​LC Legal is excited to be partnering with a highly regarded UK law firm who enjoys consistent recognition in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, with multiple top-tier practice rankings and a significant number of individually ranked lawyers.

The firm is widely seen as a commercially successful, well-managed business with a clear strategic focus and sustained growth. Its culture is collaborative, inclusive, and pragmatic, providing a supportive environment that values work-life balance, long-term career development, and the delivery of exceptional client service.

Their market-leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team, advising across a broad range of sectors including local and central government, health and care, insurance and financial services, commercial, higher education, and housing, is seeking to appoint an experienced Employment Solicitor in Leeds.

With continued growth, the team can offer strong career progression, hybrid working and a competitive remuneration and benefits package.

The role

• Manage your own varied caseload spanning both contentious and non-contentious employment matters

• Advise clients on improving employment practices, managing workforce issues, and defending employment claims while mitigating risk

• Build strong relationships externally with clients and internally across multidisciplinary teams, including regulatory and commercial colleagues

• Undertake a broad mix of work including advisory, transactional, and contentious matters

• Work on novel and complex employment law issues across diverse and evolving markets

• Provide supervisory and mentoring support to junior colleagues

• Contribute to training delivery and client relationship management

About you

• 4+ years’ PQE with broad employment law experience, ideally across relevant sectors

• Experience advising on restructures and redundancy processes

• Strong background in employee relations matters, including settlement negotiations

• Solid litigation experience, with the ability to manage complex, high-profile cases as part of a team

• TUPE expertise, including drafting and negotiating warranties/indemnities and advising on workforce aspects of transactions, including consultation processes

• Experience supporting transactional due diligence, often within corporate or commercial deals alongside multidisciplinary teams

• Ability to draft and review employment policies

• A collaborative approach, with an interest in mentoring and team development

• Commercially minded, with an enthusiasm for client relationship building

LC Legal is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

At LCL we try to respond to all applications personally, however, due to the high volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard back from us within 72 hours, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.