Solicitor

About your new role

Our market leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team is seeking an employment lawyer with a focus on advocacy to cover Employment Tribunal hearings, from case management preliminary hearings to multi-day full-merits hearings, both in-person and by video. We advise clients 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 any one of our offices but working as part of our national Employment, Pensions and Immigration team and subject to our hybrid working policy. However, it should be noted that the position will involve travel to cover hearings throughout the UK, although travel will be limited wherever it is possible to do so.

As a lawyer and Employment Advocate 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:

Primarily covering employment tribunal hearings, including (but not limited to):

• Multi-day discrimination, whistleblowing and detriment cases;
• Unfair dismissal and wages cases;
• Contentious preliminary hearings (jurisdiction, disability, applications etc.)
• Case management preliminary hearings.

• Employment law advice to a wide range of clients, including unfair dismissal, disciplinary, grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination, detriment claims and equal pay;

• Assist with the supervision and management members of the team with their caseloads as appropriate;

• Draft and prepare documents, tribunal responses, bundles, witness statements and reports;

• 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.

About You

You will have previous experience and a genuine and demonstrable interest in the above area of work.

We also require you to have/be:-

• 4 + year PQE (although we will consider all candidates who have relevant experience);
• Experience of employment tribunal advocacy (including multi-day hearings) is preferred;
• Excellent team work skills;
• Attention to detail;
• Strong technical knowledge;
• Ability to multi-task, work to strict deadlines and targets;
• Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills;
• Flexible approach;
• Ideally previous experience of mentoring / supervising junior fee-earners.