Senior Associate - Employment - 5-8 PQE (Employer Advisory)

A leading, top ranked London firm is seeking a Senior Associate to join its highly regarded Employment team. This is an opportunity to work within one of the largest and most established Employment practices in the UK, advising a diverse client base on complex, high quality matters across the full spectrum of Employment law.

The Role

You will play a key role within a collaborative and high performing team, advising clients ranging from multinational organisations to high growth businesses.

Your work will span a broad mix of advisory, contentious and transactional matters, including:

• Day to day advisory work including disciplinaries, grievances, contracts and policies
• Employment Tribunal litigation, including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing claims
• High Court litigation, including restrictive covenants, team moves and injunctions
• Support on corporate transactions, including M&A, restructures and TUPE
• Advisory work on complex workforce issues, including atypical working and global mobility
• Involvement in international and cross border employment matters

You will also take increasing responsibility for managing client relationships, supervising junior lawyers and contributing to business development initiatives.

The Team

The Employment team is consistently recognised as a market leader, known for both the quality and breadth of its work.

Key strengths include:

• A full service Employment offering across advisory, disputes and transactional support
• A strong international platform with access to global work
• A collaborative culture with clear progression and development frameworks
• A track record of handling complex, high value and often precedent setting matters

• The Ideal Candidate

  
  

  • 5-8 PQE with strong experience in Employment law
  • Deep technical knowledge across advisory and contentious matters
  • Excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills
  • Comfortable working autonomously and managing client relationships
  • Experience supervising junior lawyers is beneficial
  • A proactive, commercial and solutions focused mindset
  • Demonstrated interest in business development and client growth
  • A collaborative approach with a genuine interest in team 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.