NQ Employment Solicitor Legal team

NQ Employment Solicitor Northampton | £38,000 – £45,000

Legal 500 recognised employment work with genuine work-life balance.

What if you could join a firm that offers high-quality employment work without the bureaucracy and pressure often found in larger national practices? This long-established East Midlands law firm has built an outstanding reputation across the region, combining decades of heritage with a modern and people-focused culture.

Recognised by The Legal 500 across multiple practice areas, the firm’s Employment team is particularly well regarded for its commercially minded advice and strong client relationships. With a diverse client base ranging from SMEs to larger regional businesses, the team handles a broad mix of contentious and non-contentious matters, giving lawyers the opportunity to develop genuinely rounded experience.

Known for its collaborative environment and supportive leadership, this is a firm where career progression and work-life balance are seen as complementary rather than competing priorities.

• Join a respected and well-established Employment team handling a broad range of quality work.
• Advise both employers and employees across contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
• Manage tribunal matters from initial instruction through to resolution.
• Provide strategic HR and employment law advice to a varied commercial client base.
• Work on settlement agreements, disciplinaries, grievances, discrimination claims, restructures and TUPE matters.
• Looking for a role with genuine variety and autonomy as you qualify? This opportunity offers both.
• Build long‑term client relationships while developing your own professional profile within the region.
• Work closely with experienced colleagues in a collaborative and supportive team environment.

• Newly Qualified Solicitor or soon‑to‑qualify trainee with Employment Law experience during training.
• Comfortable managing matters with appropriate supervision and support.
• Strong communication skills and a commercial, pragmatic approach.
• Interested in both contentious and advisory employment work.
• Want to join a firm where your contribution is recognised and progression feels achievable rather than promised?
• Keen to be part of a friendly and ambitious team with a strong regional reputation.

• Legal 500 recognised team.
• Genuine emphasis on work-life balance and employee wellbeing.
• Life assurance.
• Holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Company pension scheme.
• Paid volunteer leave.

Could this be the move that gives you the quality of work you want alongside the balance you’ve been missing?

For a confidential discussion, contact Toby Ryan at QED Legal Recruitment.