# Junior Associate

**Company**: Linklaters
**Location**: Milan
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

Linklaters' employment and incentives practice is expanding and looking for a motivated new graduate or experienced trainee to join its Milan-based team as a Junior Associate in the Employment team.

The team advises international and Italian clients on all aspects of employment, pension, and labour law, with a focus on top managers' employment contracts and terminations, retention arrangements, remuneration structures, works councils and unions' relations, collective redundancy procedures, as well as any transaction-related employment law. The team also deals with contentious work, especially high-value executives and managing directors' termination cases.

The ideal candidate should have a passion and desire to learn, be enterprising, flexible, available, accurate, and able to work in a team. The successful candidate is required to have graduated from an Italian University with high grades and a proficiency level in English.

**Key Requirements:**

- Excellent academic credentials from an Italian University

- Proficiency level in English

- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills

- Knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

- Attitude to use and develop legal tech tools and innovation mindset

- Previous Intern experiences in a law firm would be a plus

**Main Activities:**

- Legal research

- Drafting and reviewing documents

- Managing processes and communications flow

- Exposure to clients, advisors, and counterparties

- Fast growth path and constant increase of skills and responsibilities

**What We Offer:**

- Ongoing departmental support on legal training, in preparation for the Bar exam

- Continuous learning opportunities throughout a global academy committed to maximising your potential

- Workshops on business and soft skills to broaden and deepen your professional competencies

- Legal technology tools to provide excellence and efficiency

- Innovative online due diligence platform and matter management support

- Possibility to work remotely to embrace work-life balance

- Comprehensive insurance package: travel, professional, accident, and health coverage

- Tax advice on annual revenue and Bar fees reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- MS Office
- English
- legal tech tools
- organisational skills
- communication skills
- Italian

### Nice to have
- Italian university degree
- previous internship in a law firm

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