products for the Employment Team
* Actively identify opportunities to sell training products and proactively anticipate and devise appropriate new training courses based on new legislation/ opportunities
* In conjunction with the Partners, co-ordinate the webinar program and prepare and host webinars/ podcasts and materials, including presenting webinars on employment law issues
* Prepare and co-ordinate online newsletters for the Employment Team
* Prepare quarterly update as required for clients and prospects on employment law
* Horizon scan and update team on matters relevant to sectors in which clients operate
Experience/ Attributes required:
* Ability to work unsupervised
* Supports strategic direction of the firm
* Excellent business development and marketing skills
* Excellent attention to detail
* Confident and excellent presentation skills
* Ability to explain complex matters clearly and credibly to external stakeholders
* Be able to research and apply knowledge to work in progress
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities & tasks:
* To maintain and develop business relationships with clients
* To promote the team’s services and identify opportunities to sell these and training products
* To keep up to date with current literature, publications and circulars and bring to the attention of other members of your team relevant news and developments
* Ensure file management, and administration are kept up to date
* To work effectively on your own and in a team
* To work in excess of normal working hours where it proves necessary, in the interests of the Firm or those of our clients
* Liaise with and develop relationships with external consultants and professional experts in accordance with the team’s requirements
* Meet with and train clients including leadership teams, HR, manager, in house legal teams and client staff – at the firm’s offices or their offices and/or remotely
* Craft training materials and PSL documents for the Employment Team
* Keep up to date with your own team’s and the firm’s developments and advise clients/contacts accordingly wherever appropriate to promote other practice teams in the firm
* Wherever possible assist with practice development events organised by the team and the firm
Benefits:
* 25 days holiday
* Pension scheme
* Life Assurance 5 x final salary
* Private medical insurance
* Flexible Hybrid working
* An additional days holiday for your birthday
* A weekly wellbeing hour
* 8 hour per annum charity work
* Cycle to work scheme
* Bring your dog to work
* Social committee events
* Season ticket travel loan
* Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday
Team structure:
* 3 x Partners
* 1 x Head of Immigration
* 2 x Senior Associate Solicitors
* 1 x Associate Solicitor
* 3 x Solicitor
* 1 x Chartered legal executive
* 2 x Paralegals
* 4 x Secretaries