Employment Solicitor (2-3+yr PQE), Leeds

Job Introduction

The Leeds Employment team acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong and growing reputation and is recognised as Band/Tier 1 in both the latest Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK rankings.

The team has a strong reputation in the Leeds market, acting for a stable of significant financial services clients and household name corporates as well as being a market leader in the public and independent health sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake a busy and varied workload of employment matters advising all types of employers, with an emphasis on our financial services sector clients.
• Work on complex discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract litigation (Employment Tribunal and High Court) under appropriate supervision.
• Assist on non-contentious projects including restructures (redundancy and TUPE) in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions.
• General employment advisory work by telephone and email.
• Take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and paralegals.
• Participate in and initiate marketing, networking and other business development activities to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients, including assisting with client seminars and delivering training.
• Contribute to non fee-earning activity as appropriate e.g. knowledge sharing, internal training.

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Solicitor - ideally 2-3yr+ PQE.
• Experience of advising clients in the financial services sector and multi-national commercial clients.
• Experience of working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters.
• Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients.
• Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships with clients and influence at all levels.
• Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach.

About the Company

About DAC Beachcroft

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!