Employment Associate - Leeds, United Kingdom - DAC Beachcroft

DAC Beachcroft
DAC Beachcroft
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Leeds, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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The Employment and Pensions Group at DAC Beachcroft is over 90 strong with 17 Partners and a presence in London, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol.

We have a thriving and large commercial client base and a strong public sector client base, including a significant number of household names and listed businesses.

Each team is highly ranked in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Guides.


The Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle teams work closely together with a focus on providing a seamless service to our client base across the North and nationally.

We are looking for additional lawyers to join us, ideally in Leeds but other locations will be considered, due to recent client wins.


The team advises clients on issues from daily personnel matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, to strategic management issues such as redundancy programmes, industrial action, and transfers of employees.

We also work closely with our commercial and corporate colleagues to provide support on transactional matters.

We operate a flexible working policy across the team, with hybrid working the norm.

Main Responsibilities

  • Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including retail, health, logistics and insurance work.
  • Progress and manage a wide variety of client matters both contentious and noncontentious, and of varying complexity and scale.
  • Manage own matters, time and relationships with minimum supervision.
  • Maintain an awareness of the appropriate limits of own competence/authority.
  • Actively identify and exploit business development opportunities and marketing activity for team clients and own contacts.
  • Participate in and initiate marketing / network activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients.
  • This includes presenting and assisting in client and other external seminars, taking part in pitches and contributing positively to business development.
  • Maintain and develop technical knowledge through leading and attending training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
  • Provide support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in colleagues' absence, supporting CRM activities.
  • Continually monitoring and taking responsibility for own financial performance and demonstrating proactive financial management; attention to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection, accounting procedures and client service level agreements.
  • Handle confidential data in line with the firm's data security protocols. Key skills
  • Must have experience of handling tribunal claims from start to finish, and supervising others to do the same. Civil and/or appellate court experience (EAT, High Court, Court of Appeal etc) is desirable.
  • Must have experience of contentious and noncontentious matters, and preferably experience of advising on major projects involving restructures, M&A, TUPE, collective consultation as well general advisory work with clients on senior level issues, such as executive terminations or restrictive covenant disputes.
  • Good academic record, together with experience in a wellrecognised firm dealing with respondent work.
  • Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients. Up to date knowledge of key trends in order to maintain credibility in conversations with clients.
  • Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing and influence at all levels, in particular HR Director/General Counsel level.
  • Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach, and demonstrates role model behaviours at all times.
  • Track record of business development is desirable.
About The Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities.

We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami.

We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies.

We act for all of the UK's top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK's top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the 'Leading Individual' rankings
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