Employment Senior Associate / Partner
- Employer
- JMC Legal Recruitment
- Location
- England, London, City of London
- Salary
- £68000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 23 Jul 2019
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Mid Level, Partner-designate, Partner
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Employment, General Employment
- PQE
- 4-6 Years, 7+ Years, Partner
Job Details
This role would be the perfect step up in terms of progression, perhaps you might feel you have hit a glass ceiling in your current role?
This award-winning and prestigious firm are Nationally acclaimed and have strong International capabilities. Despite being ranked in the top 100, they have a culture that is far from the usual commercial machine culture of most firms of this size. The firm has a total people focused approach, where legal talent is nurtured and developed.
The firm
This top 100 firm covers an extremely diverse range of legal services, which includes a number of niche specialist areas. They are ranked as top tier across a growing number of practice areas. They now employ over 2,500 staff across a number of offices Nationally.
The firm provides legal services every year to over 200,000 clients.
On top of its commitment to reducing its environmental impact and providing pro bono legal advice to those who cannot afford access to justice, the law firms charitable foundation has provided over £1.8million to charity since its inception.
You will find a refreshing culture, which is entrepreneurial, forward-thinking and friendly. You will find that there are a large number of homegrown talent, which demonstrates there internal training and progression potential.
You will find that Partners are accessible to all, and even seating has been well-thought out to ensure that training, support and mentoring are always on hand.
The role
The firm are seeking to hire an Employment Senior Associate / Partner into their modern and newly refurbished City of London office.
The department is ranked highly in the legal 500 and the team is one of the largest nationally. The team is dynamic and punches well above their weight. You work with the other partners to drive the department forwards. They support their clients out of their national and international offices.
The firm's highly rated employment team handles a wide range of excellent quality contentious and non-contentious work including advisory work on HR issues, disputes related work in the tribunal and courts, drafting employment documentation, employee relations and transaction/outsourcing work. The team's workload is increasingly top end, complex, premium work and accordingly we are working to strengthen our capacity at that level.
There are excellent prospects here for progression with the continued growth of this department and the firm.
This role comes with good prospects and career development.
Requirements
- You will be an Employment Lawyer with at least 7 years PQE (there are no upper limits regarding the amount of PQE and applications are invited from the most experienced candidates)
- You will have good commercial awareness and strong drafting skills
- Experience of managing more junior colleagues is to advantage, but not essential
- A meticulous eye for detail is essential
- Salary is competitive and dependent on your background and level of experience, plus an excellent benefits package
This is an excellent opportunity for an Employment Senior Associate / Partner to join a prestigious, Top 100 firm based in the City of London office.
Apply now for immediate consideration or feel free to give me a call for a confidential conversation.
Company
JMC Legal Recruitment was founded by highly experienced Legal Recruitment Consultant, Jason Connolly. His motivation to establish JMC was to create a refreshingly friendly agency with a truly consultative approach and who are always a pleasure to deal with.
We're a dynamic business with our sights set high and a growing client base spanning the country. We believe that in any business the most valuable assets are the people – and it’s true of JMC, too. Whether dealing with candidates or firms, our consultants’ passion for legal recruitment and excellent market knowledge always shines through. Our state of the art software means our consultants are more accessible to you and we keep ahead of the curve in the changing legal landscape to ensure you are always given up to date advice.
What can you expect from us? We will always manage your expectations and come back to you with updates as soon as they become available. We pride ourselves on the highest level of integrity, as we understand that when looking for a new role or member of staff it is often highly confidential. You will find that we always take the time to really listen and understand before we advise. We will get to know you, taking into account not just technical ability, but personality and cultural fit. We’re also easy to get hold of; we appreciate that when looking for a new role it can be difficult to talk during the working day, so we will make ourselves available and find a time that works for you. Give us a call and talk to one of our friendly team today. We’re waiting to help you.
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