Employment Solicitor

As an Employment Solicitor your duties will include:

• Working in an exciting employment law practice in the market-leading firm in the football industry, with a client base covering the significant majority of Premier League football clubs, a large number of English Football League clubs and other key stakeholders in football, both domestically and internationally;
• High-quality, varied and interesting employment work across the sports and media sectors, advising on contentious and non-contentious matters spanning the spectrum of employment law;
• Football transfers and transactional documentation and associated regulatory work;
• Drafting and negotiating service agreements for high-profile senior executives and employees within football and other sports, including managers, coaches, players and sporting directors;
• Advising on employment issues across a number of sports, including the provision of support to other parts of the team including corporate, commercial, regulatory/litigation and immigration;
• Advising federations, leagues, clubs, players, athletes, agents and other stakeholders in employment-related disputes before a variety of dispute resolution forums, including the Employment Tribunal and appellate tribunals and courts, Premier League's Managers' Arbitration Tribunal, Player-Related Dispute Commission proceedings and FA Rule K arbitration;
• Opportunity to develop your skills through a rare opportunity to have day-to-day involvement at the highest level in a sought-after sector, with client-facing work and responsibilities; and
• Helping to grow and shape the firm's employment legal work with the existing team.