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

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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 s

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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 f

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

• to):Multi-day discrimination, whistleblowing and detriment ca
• ses;Unfair dismissal and wages ca
• ses;Contentious preliminary hearings (jurisdiction, disability, applications e
• tc.)Case management preliminary heari

ngs.
• 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 appropr

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

orts;• Draft articles and legal upd

ates;• Assist with business development initiatives including training and networ

king;• Work in accordance with client and internal

SLAs;• Work in accordance with Weightmans’ values and proced

ures;• Achieve set financial and chargeable tar

gets.
Abo

ut You
You will have previous experience and a genuine and demonstrable interest in the above area o

f work.We also require you to ha

• ve/be:-
  4 + year PQE (although we will consider all candidates who have relevant expe
• rience);Experience of employment tribunal advocacy (including multi-day hearings) is pr
• eferred;Excellent team work
• skills;Attention to
• detail;Strong technical kn
• owledge;Ability to multi-task, work to strict deadlines and
• targets;Excellent communication, time management and organisational
• skills;Flexible a
• pproach;Ideally previous experience of mentoring / supervising junior fee-