We have an excellent opportunity for an Immigration lawyer to join our Employment and Immigration team and work as a dedicated specialist on a full immigration caseload.
This is your chance to build your reputation for delivering immigration advice to a wide range of our clients – from household names to individuals. You will have the support of the collaborative national team behind you but the opportunity to work closely with our lead immigration practitioners, Emma Morgan and Rachel Harvey to grow and develop this business.
Owing to how our team is structured, we are ideally recruiting in Nottingham but would be open to applicants based in our other office locations such as Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds. The role is likely to involve a mix of home and office working.
The candidate we’re looking for will have experience of both personal and corporate immigration and would be comfortable running their own files. For this reason we’re looking for a 2 yr PQE+ candidate and would be open to those who’ve taken an alternative route and have an equivalent level of experience as a Legal Executive or Paralegal. The types of work we would like the candidate to have experience of are as follows:
- Investor visas, extensions to entrepreneur visas and potentially Global Talent visas;
- EU settlement applications;
- Indefinite leave and naturalisation;
- Family related applications – spousal and dependant visas;
- Skilled Worker visas and ICTs;
- Sponsorship licence applications;
- Compliance and right to work advice and issues;
- Training clients on the above.
The team
Our Employment and Immigration team is widely respected for providing an excellent service and delivering pragmatic and timely legal advice to its highly regarded client base. It’s a collaborative unit, operating on national lines.
We’re conscious that Brexit has accelerated immigration issues across the board and has led to a rapid expansion in clients requests for support with obtaining visas and sponsorship licences. Our immigration team supports individuals and employers alike with a wide range of visa applications, licence applications and right to work requirements as well as compliance more generally and training.
The firm
We are a top 50 law firm with over 200 partners and around 1,600 staff in total. We have 13 locations in the UK and a significant international network. Our clients include some of the largest financial, automotive, and technology businesses in the UK.
We champion diversity and inclusion, and do everything we can to attract and nurture a diverse group of people and to create an environment and culture that is genuinely inclusive, in which every member of staff feels valued for their contribution. We have been awarded Gold status in the Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Charter in recognition of our commitment to this. We were the first major law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People and this year we have secured the Platinum accreditation.
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We are a values-driven business – our values are at the core of the firm and we evaluate how we behave in accordance with these values through a competency framework. This role is considered to be at competency Level 2 in our internal framework.
If you have any queries about this prospect or life at Shoosmiths before deciding whether to apply, we are always happy to have a confidential discussion with you so please get in touch with Rachel Charlton in our recruitment team (Rachel.charlton@shoosmiths.co.uk). |