The vacancy
Moore Barlow is currently seeking an Employment lawyer (Solicitor or Legal Executive) to join our Schools & Charities Team based at our offices in Guildford.
More About Us
Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow is a leading law firm with an aim to be the best law firm to work for regionally. We are a career firm, providing access to high-quality work, long-term career opportunities and an environment built on the premise of being “human first” in everything we do. Put simply,
we care as much about your career as you do.
We are featured in The Times’
Best Law Firms 2024 list and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in both the
Legal 500 and
Chambers & Partners, including specific recognition for our work advising Schools & Charities.
We are now 450 people, including 280 lawyers and 58 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.
More About The Schools & Charities Team
Our leading Schools & Charities Team, led by Joanna Lada-Walicki, is a nationally recognised team that provides specialist advice to independent schools and charitable organisations across the UK. The team offer a deep understanding of the unique regulatory, operational, and governance challenges faced by these sectors. The team provide tailored legal and practical solutions to support their clients’ objectives and ensure compliance with statutory obligations. The team includes employment/education lawyers, charity lawyers and property lawyers.
The team covers a broad spectrum of legal services, including;
- Employment & HR advice and support on a wide range of issues including contracts of employment, staff handbooks, conduct and capability issues (including safeguarding allegations against current and former staff), sickness and other absences, discrimination and the Equality Act, redundancies and restructures and The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) including arrangements to exit the TPS.
- Education law advice including terms and conditions between a school and parents, parental complaints, advice on admissions of pupils, special educational needs, disability and reasonable adjustments, safeguarding and child protection issues including child on child abuse.
- Governance and compliance; assisting schools and other charities with their constitution, conflicts of interest and providing training to assist governing bodies fulfil their responsibilities effectively; and advice on filing serious incident reports
- Mergers and acquisitions and School closures and TUPE advice in relation to service provision changes.
- Property advice and support in relation to a wide range of issues.
- Assisting with the setup of charities (including School charities) and advising on appropriate legal structures.
Day To Day
As an employment and education Solicitor, you will you will work closely with other team members and you will also be given responsibility to manage your own workload.
Issues on which you are likely to working include advice on employment contracts & HR policies, grievance & disciplinary procedures, restructuring & redundancy and performance management and, safeguarding. You will also advise on matters relating to pupils and parents (education law) including safeguarding issues. Depending on your level of experience, you will be given training and support to enable you to develop your expertise in this area.
This position will offer you an excellent opportunity for further professional growth and development. You will receive extensive mentoring and support from the team as you carve out your reputation as an expert in this area and progress towards a position of greater responsibility within the team.
What We Look For
- A qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive with prior experience of giving employment law advice. Prior experience of education law (i.e. advice to school on issues relating to pupils and parents) is an advantage but is not essential.
- We do not tend to use PQE as the sole measure of experience, but this position would suit somebody between NQ – 3PQE.
- You will be calm under pressure, adopt a naturally proactive approach to your work, and have the ability to adapt to changing priorities at short notice.
- We are human-first in everything we do and seek people who share this trait. You will therefore have great communication skills, a passion for helping clients achieve their goals and the ability to think creatively.
- Whilst this position is offered full-time, we offer a split of working from home and the office. We are a flexible team and are open to considering alternative working patterns.
If you have the required skills and experience and are keen to advance your career as part of our leading Schools & Charities Team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before applying, please contact Brandon Duchesne, Talent Acquisition Manager, for an informal conversation -
[email protected].
Who We Are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What We Can Offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
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