Professional Support Lawyer - Employment
12 days ago
Reading
Our Employment Team is recognised for its practical, commercially-focused support for clients across a range of sectors. We are looking for a talented individual to join our team in a dual Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) and Training role. This is an excellent opportunity to blend technical legal expertise with business development and client engagement. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining and advancing our team’s knowledge base, ensuring our clients and colleagues benefit from cutting-edge advice and training in employment law. If you have a passion for delivering high-quality legal services, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you. This is a part-time role, which we envisage as three days per week. Work type Professional Support: • Manage and maintain Employment Team Knowledge Library and Precedents., • Stay up to date with legal developments and best practices, ensuring the team’s knowledge library and documents are current and comprehensive., • Regularly review the need for new or updated documents., • Identify gaps in the team’s precedents, propose new ones as needed, and take the lead in creating them., • Monitor legal developments in employment law and update and train the team regularly., • Co-ordinate internal team training and organise training sessions with external providers and highlight practice points and knowledge to ensure consistency of advice., • Conduct legal research as required. Training: • Co-ordinate client training, devise training courses and produce training materials for bespoke client training including notes for presenters on employment law matters., • Present training for clients and targets and devise and conduct public training courses as required., • In conjunction with the Partners, develop sales strategy for training products for the Employment Team., • Actively identify opportunities to sell training products and proactively anticipate and devise appropriate new training courses based on new legislation/ opportunities., • In conjunction with the Partners, co-ordinate the webinar program and prepare and host webinars/ podcasts and materials, including presenting webinars and in person events on employment law issues., • Prepare and co-ordinate online newsletters for the Employment Team and other publications including PR opportunities., • Continue to develop relationships and run webinars and events with accountants and other referrers., • Prepare quarterly update as required for clients and prospects on employment law., • Horizon scan and update team on matters relevant to sectors in which clients operate. Experience/ Attributes required • Ability to work unsupervised., • Supports strategic direction of the firm., • Excellent business development and marketing skills., • Excellent attention to detail., • Confident and excellent presentation skills., • Ability to be proactive, dynamic and engaging and develop personal and team profile and expertise., • Ability to explain complex matters clearly and credibly to external stakeholders., • Be able to research and apply knowledge to work in progress., • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Responsibilities & tasks • To maintain and develop business relationships with clients, • To promote the team’s services and identify opportunities to sell these and training products, • To keep up to date with current literature, publications and circulars and bring to the attention of other members of your team relevant news and developments., • Ensure file management, and administration are kept up to date, • Keep up to date price list for quotes and policies and training, • Drive regular LinkedIn activity, inspiring and supporting others to share content and engage, • Seek to broaden network and client base, training clients and webinar attendees, • Encourage and support team to engage with BD strategy and provide suggestions on networking events, internal and external. Work with marketing to co-ordinate support and meet team development needs., • Assist with updating website copy when required., • To work effectively on your own and in a team, • To work in excess of normal working hours where it proves necessary, in the interests of the Firm or those of our clients. Benefits • 25 days holiday, • Pension scheme, • Life Assurance 5 x final salary, • Private medical insurance, • Flexible Hybrid working, • An additional days holiday for your birthday, • A weekly wellbeing hour, • 8 hour per annum charity work, • Cycle to work scheme, • Bring your dog to work, • Social committee events, • Season ticket travel loan, • Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday Team structure • 4 x Partners, • 1 x Head of Immigration, • 1 x Senior Associate Solicitors, • 2 x Associate Solicitor, • 2 x Solicitor, • 1 x Chartered legal executive, • 2 x Paralegals, • 4 x Secretaries