Senior Associate - Employment

The role

Michelmores is seeking a Senior Associate for its Employment team in Bristol or Exeter. The role is for an experienced lawyer with 5+ years of PQE, focusing on providing expert legal counsel and HR support to clients on a wide range of employment law matters.

What you'll do

• Provide expert legal counsel to clients on a wide range of employment law issues, including employment status and associated rights, contracts and handbooks, redundancy and discrimination
• Provide clear, decisive, commercial and sensitive HR support to clients and their in-house HR teams to ensure the safe and effective management of their workforce, including dealing with grievances, performance issues, sickness absence management and disciplinaries
• Conduct thorough legal research and analysis to support client cases and providing strategic advice
• Manage Employment Tribunal claims from ACAS Early Conciliations right through to Appeal Hearings and Cost Applications
• Represent clients in Employment Tribunals, mediations and other dispute resolution proceedings
• Collaborate with colleagues across all teams within the Firm to deliver comprehensive legal solutions to clients in a timely manner, such as supporting corporate deals, working with our Commercial team to help our clients 'future proof' and expand their businesses and working with our Commercial Dispute Resolutions teams on injunctions and defamation issues
• Stay up to date with changes in employment law, including case law decisions
• Provide regular updates to the rest of the team, drafting related articles and proactively advising clients on changes that may impact their businesses
• Work with our Knowledge Team and Paralegals to update and refine our policies, contracts and templates
• Proactively engage in the team and the Firm's business development projects and strategies, such as attending company and client events, solidifying relationships with clients and partner organisations through events, meetings and training and facilitating referrer relationships

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Benefits