Associate (Employment & Pensions)

Clyde & Co

Glasgow, Hybrid

Department: Employment & Pensions
Location: Glasgow (hybrid) 
Role: Associate

The Team

Due to expansion, the Scottish Employment department are seeking an experienced Associate to join their team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy and successful Employment team. We are friendly and approachable, and we provide a supportive environment to ensure that every team member achieves their full potential.  The firm offers many opportunities for our people to develop their careers including our Global Associate Programme under which Associates can spend a week working at another of our many offices around the world.

We provide market-leading support to a wide variety of clients including employers in the public sector, education, transport, construction, manufacturing, food and drink, aviation, and the arts as well as senior executives.  We advise on all aspects of employment law including: discrimination, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, redundancy, disciplinary and grievance issues, large scale restructuring projects and TUPE.  We have a stellar reputation for providing commercial, pragmatic and accessible advice.  Our team are instructed in litigation in the Employment Tribunal and the civil courts and have represented clients in some of the most high profile and high value litigations in Scotland in recent years.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Associate to join our Glasgow team (and be based in Glasgow, on a hybrid working model).  The successful candidate will manage a caseload of both contentious and non-contentious matters, including Tribunal appearance work, and will support business development activities.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong technical abilities.
• Ability to work autonomously with support from wider team when needed.
• Ability to build strong client relationships and carry out business development activities.
• Ability to lead more junior team members on projects.
• Ability to mentor and support other team members.

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one: We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients: We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference: We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly: We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Benefits

At Clyde & Co we provide a number of additional benefits to our employees which include but are not limited to:

• Annual Wellbeing and fitness allowance
• Reward Gateway
• Transport loan
• Generous pension scheme
• Generous annual leave policy
• Life insurance
• Learning and development programmes

For more information and to apply for this role please click here: Clyde & Co Job Board

Alternatively, you can contact Danielle Darke, Senior Recruitment Advisor via danielle.darke@clydeco.com

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.