Bevan Brittan LLP
Employment Senior Associate/Legal Director (Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds)
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Our Employment, Pensions and Immigration Team
Our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team continues to be a market leader across a range of sectors including the local and central government, health and care, finance services, commercial, higher education and housing sectors.
The team operates on a truly national basis, providing our lawyers with the opportunity to work with a variety of colleagues and clients. Acting for employers, our roster of clients includes national and multi-national organisations, and we support them to improve their employment practices and manage workforce issues, as well as defending employment claims and seeking to mitigate risks for clients. We act alongside our complementary multi-disciplinary teams including information law, pensions, immigration and commercial.
Bevan Brittan has strong recognition in the independent legal directories - Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. In both guides we are consistently ranked in the top tier for our practices across the UK, with multiple individuals recognised as leading lawyers.
We have worked with the firm for over 20 years and are never disappointed with the service and outcomes. The lawyers are responsive and helpful, making stressful situations easy to manage. Legal 500, 2026
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join us, who will be ideally well placed to be assigned to one of our regional locations including Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds. We operate a very flexible hybrid working model.
This particular role will have a primary focus in the higher/further education, regulatory bodies and financial services sectors, although there will be opportunities to work in other areas.
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Bevan Brittan is proud of its full service offering and embedded multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting our clients. Building relationships, both externally with our clients and across our internal teams, is key. The nature of the markets in which we operate, and quality of our client base will provide the opportunity and flexibility to work on novel and complex employment law issues across both contentious and non-contentious matters.
With your skill and expertise, it is envisaged that you would:
- Manage your own caseload across both contentious and non-contentious work areas
- Work with and support relevant partner leads and colleagues across all four of our offices
- Provide management and supervisory support to junior colleagues
- Support on BD, training and client relationship management
You would be supervising and advising on employee relations matters including internal disciplinary/grievance/capability processes, reviewing policies and procedures and contracts, advising on equalities obligations, conduct of and/or support on Employment Tribunals, advising on TUPE processes including inputting into drafting of commercial agreements as well as delivering training on a broad range of employment issues and supporting business development.
With significant volumes of new litigation instructions every year, our Employment team's litigation experience is second to none. Whether in the Tribunal, the EAT, the Court of Appeal or the High Court you will have the chance to be involved in ground-breaking employment litigation.
What We Are Looking For From You
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The successful candidate will be involved in providing sound, commercial employment advice and would have the following skill set/experience:
- Supervision of junior colleagues
- A broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment experience, ideally gained across one or more of our key markets, including financial services, general commercial, regulatory bodies and higher/further education
- Case management of complex ET claims
- Advising on employee relations issues including settlement negotiations
- Reviewing/drafting policies
- Contractual and policy advice
- Senior exits
- Advising on restructures/redundancy processes and TUPE issues
- Undertaking transactional due diligence, often as part of a wider corporate or commercial transaction
- Some advocacy experience desirable but not essential
- Good client management skills and an interest in business development
We offer a structured career pathway to meet both your and our needs.
Make a Real Impact
Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Explore our markets and services here.
We are highly ranked across the legal directories and our 2025/26 financial results confirmed thirteen years of consecutive growth.
Our Responsible Business pillars influence how we work together and motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and communities.
We support our people to be their best and, through our hybrid working model, we offer the flexibility to work your week in a way that suits you.
We’re looking for the best people to share in our ambition and success. Visit our Life page to discover what life at Bevan Brittan could look like for you.
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