From 1 May 2018 the Employment and Immigration Team at IBB Solicitors consists of 3 Partners, 2 Solicitors and a paralegal. All the Partners are individually rated in leading industry directories (Chambers & Partners and Legal 500). The team:
- Predominantly acts for employers, ranging from national and international corporates to SMEs.
- Also advises employees on exit negotiations and employment disputes.
- Is known by its clients for taking a creative and proactive approach to resolving workplace problems, helping them find the best possible outcome for their employment issues.
- Works to resolve disputes quickly and cost effectively, from training and advice through to representation at Employment Tribunal.
- Provides policy reviews and expert preventative training for Human Resources teams. Clients are provided with regular newsletters, bespoke training programmes and email news alerts on a regular basis.
- Provides guidance and support for major organisational changes, restructures and business sales. The team have a particular expertise in TUPE issues, often advising businesses on how to reduce the impact of TUPE in a transaction.
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The Employment and Immigration team are looking for a proactive, ambitious Solicitor to join their thriving well respected team. The individual in question will be exposed to a diverse caseload and have the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally in the role.
You will be focusing on providing legal advice to the team’s clients as well as engaging in business development activities. |
Provide a high quality legal service to clients on all aspects of employment law including:
- Reviewing and drafting employment contract, policies, procedures and staff handbooks;
- Representing Claimants and Respondents in Employment Tribunal proceedings – drafting ET1 & 3s, preparing for preliminary hearings, drafting applications, dealing with disclosure of documents, drafting witness statements, advocacy in preliminary hearings;
- Advising on and drafting settlement discussions and COT3 agreements;
- Advising employers on general HR/employment law issues including disciplinary and grievance procedures, discrimination and whistleblowing - advising on options, risks, drafting paperwork, advising and supporting the client through processes;
- Advising employers on collective workplace issues – redundancy, restructure, TUPE. Advising on options, risks, advising on procedure, drafting paperwork, advising the client through any processes;
- Advising employees on settlement agreements, disputes, exit negotiations, grievances and restrictive covenant issues.
Develop own technical knowledge and skills including:
- Ability to analyse information and reach sound decisions
- Ability to understand and adhere to instructions
- Ability to communicate succinctly both orally and in writing
Ensure you remain professionally up to date by attaining and recording CPD, as well as developing knowledge of the marketplace and client base.
Meet the firm’s quality standards including:
- Ensuring personal time recording & billing targets are achieved;
- Ensuring that all chargeable work is properly recorded on client matters;
- Adhering to the Law Society’s client care directive and to the firm’s own policies as set out in the Office Manual;
- Maintaining good file management as set out in the Office Manual;
- Understanding the obligations relating to client accounts and ensuring preparation and delivery of bills in accordance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules.
Assist the team in its marketing objectives, to include activities such as attending client events, writing text/articles for the firm’s website and other publications, and assisting the partners in organising marketing events. You will be required to present at client seminars, as and when required.
Develop own self-organisational and interpersonal skills so that:
- Work is prioritised and progressed
- You demonstrate a balance of working on your own initiative and seeking advice or guidance
- Partners are aware of your workload and specific issues which arise on your matters
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Education/ Qualifications
- Educated to degree level (with at least a 2:1) and a strong LPC pass or equivalent
- Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors with a clean Practising Certificate.
Skills and Experience
- Recently qualified with employment law experience as a qualified solicitor together with sound technical knowledge of employment law.
- You must have strong analytical ability and be able to identify and deal with the core elements of a problem succinctly.
- Be adaptability and able and willing to embrace change. You will need to be responsive to different ways of working and be a quick learner.
- Collaboration with others: able to work with others to achieve a task; is an active team member; able to build and sustain good working relationships with others.
- Communication: able to express one clearly orally and in writing, and to do so in a manner that is concise and assertive, but courteous.
- Quality: produces work which is consistently accurate and good quality drafts
- Initiative: thinks through what may need to be done and makes suggestions; demonstrates ability to offer assistance to colleagues who are busy and/or get involved in areas outside immediate work.
- Planning and organising: thinks ahead to plan work so that existing tasks are not affected when additional tasks arise; is able to track and monitor progress of own work and manages expectations of the Team Leader if deadlines cannot be met
- Reliability: demonstrates commitment to achieving tasks; manages expectations of others and completes work when promised.
- Commerciality: ability to offer commercial and pragmatic advice to clients, in plain English.
- IT literacy: good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including; Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint and self-sufficient in using document management systems and the internet as a business tool.
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