Our market leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team is seeking an employment lawyer with a focus on employment litigation and advisory work for various Police forces.
We advise clients (and Police forces) across the UK including some of the UK's largest and best known employers. We believe that the quality of our clients and strength of our relationships with them speaks volumes about the quality of the service we provide. Our teams are highly ranked in the Legal Directories and have ambitions to grow further.
The position can be based from our Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Nottingham offices but working as part of our national Employment, Pensions and Immigration team (with a focus on police employment work) and subject to our hybrid working policy.
As a lawyer in our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team, this is a great opportunity to play an integral role in growing our business, working alongside Partners to drive the practice forward, with scope for career development. You will manage a mixed caseload of employment work and will be responsible for:
- Employment law advice to a wide range of Police force clients, including unfair dismissal, disciplinary, grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination, detriment claims and equal pay with a focus on running Employment Tribunal cases,
including attendance (and advocacy if applicable) at preliminary or other interim hearings;
- Draft and prepare documents, tribunal responses, bundles, witness statements and reports etc;
- Assist with the supervision and management of members of the team with their caseloads as appropriate;
- Draft articles and legal updates;
- Assist with business development initiatives including training and networking;
- Work in accordance with client and internal SLAs;
- Work in accordance with Weightmans’ values and procedures;
- Achieve set financial and chargeable targets.