🚀 Employment Associate - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Legal Expertise

• Understanding of legal principles of own practice area, along with a working knowledge of other practice areas.
• Has project management responsibility, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Stays aware of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.

Client Focus

• Has good working relationships with clients.
• Has a good understanding of client, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.

Team Work & Interpersonal Skills

• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Has strong relationships and profile amongst senior colleagues.
• Ability to work effectively with others.

Firm Mindedness

• Understands the industry and market in which the practice stream and clients operate.
• Contributes to the management of the group/practice area by understanding the areas of specialism, the firm's capabilities and business plan.

Position Overview

We have an opening for a first rate Employment lawyer. Experience, which should include a mix of contentious, advisory and transactional work, gained within a top tier firm is preferred. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will have 3-4 years post qualification experience (or equivalent experience).

About Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Recent Representative Experience

• Advising a global consumer products conglomerate on the potential restructuring at one of the company's heavily unionised manufacturing sites. Our work has involved planning for engaging in consultation with the GMB and Unite unions, advising on appropriate pools for selection, selection criteria and the redundancy terms that might be offered to affected employees.
• Acting for a global pharmaceutical business on its defence of proceedings brought to enforce threatened injunctions to enforce post-termination restrictions contained in both an individual's employment contract and a separate shareholder agreement. This included acting for the client in both High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings.
• Advising a global transportation company on proposed EU legislation to create a presumption of employment in favour of those working in platform businesses, and a range of other rights for platform workers.
• Acting for a global bank in defending multiple claims of race discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and whistleblowing detriment.
• Advising a leading engineering institution in respect of multiple investigations into potential misconduct and wrongdoing at board level. This included conducting interviews, gathering evidence, reaching findings and advising the institution on next steps.
• Advising Shaftesbury plc, which owns some of the most iconic areas of London, on its merger with another listed real estate business. Our work involved advising on the departure of three executive directors and on the structuring of the retention terms to be offered to key employees to incentivise them through the merger process.

What We Offer

In return, Hogan Lovells offers excellent training and development, a superb working environment together with a competitive salary and benefits package.

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