Associate - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Browne Jacobson

Browne Jacobson

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy details:

Associate - Business & Professional Risk - Employment:

Vacancy type

Lawyer

Level

Business area

Business & professional risk

Duration

Permanent

Hours

Full Time

Location

Birmingham, Exeter, Manchester, Nottingham

Reference number

G000/12

Team

Business & Professional Risk (Finance & Professional Risk

Vacancy owner

Louisa Phillips

At Browne Jacobson, we've always worked across business and society, and this expertise sets us apart. Social and environmental impact are at the top of our business agenda. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how we improve outcomes for every person, community and business we serve.

With offices in Birmingham, Dublin, Exeter, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff, we're a UK & I based law firm with an international reach

Our sectors include:

health; real estate and construction; education; energy and infrastructure; financial services; government; insurance; manufacturing and industrials; and retail, consumer and logistics.

We nurture talent at all levels and from every background and celebrate what makes people individuals.

Law needs all voices to reflect the society it serves and we're working towards social mobility, diversity and inclusion in our firm - and our profession.

We strive to create meaningful personal and professional development opportunities and offer flexible working in support of a good work-life balance.

We focus on wellbeing and individuality, so that all our people can thrive.

Why is this role important and how does it fit into the team, department and wider firm?
Providing comprehensive and pragmatic employment advice and support to clients in the education sector.

Our team of legal and HR specialists within the education team have a wealth of knowledge and experience and come highly commended; consistently featured in Band One of the Legal 500 and Chambers UK listings.

At the core of our approach is our objective to help our education clients do what is fundamentally right for their pupils and their organisation as a whole.

To build excellent relationships with clients at all levels, striving to deliver pragmatic, sector orientated advice that is carefully aligned to client's interests and at the forefront of national best practice.

To build excellent relationships with colleagues, relating well to people at all levels within the firm, building team spirit and showing a collegial commitment to ongoing development of the firm's services to the education sector.

What does the role actually involve?

To provide solution focused, pragmatic employment advice to clients in the education sector including:
Advising Schools and Academies on the full range of employment law issues that affect their organisation. This requires a commitment to understanding their sector context as it evolves and the terms and conditions they operate under.
Advocacy in employment tribunals, from Directions Hearings, Preliminary Hearings through to Full Hearings (not normally longer than five days, for which we would generally use Counsel)
Ability to prepare for employment tribunal cases, including preparation of Claim/Response, preparing and answering discrimination questionnaires, Interlocutory Applications, Witness Statements, Skeleton Arguments
Drafting contracts, policies and procedures; advising clients on what procedures are required
Advise on union issues including how to navigate negotiating policies, restructures and changing t&cs in a unionised context. As well as advising on industrial action in the national and local context.
Advising on TUPE, including on academy transfers and projects as well as general transfer queries
General advice, e.g., conduct of disciplinary investigations; grievance procedures; redundancy programmes; holiday pay (including issues around term time only employees); general queries about flexible working, maternity rights, paternity rights etc.
Maximise new business opportunities for the firm seeing them through to successful completion
Undertake public speaking at conferences and other events, demonstrating credibility
Write blog posts and advisory articles on an adhoc basis for both Browne Jacobson materials as well as sector publications and websites
Deliver exceptional client service at all times, keeping the client at the centre of all that we do
Keep abreast of sector developments and changes in order to ensure that advice is compliant, and sector focused
Delegate to and supervise more junior members of the team, as required
Contribute towards the marketing efforts and other nonfeeearning projects of the department, including assisting in the preparation of and /or speaking at seminars, drafting training programmes, keeping precedents upto date and contributing to Employment Bulletins
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