DAC Beachcroft
Associate - Employment
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Department: Employment, Pensions and Immigration - North
Location: Newcastle
Description
DAC Beachcroft's Employment, Pensions and Immigration team is one of the largest teams in the UK. The team works for a range of market-leading clients across the financial services, healthcare, and commercial sectors and is recognised as Band/Tier 1 in both the latest Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK rankings.
DAC Beachcroft’s Northern England offices; Leeds, Manchester, and Newcastle EPI teams work closely together, with a focus on providing a seamless service to our client base across the North and nationally, giving DAC Beachcroft a market-leading powerhouse in the North of the country.
The Newcastle team has a strong reputation in the North East market, acting for a stable of significant household name corporates as well as being a market leader in the public and independent health sectors.
For more information on our Employment and Pensions expertise, please go to DAC Beachcroft's Employment and Pensions Expertise
The Newcastle team currently comprises 2 Partners, 15 lawyers, and 6 paralegal and administrative colleagues. To support the continued expansion, we are seeking an additional Paralegal to join the team, primarily supporting our solicitors with their caseload of employment claims. This role will, at least initially, include working with our team supporting a major national retailer in its defence of high-profile multiple equal pay claims.
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This is a fee-earning role and a core element of the role will be to undertake a wide range of document management activities including collating and redacting documents and preparing document bundles for use at Tribunal and Court hearings. Attendance and supporting witnesses and Counsel and taking notes at hearings across the country may also be required, either in person, or remotely.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake a busy and varied workload of employment matters advising all types of employers, with an emphasis on our financial services sector clients.
- Work on complex discrimination, whistleblowing, and breach of contract litigation (Employment Tribunal and High Court) under appropriate supervision.
- Assist on non-contentious projects including restructures (redundancy and TUPE) in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions.
- General employment advisory work by telephone and email.
- Take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and paralegals.
- Take part in and initiate marketing, networking, and other business development activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients. This includes assisting with client seminars and delivering training.
- Contribute to non fee-earning activity as appropriate e.g. knowledge sharing, internal training.
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Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- We would expect the post holder to be 3+ PQE.
- Ideally experience of advising multi-national commercial clients.
- Must have experience of working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters.
- Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients.
- Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships with clients and influence at all levels.
- Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach.
We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.
For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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