Managing Lawyer, Helix

The role

Dentons is seeking an experienced Managing Lawyer to join their Helix Employment Litigation team in Glasgow, United Kingdom. This role is for a qualified lawyer with significant employment law and Employment Tribunal litigation experience, focused on supervising legal matters and managing client portfolios within the Helix delivery model.

What you'll do

• Supervise employment litigation matters across the team, providing appropriate review, challenge and sign-off
• Act as an escalation point for complex, sensitive or higher-risk matters and ensure consistent legal standards across the portfolio
• Maintain visibility of the claims within the team's portfolio, ensuring every matter has appropriate ownership and supervision, key deadlines and risks are understood, and cases are progressing appropriately
• Allocate and rebalance work across the team based on complexity, capacity and experience
• Ensure work is undertaken at the lowest appropriate level of seniority, while maintaining appropriate supervision
• Provide day-to-day leadership and support to lawyers, including coaching, feedback and development
• Support junior lawyers in developing their litigation skills and independence
• Personally lead or support complex, strategically important or high-risk employment matters where Managing Lawyer involvement is appropriate
• Develop a strong understanding of client requirements, playbooks and risk appetite
• Support client relationships and governance meetings and ensure agreed service levels and ways of working are consistently followed
• Work closely with Helix operational colleagues to manage workflows, capacity, reporting and service performance and resolve delivery issues quickly
• Identify opportunities to improve how employment litigation is delivered, including standardisation, templates, playbooks, process improvement, technology and appropriate use of AI
• Support scoping and pricing of new matters and portfolios, monitor delivery against agreed fees/budgets and support billing and financial management of client accounts
• Support pitches, pilots and new client opportunities and help transition new employment litigation portfolios into the Helix delivery model

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