Senior Employment Solicitor

🕒 August 4

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Harper James

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Construction • Legal

Harper James is a national commercial law firm designed to provide expert legal advice to ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses in the UK. The firm offers a wide range of legal services, including banking and finance law, business disputes, immigration law, commercial law, corporate law, data protection, employment law, intellectual property, and IT law. Harper James differentiates itself by offering flexible and affordable legal solutions, catering specifically to start-ups, medium, and large businesses. Their innovative subscription service model offers businesses access to high-quality legal advice at a controlled cost, making it easier for companies to manage their legal needs efficiently.

📋 Description

• Handle complex contentious employment work • Advise businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors • Provide day-to-day employment law support to SMEs and larger companies • Advise on business restructures and redundancies, including collective redundancies • Oversee discrimination and whistle-blowing cases • Advise on TUPE transfers, including corporate support • Draft consultancy agreements and advise on employment status, including IR35 • Draft and advise on director service agreements and contracts of employment • Manage disciplinary and grievance processes • Handle senior executive severances • Build strong client relationships and deliver practical, commercially focused advice • Collaborate with senior lawyers to deliver exceptional client service • Use technology and AI tools to improve efficiency and productivity

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years PQE as an employment lawyer • Particular interest and experience in contentious employment work • General employment law experience supporting SMEs and larger companies • Experience with business restructures and redundancies, including collective redundancies • Experience overseeing discrimination and whistle-blowing cases • Experience advising on TUPE transfers, including corporate support • Knowledge of IR35 and experience drafting consultancy agreements and advising on employment status • Experience drafting and advising on director service agreements and contracts of employment • Experience managing disciplinary and grievance processes • Experience handling senior executive severances • Commercially minded with the ability to build strong relationships and deliver practical advice • Tech-savvy and self-starting • Ability to adapt to new systems and technologies • Interest in using AI tools to improve efficiency and productivity • Solid working knowledge of Microsoft 365 products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook • Ability to navigate SharePoint confidently to manage and collaborate on work • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, modern and technology-enabled environment • Keen eye for detail when drafting documents • No agencies

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • 33 days holiday, including public holidays • Option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days per year • Private healthcare • Death in service benefit • Access to our electric car scheme • Flexible working as part of a fully remote but collaborative team

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