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Head of Employment Law - Senior Solicitor Farnham I well established firm are looking for an experienced Employment Solicitor to lead their Employment Law department as Head of Department. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and developing a team of employment lawyers and providing expert legal advice and support to the firms clients. As Head of Department, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the department's operations, including team management, business development, client management, and budgetary control. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the department delivers high-quality legal services to our clients, and that the team members are motivated, engaged and equipped to perform at their best. Responsibilities: Manage and develop a team of employment lawyers, providing leadership, guidance, and support to help them achieve their goals. Provide expert legal advice and support to clients on all aspects of employment law, including but not limited to, disciplinary and grievance procedures, employment contracts, discrimination, and dismissal. Develop and maintain strong client relationships, identifying new business opportunities and providing excellent customer service. Oversee the department's budgetary control and ensure that financial targets are met. Collaborate with other departments within the firm to deliver an integrated and seamless service to clients. Keep up-to-date with changes in employment law and ensure that team members are informed of any changes that may affect clients. Requirements: Qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 5 years' PQE in Employment Law. Experience in managing and developing a team of lawyers. Strong technical knowledge of employment law and a track record of delivering high-quality legal advice. On offer is a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, generous holiday allowance, healthcare and other benefits. If you have a passion for employment law, a desire to lead and develop a team, and the skills and experience to deliver excellent legal services to clients, I would love to hear from you.
Legal PA to Global Sector Head / Head of London - Corporate for a City based law firm This role is supporting a very busy and focused Global Head who is also the Head of London for Corporate and M&A and supporting another Partner and a newly made up Partner. This role would suit an experienced Legal PA who understands the nature of the work but, also who appreciates how busy the Head is and will be. The Head tends to travel a lot which requires a Legal PA to organise Flights, a busy itinerary and visa's. Duties: Proactively managing and maintaining diary planning and coordination for allocated fee earners, making appointments and co-ordinating internal and external client meetings, identifying and resolving potential challenges and clashes, ensuring arrangements are made for equipment, venue and resources and that fee earners have all necessary paperwork. Travel management, booking transport, hotels, client meetings and producing detailed itineraries. Coordinating business development and client liaison initiatives for fee earners, including updating database information and assisting with marketing initiatives and events (including occasional support at events e.g. registration desk). Proactively dealing with all aspects of claiming expenses, including InterAction entries. Liaising with the firm's clients in a confident and professional manner, building strong working relationships with clients and contacts. Dealing professionally and promptly with client (internal and external) telephone calls and communications, including calls diverted to the team. Creating, uploading and general maintenance of client sites and extranets. Monitoring fee earners' mailboxes when they are out of the office or attending a long meeting, responding to emails as necessary and prioritising correspondence to enable fee earners to focus on urgent matters. Using initiative to route emails to the appropriate individuals for swift response and action and responding to and filing emails in Filesite on behalf of partners and fee earners to reduce volume (where possible). Preparing bills, including resolving queries and dealing with outstanding fees, maintaining accurate billing/contact details, preparation of narratives and drafting first bills with covering correspondence for partner approval. Assisting fee earners by liaising with the billing team, and following up with debt recovery as requested. Proactively ensuring Carpe Diem is updated for all allocated fee earners, particularly for holiday or sickness absence. Informing the Legal PA Co-ordinator if a fee earner is working from home or absent due to holiday or sickness. Providing secretarial assistance to assigned fee-earners, which includes audio typing, copy typing, formatting documents, creating correspondence, pitches and presentations. Delegating complex and lengthy documents to the Document Production Team, ensuring requirements and timescales are clearly set out. Coordinating the opening of new client matters and assisting with Anti-Money Laundering processes, undertaking as much research as possible before passing over to the Partner for approval. Organising client documents (delegating scanning, formatting, photocopying and collating of information where necessary) for client meetings or hearings and carrying out research as required. Management and delegation of client filing and regular updating of client relationship management systems (Interaction), archiving historic files or closed matters. Should this role catch your eye - please apply immediately !