Shepherd and Wedderburn
Solicitor
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We currently have opportunities for talented Scots or English Law Qualified Employment Law Solicitors to join our well-respected and growing team in Scotland (to be located ideally in Edinburgh, but Glasgow also considered). We are looking to recruit two new team members at this time. If you are a passionate employment lawyer, we’d like to hear from you.
This is a rare opportunity for two experienced employment solicitors to join our highly rated and growing employment team. The team offers a fun, collegiate, supportive, and encouraging environment.
There are clear opportunities for career progression for the right candidates. The successful candidates will undertake a full and varied caseload of employment law matters for employer clients (mainly) from a broad range of industry sectors. Many of our clients are household names.
The Role
- Advising daily on a wide range of both routine and complex matters that can be contentious or non-contentious, covering all aspects of employment law;
- Representing clients at the employment tribunal and the employment appeal tribunal, including carrying out any advocacy;
- Helping clients transform their business by advising on strategy and structure of complex collective redundancies, collective bargaining, large-scale changes to terms and conditions, and TUPE transfers and related employee consultation processes;
- Managing a caseload of files as well as assisting senior colleagues on complex matters and working as part of a wider team in relation to corporate, property, or other transactional work.
- Working with our colleagues in immigration, pensions, share incentives, tax, and elsewhere in the Firm to deliver holistic advice to clients.
- Designing and delivering training/seminars/webinars for clients and contacts.
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Candidate Profile
- A minimum of 2 years’ PQE with relevant Employment law experience (Scots or English law qualified) of working with a range of businesses across a range of sectors. Some experience of employee work is helpful but not essential.
- Ideally, we are looking to recruit one employment lawyer with between 2-5 years relevant PQE employment law experience; and one employment lawyer with 6+ years relevant PQE employment law experience. We expect the matters listed below to be present commensurate with the candidate’s level of experience.
- Capable of building and maintaining relationships with internal and external clients.
- A confident communicator, with the experience needed to credibly advise senior colleagues internally and senior representatives of client organisations.
- Commercially astute.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrates potential to display effective spoken and written advocacy skills.
- Personable and professional with the ability to work well on their own initiative and as part of a team.
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