Employment Law Partner
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom or City, Trelawny, Jamaica
Job Summary
Lead and develop the Employment Law practice by shaping the service proposition, growth strategy, and profitability while advising employers and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Manage key client relationships, drive business development, and supervise junior lawyers through technical training and workflow oversight. Represent the team in sensitive workplace matters including investigations, disciplinary processes, and Employment Tribunal litigation. Collaborate with HR, tax, and corporate finance colleagues to deliver integrated solutions for transactions, restructurings, and workforce risk. Drive innovation via legal technology and AI-enabled service delivery to enhance operational efficiency. Maintain high standards of risk management and quality assurance while achieving financial targets for the practice.
Required Qualifications
- Significant post-qualification experience advising on employment law matters in England and Wales
- Ideally gained in a leading law firm or professional services environment
- Strong technical capability across the full employment lifecycle
- Experience leading and managing Employment Tribunal litigation and complex employment disputes
- Ability to draft, review and negotiate employment contracts, service agreements, consultancy arrangements, handbooks, policies, settlement agreements and restrictive covenants
- Demonstrate experience advising on TUPE, collective consultation and the employment aspects of corporate transactions including due diligence warranties, indemnities, restructurings, integrations and business transformation programmes
- Ability to advise on senior executive appointments and exits, boardroom disputes, team moves, restrictive covenant enforcement, fiduciary duty issues and protection of confidential information
- Experience leading and advising on workplace investigations, protected conversations, without prejudice negotiations and complex employee relations matters
- Commercially pragmatic judgement, with the ability to balance legal risk, operational realities, client relationships and reputational, regulatory and financial considerations
- Strong relationship-building skills and the credibility to originate, win and develop work through internal collaboration, referral networks and direct client relationships
- Proven ability to supervise, mentor and develop lawyers and other professional team members while maintaining high standards of technical quality, matter management and client service
- Demonstrable track record of business development, thought leadership, client relationship management and raising the profile of the Employment practice within the market
- Strong commercial awareness, including experience managing profitability, billing, recovery and financial performance of matters and client relationships
- Demonstrable ability to identify opportunities to provide integrated legal and advisory services through collaboration with colleagues across a multidisciplinary professional services environment
- Interest in and ability to leverage legal technology, AI and innovative service delivery solutions to enhance client outcomes and operational efficiency
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally gained in a leading law firm or professional services environment
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