# Senior Associate, Employment, Sydney

**Company**: Clifford Chance
**Location**: Sydney, NSW
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking an outstanding Senior Associate to join our growing Employment group in Sydney. This role presents an unparalleled opportunity to be part of a team with significant growth potential and strong links across our regional and global Employment practice, working on complex, cutting-edge legal challenges on a national and global scale for our clients.

You will be expected to advise on all employment issues including:

- Employment litigation, mediation and dispute resolution

- Employment contracts and policies

- Appointment and severance of senior executives

- Outsourcing of services

- Discrimination and equal opportunities

- New and proposed employment legislation

- Downsizing and dismissals

- Protecting confidentiality and goodwill

- Employment aspects of M&A transactions

- Employee/Regulatory investigations

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Work as part of a team to deliver commercial and practical legal solutions to our clients.

- Draft legal documents clearly and concisely.

- Create solutions using your legal knowledge, applying effective research techniques.

- Challenge and test advice against legal compliance and risks.

- Be proactive to pursue and expand legal knowledge to ensure legal knowledge and technical expertise up to date.

- Utilise client focus initiatives in terms of driving understanding and monitoring service levels of their individual client needs.

- Engage with knowledge resources effectively and collaborate in knowledge initiatives for the Firm.

- Contribute to practice growth and business development.

- Manage matters with strong commercial discipline - including client and team communication, timely timesheet submission, and adhering to matter opening and conflicts clearance processes.

- Adopt best delivery tools including innovative technologies, Legal Support Centre, Resource Management, Legal Project Managers, Matter Balance Reports.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- You should be 4+ PQE.

- Australian qualification preferred. Candidates with England & Wales or other Commonwealth qualifications will be considered.

- You will have gained strong experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters from a top tier practice.

- You will be a self-starter with an aptitude for and experience in client engagement and development and interest in being part of a growing practice.

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## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- litigation
- dispute resolution
- contract drafting
- client management

### Nice to have
- Australian law
- English law
- Commonwealth law

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