We are currently looking for an ambitious and driven Employment Litigation Solicitor to join our award-winning team to head, nurture and grow the Employment Department in a role focussing on HR and Employment Law advice and Dispute Resolution.
This role will focus on dealing with both employers and employees in potential claims both at ACAS stage and through to disposal in the Employment Tribunal acting for both Applicant and Respondent. The candidate will have experience of negotiation through commercial settlement, dealing with Settlement of Claims both through ACAS and Settlement Agreements, able to quantify a potential claim, issuing and defending proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, instructing counsel where necessary, dealing with interim hearings and seeing matters through to full disposal at trial. The candidate will also have experience of drafting contracts of employment, Service Agreements and HR documents and advising employees and employers at early disciplinary stages as to due process. The role will involve handling matters autonomously and assisting the Commercial Litigation and Corporate teams both in relation to Employment Aspects including Due Diligence on Merger and Acquisition and TUPE.
This is a unique opportunity to join our award-winning firm in a senior role with an opportunity to develop the department and with a clear pathway and career progression.
You will be an ambitious individual with good academics. You will be an excellent communicator who is able to interact and build business relationships at all levels. You will have a keen sense of commercial awareness, excellent communication skills, good command over legal and technical principles and the ability to present facts, law and strategies in a reasoned and persuasive manner both to opposition and to clients.
Staff Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Additional days leave for your birthday each year
• Death in service policy based on 4 times salary
Please contact James O’Donnell/Richard Dobson Mason and Rebecca O’Donnell to discuss the role in more detail or apply for the vacancy with immediate consideration by submitting your CV to james@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; richard@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk
Please see our website www.odonnellsolicitors.co.uk for more information about our Employment Litigation services.
