Employment Department Senior Associate 6-9 Years PQE

The Firm

Payne Hicks Beach is a 44 partner firm of solicitors based in offices at 10 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn. In total the firm comprises approximately 220 staff. The firm provides specialist legal services to private and commercial clients. We are best known for our family and private client work and are widely regarded as one of the very best of the small number of firms in the UK who provide these specialist services at the highest level. We also have an excellent reputation in many other areas of law (rated in both Chambers and Legal 500).

Our offices are located in one of the finest squares in London, a building which the firm has occupied since 1770.

More information about the departments and the work of the firm may be found on our website, the address of which is www.phb.co.uk

The Team

The Employment Law Department currently consists of 3 Partners, 1 Legal Director, 1 Senior Associate, 5 Associates, 1 Legal Assistant as well as other support staff.

The Role

The role will be focused on advising on a wide range of employment issues, and undertaking a variety of contentious and non-contentious work including:

• Acting as a lead advisor on complex contentious and non-contentious matters, bridging the gap between associates and partners
• Draft executive contracts, company policies, and providing strategic advice on reorganisations, redundancies, and corporate transactions.
• Manage high-value tribunal litigation,
• Advise senior executives or corporate clients on strategic HR issues,
• Delegate to, mentor and supervise junior associates and trainees to ensure high-quality output
• M&A transactional work, due diligence and corporate support;
• Tribunal / Court work

The Individual

• Have 6-9 years’ PQE in employment law.
• Have a small client following
• Possess both contentious and non-contentious experience and ideally will have acted for both employers and senior employees.
• Have strong academics
• Possess high quality training and experience
• Actively contribute to the growth of the firm by identifying new opportunities and networking
• Will be ambitious, technically strong, hard working, and a good team player.
• Will be confident and sociable as well as discrete when dealing directly with clients.

Personal skills

• Self motivated
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Ability to be proactive and reactive in addressing clients’ affairs and requirements
• Ability to help build upon the firm’s existing business
• Ability to get on well with the clients who cover a broad spectrum
• Achieve time targets and billing requirements
• Ability to keep abreast with changes in legislation and market developments
• A practical working knowledge of IT
• Flexibility, dedication and ambition are essential attributes.