Claimant Employment Lawyer

Overview

Are you a brilliant claimant-focused
qualified employment lawyer with a sense of humour, high work standards and fantastic client care skills?

This is a legal job like you have never seen before…

At Rebel Law we stand for something different. Something rebellious in the industry:

• People over profits!

A previous candidate called this a “Unicorn Job”!

We offer a new way of being a lawyer that puts clients first, with job satisfaction, genuine flexibility, and a focus on quality of life for you.

We welcome Solicitors, Chartered Legal Executives, or Barristers - providing you have sufficient expertise and experience practising employment law and handling cases in the Employment Tribunal in England and Wales.

The role involves:

• Running your own cases competently without micromanagement within a supportive environment
• Managing and resolving workplace disputes
• Providing a caring and responsive service to clients with disabilities
• Representing clients in discrimination, redundancy and unfair dismissal matters
• A varied caseload of claimant and respondent contentious matters
• Managing terminations of senior professionals
• Drafting employment contracts, policies and procedures
• Advising small businesses and providing HR support
• Negotiating settlement agreement terms
• Drafting and advising on settlement agreements
• Advising on restrictive covenants and confidentiality terms
• Advocacy

You will have experience in:

• Advising and representing clients in discrimination, redundancy and unfair dismissal matters
• Drafting, negotiating and advising on settlement agreements
• Resolving workplace disputes
• Managing employment tribunal cases
• Catering to a wide range of different types of client
• Contentious claimant work

You will:

• Provide exemplary client service and outstanding quality of work
• Be happy, self-disciplined and organized to work effectively and efficiently from home
• Have a suitable safe workspace at home to use
• Be diligent, honest and meticulous
• Enjoy networking and blogging, building referral relationships and using social media for business development (or be willing to learn)
• Have excellent IT skills and be tech savvy
• Know the difference between a duck-billed platypus and an echidna
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and a go-getting attitude
• Have an ambition to continuously grow and learn

You will also:

• Be a good listener and a demon negotiator
• Be a decent compassionate human being who wants the right wrongs in the world
• Be committed to equality and equity
• Have a genuine passion for helping people
• Care deeply about justice and fairness
• Be resilient, pragmatic and full of common sense
• Have a wicked sense of humour, possibly be a bit sweary, slightly rebellious and very real

Even better if you have an interesting life story or unusual career history - we really love lawyers who don’t fit the crusty old mould of how people think we should be.

If this sounds interesting, and you are a quirky fabulous person who sets very high standards for yourself and wants more autonomy, time to yourself and flexibility than you’ve ever had working for a law firm before, then let’s have a chat and see if we gel.

• The basic salary range is £40K to £60K depending on experience, plus employer pension contribution
• You can earn commission on top
• If you are more experienced and established in your career, come with a following or solid referral network and a billing history and have a realistic business plan for generating income, then we can consider a higher salary range than that stated
• Benefits include a healthcare package with 24/7 online private GP, online Physio service, online fitness classes, wellness support, up to 8 sessions of therapy/counselling, eye screening, legal and debt helpline, free will writing, life and career coaching, and discounted gym membership, retail and fuel cards. For you and your family.
• Free eye testing and annual flu jab (if you want those)
• You can be based anywhere in the UK that has good reliable Internet coverage