Experienced Employment Solicitor - Associate and Senior Associate Level

City Of London, with potential to also consider candidates in Oxford, Manchester, and Leeds.

Hybrid working (2 office days per week)

The Opportunity

A highly regarded, award winning global employment law firm is seeking to hire experienced Associates and Senior Associates as part of continued strategic growth.

The firm combines consistent top tier rankings across the major legal directories with a genuinely open, people first culture. Growth is driven by sustained client demand rather than attrition.

The practice is recognised nationally and internationally for corporate and senior executive advisory work, alongside complex High Court litigation and arbitration matters.

There is flexibility to join different specialist teams depending on your experience, strengths and long term ambitions, including:

• Core Employment Advisory
• Employment Litigation
• Senior Executive and partnership disputes

The Work

This Employment group has been ranked at the top of the market for over three decades, with multiple Partners individually recognised as leaders in their specific field.

The team advises across the full spectrum of Employment law, including:

• Day to day advisory work - disciplinaries, grievances, contracts, policies, flexible working, discrimination and restructures
• Employment Tribunal litigation - unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and equal pay
• High Court litigation - restrictive covenants, team moves and injunctions
• Trade union and collective matters - consultation and industrial action
• Transactional support on M&A, divestments and outsourcings including TUPE
• Global mobility and cross border projects
• Reward and incentives
• Senior executive disputes and negotiated exits
• International coordination of multi jurisdictional projects

The breadth of work offers real technical depth combined with strong commercial exposure and client contact.

About You

You will ideally demonstrate:

• 1 to 8 years PQE within a recognised Employment team
• Strong technical grounding across advisory and contentious matters
• Experience acting primarily for employer clients
• Excellent drafting and analytical skills
• Confidence running matters with appropriate supervision
• Experience supervising junior lawyers where relevant
• A proactive, commercial and collaborative approach
• Interest in marketing and business development

This opportunity would suit an ambitious Employment lawyer seeking high calibre work, international exposure and a clear long term progression pathway within a supportive and collegiate environment.

Package and Benefits

• Excellent salary
• 2x annual bonuses (personal performance & firm performance)
• Sensible and manageable hourly targets
• 25 days holiday with additional days added annually
• Excellent working culture and extensive onboarding

About Lex Exec

Lex Exec is a specialist legal sector recruitment business advising ambitious lawyers and leading law firms across London and key international markets. We focus on long term career strategy, not just lateral moves. Our approach is discreet, commercially informed and relationship led. If you would like a confidential discussion about this opportunity or the wider Employment market, please get in touch.