Employment Associate (ideally 3-6+PQE)- Bristol
Job Introduction
The Employment Pensions and Immigration Team at DAC Beachcroft LLP is one of the largest teams in the UK with over 110 fee earners and 17 Partners. The Team advises public, private and third sector employers on human resource issues from daily personnel matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, to strategic management issues such as collective redundancy programmes, industrial action, transfers of employees both within and outside the UK. The Team handles approximately 1,000 Employment Tribunal claims per annum.
At DAC Beachcroft we offer “A Life That Works”, a way of working which enables our diverse group of colleagues to balance professional responsibilities with personal commitments. Flex Forward is how we deliver this. We offer location based working, fully flex and hybrid working, enabling colleagues to work primarily in office, remotely or a mix of the two, which offer the maximum flexibility for each colleague’s role. We also offer a flexible approach to working hours, enabling colleagues to “glide their time”, or flex their hours across the day and week with relaxed core hours.
Role Responsibility
- Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including health, telecoms, finance and insurance.
- Progress and manage a wide variety of client matters both contentious and non-contentious, and of varying complexity and scale.
- Maintain an awareness of the appropriate limits of own competence/authority.
- Actively identify and exploit business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and own contacts.
- Participate in and initiate marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients.
- This includes presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars, taking part in pitches and contributing positively to business development.
- Maintain and develop technical knowledge through leading and attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
- Handle confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols.
The Ideal Candidate
- An experienced Associate (ideally 3-6+ PQE) with a demonstrable interest or some previous experience, and real zeal to practice in this area
- Solid track record in terms of academics
- Good relationship and client handling skills. Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues. Able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority
- An ability to adopt a client focused and commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues, coupled with a keen grasp of legal issues, as these arise (demonstrating a clear ability to learn quickly ‘on the job’)
- Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives
- Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
DAC Beachcroft