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Employment Lawyer

Employer
Burges Salmon
Location
Bristol
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
18 Jul 2018
Reference
EL05/18~39096

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Practice area
Employment
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
2 years, 3 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

We are looking to recruit an employment lawyer with good quality experience from a leading law firm.

You should be a strong team player with excellent technical ability and commercial skills. You should also be able to manage a complex and varied workload effectively, as the successful candidate will undertake work in all areas of our busy employment practice.

Team

Ranked in top tier by both Chambers and the Legal 500, Burges Salmon's employment team comprises four partners and 20 lawyers. Our team is “staffed with excellent lawyers who offer extremely commercial advice in a very user-friendly manner" and is “adept at advising on domestic and cross-border issues” (Chambers).

The team has experience in a variety of sectors, including financial services, energy, transport, the public sector and defence. We have broad expertise derived from acting on many high-profile employment projects and cases, including cross-border and international work in conjunction with our established network of preferred firms.

Work

Our practice is renowned for “displaying consummate knowledge and pragmatism, combining an overall excellent level of service with strength in depth.” (Legal 500).

We provide advice to a wide range of both private and public sector clients on all aspects of employment law, including strategic employment law, major HR projects such as outsourcing and restructuring, employment law compliance (eg gender pay gap reporting and GDPR), executive severance, trade union and collective issues, employment contracts and policies, day to day advice, training on HR issues and business immigration.

We also advise on the full range of employment tribunal and High Court litigation, including team moves and enforcing restrictive covenants.

Clients include Thomson Reuters, John Lewis, Babcock International Group, BAE Systems, Bank of Ireland, FirstGroup, Ofgem, University of Bristol, Wessex Water and Reiss.

Further information

http://www.burges-salmon.com/Practices/employment/default.aspx

Contact

For further information please contact, in confidence: angela.parfitt@burges-salmon.com Tel: 0117 307 6026.

Applications

Please apply via our website at www.burges-salmon.com/careers.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunities employer.

No agencies please.

Company

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.

Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.

Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.

Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.

We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment.  The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.

If you are interested in opportunities, either advertised or on a speculative basis and would like to speak to someone, please contact angela.parfitt@burges-salmon.com Tel: +44 (0) 117 307 6026.

Company info
Telephone
01173076026
Location
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
Choose a State/Province
BS2 0ZX
GB

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