Employment Senior Associate - Leeds, United Kingdom - DAC Beachcroft

DAC Beachcroft
DAC Beachcroft
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Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The Employment Pensions and Immigration Team at DAC Beachcroft LLP is one of the largest teams in the UK.

We have a strong client base across insurance, health and corporate clients, including a significant number of household names.

Our Leeds employment team is Band 1 ranked, and is led by Louise Bloomfield, who is the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Employment Lawyer of the Year 2024 as well as in The Lawyer Hot 100.

The team is one of the largest employment teams in the North and comprises over 30 team members.

It is also part of the wider Employment, Pensions and Immigration Group across the UK (London, Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle) and the Group overall which has over 120 fee earners.


The Leeds employment team advises many significant public, private and health employers on human resource issues from daily personnel matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, to strategic management issues such as collective redundancy programmes, industrial action, transfers of employees and sensitive hires and exits.

The team handles approximately 2,000 Employment Tribunal claims per annum and we are one of the largest users of the Employment Appeals Tribunal.


At DAC Beachcroft we offer "A Life That Works", a way of working which enables our diverse group of colleagues to balance professional responsibilities with personal commitments.

Flex Forward is how we deliver this.

We offer location based working, fully flex and hybrid working, enabling colleagues to work primarily in office, remotely or a mix of the two, which offer the maximum flexibility for each colleague's role.

We also offer a flexible approach to working hours, enabling colleagues to "glide their time", or flex their hours across the day and week with relaxed core hours, balanced against meeting client and team demands.

Main Responsibilities

  • Undertake a varied workload of employment matters advising employers in a variety of sectors, including major corporates, retail, hospitability, central government, insurance and health work.
  • Be a key player in the management and supervision of the team, clients and relationship development.
  • 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.
  • Support the effective running of the team e.g. contributing to team meetings, leading training, supervising reports and documents of more junior fee earners and providing guidance and feedback, assisting with the allocation of work.
  • Provide support for colleagues where appropriate e.g. progressing matters in senior colleagues' absence, providing technical supervision and skills development, 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.
  • Must have experience of handling tribunal claims from start to finish. Supervising others to do the same is desirable, as is civil and/or appellate court experience (EAT, High Court, Court of Appeal etc).
  • Must have experience of contentious and noncontentious matters, and preferably experience of advising transactional projects involving restructures, TUPE, collective consultation as well general advisory work with clients on senior level or strategic issues, such as executive terminations or collective / industrial relations issues.
  • Prior experience of working with or advising large institutional employers in heavily regulated sectors (e.g. financial services, health, local and central government, PLCs) would be advantageous.
  • Good academic record, together with experience in a 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 l
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