Solicitor

Weightmans is a Top 45 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards and achieved several top rankings in Chambers UK 2016, we are immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people.

Our market leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team advises employers across the UK on all aspects of employment, pensions and immigration law. Our clients are some of the UK's largest and best known employers. We believe that the quality of our clients and strength of our relationships with our clients speaks volumes about the quality of the service we provide.

To form part of the Employment team, managing your own caseload of contentious and non-contentious work and providing advice to clients on all aspects of employment law including discrimination law, TUPE and Equal Pay.

Key responsibilities

• Manage own caseload of contentious cases including advocacy in the employment tribunal

• Provide advice to clients on all aspects of employment law both in person and on a telephone advice line

• Supervise junior employees

• Deliver training to clients

• Achieve set financial and chargeable targets

• Complete client MI procedures as and when required

• Adhere to Lexcel and organisation processes and procedures

  This job spec is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to carry out other duties that fall within the remit of the role

• Qualified as a solicitor, circa 2-4yrs PQE

• Excellent knowledge of employment law

• Employment tribunal experience

• Knowledge of equal pay will be advantageous

• Ability to work to deadlines and targets

• Extensive experience of working effectively with others in a similar work setting

• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent organisational skills

Please note:

• Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.

• The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.