Employment Legal Counsel

  • Taylor Root Dusseldorf
  • Feb 15, 2025
Full time Legal

Job Description

Leading professional services company seeking a new senior employment lawyer to join their highly skilled in-house legal team in London.

This is a unique opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic team, with an interesting and broad spread of contentious and non-contentious employment work on offer. They are looking for an adept and experienced employment lawyer to provide legal support across the organisation's large and varied workforce including:

  1. Contractual agreements
  2. TUPE
  3. Corporate transactions
  4. Restructures
  5. Disputes
  6. Grievances
  7. Disciplinary matters
  8. Internal policies and procedures
  9. Compensation and benefits
  10. Whistleblowing
  11. DEI initiatives
  12. Restrictive covenants
  13. Terminations

This would include managing claims internally and in the courts and tribunals. In addition to supporting on these areas, the role will be to proactively identify and manage legal risk and to liaise with senior stakeholders.

You will have proven experience as an employment lawyer in advisory, corporate support and litigation preferably from a top tier law firm and in-house experience is a bonus. Attitude is important in this collaborative team, so the ideal candidate will be versatile, efficient, proactive with strong drafting skills, mature, discreet and an excellent communicator with strong academics and understanding of employment law.

This is an excellent opportunity offering a broad range of work with genuine exposure to all legal areas affecting the business to do with people.