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Head of Employment - Boutique Commercial Legal 500 Firm

Employer
QED Legal
Location
England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
Salary
£50000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
Closing date
2 May 2018
Reference
BBBH17705

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Practice area
Employment
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
7 years+
Position
Legal executive, Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

Fantastic opportunity for a Senior Employment Solicitor / FCILEX to join this boutique Commercial firm based in North Manchester. You will be fronting a Legal 500 listed department and will be dealing with top quality work on behalf of blue chip clients and household companies.

You will ideally be a Solicitor with at least 8 Years' PQE+ and have experience of providing respondent employment law advice. Whilst the department is only small in terms of headcount, they have a tremendous reputation and a strong billing history. Ideally you will have gained good experience of working on quality employment law matters at a strong city or regional firm. The opportunity for Partnership will be available for the right candidate.

The team deal with both contentious and non-contentious work and are forging a reputation for servicing large clients and providing an outstanding quality of work. The role will be dealing with mostly respondent work (with a small amount of quality claimant work) advising an impressive range of regional and national clients, and some individuals. You will be dealing with a wide range of employment matters including review of contracts and policies and procedures, advising on termination of employment, advising and drafting on settlement agreements, providing corporate support on commercial agreements and corporate transactions, and representation during employment tribunal cases.

This firm have focus on providing client care and so they therefore deliver fantastic results for their clients as well as being able to find commercial solutions in the shortest possible timescale.

Salary for this role will exceed £50,000+ plus a fantastic benefits scheme in place with a and a tremendous work/life balance. Please contact Nick Skelly at QED Legal for further information on this role.

Company

QED
An acronym of the latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum which translates as "thus it is demonstrated" or "that which was to be demonstrated". It is most often used as an annotation at the end of a complex mathematical, scientific or philosophical argument to show that the author had proven what he had set out to prove. In recent times it has also been translated as "Quite Easily Done".

As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your firm or your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers

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