Geldards LLP
Associate/Senior Associate - Employment
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About the Role
Geldards LLP is a leading regional law firm with offices in Cardiff, Derby, Nottingham and London. We are currently recruiting for an Associate or Senior Associate to join our Employment team.
This role presents a fantastic opportunity to grow and develop your career within an experienced team. This role will be based in the Nottingham office but will work as part of the wider national team providing excellent, high quality legal advice to new and existing clients.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in various projects as well as business development activities such as our Employment Power Hours and seminars.
Department: Employment
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Nottingham
Workplace type: Hybrid
Reporting To: Lowri Phillips
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clients with appropriate guidance and advice on all aspects of employment law.
- Draft, review, analyse and negotiate a wide range of legal documents relevant to the area of law.
- Undertake case management of employment tribunal claims and undertake tribunal advocacy when required.
- Advise on case strategy and proactively make service improvements and cross-referrals.
- Analyse problems, highlight areas of risk and think critically to resolve issues.
- Exercise sound financial management by ensuring that work is undertaken at the right level.
- Ensure an excellent standard of time recording as well as meeting chargeable hours and billing targets.
- Develop and maintain good client relationships and enhance the Firm’s client base by effective liaison with existing and new clients.
- Demonstrate a planned approach to business development, attending events and actively targeting new work.
- Maintain the level of competence and knowledge to practice efficiently by keeping abreast with changes and developments in the law.
- Proactively share advice and knowledge with team members, supervising junior members where required.
- Actively participate in team business development including preparation of articles, briefing guides and training sessions, including delivery of training sessions.
- Proactively develop an understanding of other complementary areas of work such as data protection, business immigration and any other relevant areas.
- Lead by example at all times in line with the SRA standards.
- Any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade and post.
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Qualified Solicitor or CILEx with relevant experience in the field of employment law and an excellent level of technical legal knowledge.
- Ability to manage complex caseloads, prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
- Ability to communicate confidently with clients and colleagues.
- A confident presenter with the ability to project a professional image.
- Experience of employment tribunal work and advocacy would be desirable.
- Experience of or willingness to develop expertise in business immigration and data protection law is desirable.
Benefits
In return, you will have the opportunity to develop your career within our top ranking Employment team based in our open and friendly Nottingham office and will be paid a competitive salary (dependent on experience), as well as qualifying for other benefits listed below.
- 35 hour working week - Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to a maximum of 30 days for additional years of service)
- A day off on your birthday each year (or closest working day)
- Agile Working Policy (3 days in the office 2 days working remotely dependent on team)
- Life Assurance (x3 times salary)
- Team bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Professional Subscription Fees
- Pension Scheme (Legal and General)
- Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
- Salary Sacrifice Options (Including Cycle to Work Scheme, additional pension contributions and annual leave purchase options)
- Employee Legal Services Discounts
- On-site barista
- Complimentary car parking at selected NCPs
- Opportunity to take part in various groups such as Geldards People, Diversity Equality & Inclusion Champions, IT Champions, Knowledge Management champions and more.
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We are committed to ensuring that the organisation removes any unnecessary barriers to the employment of any individual. We recognise that when you are living with a disability, chronic illness or neurodiversity having some form of reasonable adjustment, whether physical or extra time for written tasks for example can allow you the opportunity to compete on equal terms. If you are subsequently invited for an interview, are there any adjustments we can make to the recruitment process to make it better or more accessible to you? If so, please feel free to let us know.
About Geldards
Established over 100 years ago in Wales, we are a strong and successful full-service national law firm.
From our offices in Cardiff, Derby, Nottingham and London, our team of over 320 talented individuals support a broad range of clients throughout the UK, Europe and Internationally.
At our core, we are an open and friendly business with an unshakeable integrity. Our strength lies in our ability to nurture technically gifted, committed and responsible individuals. We aim to develop long term, mutually beneficial relationships with all our clients.
We deliver quality legal advice and seek to continuously improve our service by setting aspirational goals that underpin our everyday work. More effective working practices, including the use of innovative technology, and rigorous environmental targets are just some of the ways that we will continue to deliver an excellent service to both longstanding and new clients alike.
We offer high quality and practical legal advice to a broad range of private and public sector organisations including, local authorities, public bodies, charities, and government agencies as well as private individuals and families.
Our Hiring Process
- Stage 1: Applied
- Stage 2: Review
- Stage 3: Interview
- Stage 4: Offer
- Stage 5: Hired
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