Robert Walters
Legal Manager - Employment
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Legal Manager - Employment
We're partnering with a leading international law firm to recruit a Legal Manager - Employment to lead a growing, specialist Employment Tribunals team in Birmingham.
You'll keep your hand in on tribunal matters that matter, while taking on real leadership of a team and real influence over how the practice runs – all in an environment built around volume, consistency, and quality rather than billable hours.
Why this role
If you've spent years justifying six-minute units and chasing utilisation targets, this is a genuine change of pace. The focus here is on delivering excellent tribunal work efficiently and well and not on how many hours you can log. The successful Legal Manager - Employment will still be a practising employment lawyer with a caseload, but you'll also have the scope to build something: shape a team, refine how work gets done, and bring in the tools and processes that make everyone's life easier.
What you'll be doing
- Running your own portfolio of Employment Tribunal matters, from pleadings and disclosure through to witness preparation and hearings
- Acting as the escalation point for the most complex or high-stakes tribunal cases
- Leading, supervising, and developing a team of employment lawyers and paralegals
- Acting as the key point of contact between internal Employment teams and client stakeholders
- Shaping how the team operates by building smarter processes, playbooks, and workflows rather than defaulting to more hours
- Bringing legal technology and AI tools into everyday practice to improve delivery and outcomes
- Keeping an eye on quality, consistency, and turnaround, rather than time recorded
- Helping grow the team through recruitment, onboarding, and development
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What you'll bring
- UK qualified solicitor, 7+ years' PQE in Employment Law
- Strong track record running Employment Tribunal litigation, ideally at volume
- Experience supervising or mentoring junior lawyers and/or paralegals
- Confidence managing client and stakeholder relationships
- Comfort with legal technology and AI-enabled tools, or a strong interest in adopting them
- A collaborative, organised, problem-solving mindset
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What's in it for you
This is a genuine opportunity to do meaningful tribunal work and lead a team, without the relentless pressure of the billable hour. You'll work alongside market-leading employment specialists in a business that's investing seriously in a better way of delivering legal services and you'll have real influence over what that looks like.
If you're an employment lawyer ready for more autonomy, more variety, and a lot less clock-watching, this is worth a conversation. Contact Nisha Jassi on nisha.jassi@robertwalters.com
Desired Skills and Experience
Employment, employment law tribunal, restructurings, employment litigation, lawyer, barrister
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