Hill Dickinson LLP
Senior Associate / Legal Director - Employment
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Job Role: Senior Associate / Legal Director
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Employment
Location: This role can be based at any of our regional offices (Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool/Newcastle/Birmingham)
Role Overview
We are looking for a technically sound employment lawyer with demonstrable experience across a full range of employment matters including contentious, corporate support, advisory and investigations, with appropriate supervision. You will be given plenty of client responsibility and exposure but at the same time be part of a supportive team environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing legal advice to a broad range of clients, from company owners and managers, HR professionals and in-house lawyers, to public and private sector organisations, as well as senior employees and executives, on a range of employment matters.
- Undertake all aspects of employment law advice including drafting employment documents, advising on employee relations issues, including disciplinary matters and grievances, working on Employment Tribunal cases, often including whistleblowing and discrimination claims, advising on dismissals, redundancy and restructuring, assisting with corporate transactions including TUPE matters, and becoming involved in investigations for clients.
- Build and maintain client relationships.
- Build and maintain inter-departmental relationships with peers and key stakeholders in other teams.
- Supervision of junior lawyers, trainees and paralegals within the team.
- Contribute to business development.
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What Are We Looking For
Important criteria:
- Qualified solicitor or equivalent
- Demonstrable experience supporting on contentious, non-contentious and transactional employment matters with appropriate supervision.
- The ability and experience of managing a caseload providing sound commercial advice.
It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:
- An understanding of clients’ needs and expectations.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- The ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Adherence to guidelines and procedures.
- Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours, if required.
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
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We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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