Senior Lawyer

Job Title: Senior Lawyer

Location: Hollerich, NONE

Employment Type: 

Permanent

Our client is multinational Law firm and looking for a senior lawyer German speaker.

The role will involve providing day-to-day legal advice to HR professional clients and their in-house legal teams. It will also involve litigation and work investigations (for example, supporting our white collar crime team with the HR aspects of regulatory investigations). In addition to the contentious practice there will also be an opportunity to help our clients deliver solutions within the M&A and outsourcing space. The successful candidate will also work closely with corporate colleagues on transactional matters and will be involved in all aspects of the team's workload.

 

The Global Employment & Reward Group are increasingly engaging with clients on strategic projects such as global change management exercises, reward philosophy projects and preparing for the implementation of gender pay gap legislation.

 

Candidates will have a strong academic background and an outgoing personality. Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development. They will also be a team player with excellent communication skills and a desire to be actively involved in business development.

 

As well as having the experience mentioned above, the candidate should be:

 

• Ambitious and enthusiastic about winning new clients.
• Happy to work on creating marketing material, pitches, client meetings, know-how and being involved in business development - this is a growing team and accordingly we would like the candidate to take an active part in that.
• A dynamic team player who can work with different teams and lawyers across the firm and work in an organized, reactive and autonomous way; and
• Keen to work in a growing international firm that is making headlines.
• Completed the Cours Complémentaires de Droit Luxembourgeois and are registered to the bar of Luxembourg.
• At least 6 years’ experience in employment law in Luxembourg.
• Being fluent in French, English and German, Luxembourgish would be an asset.

 

The Opportunity

 

• The very best national and international work.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
• Genuine long-term career prospects supported through our "best in class" training and our Academy personal development programmes.
• Managing employment law cases, in direct contact with clients.
• Advising clients on all matters relating to employment law and social security law, such as recruitment, drafting of employment contracts and amendments, modification of working conditions, secondment, transfer of business, individual or collective dismissal, negotiation and drafting of out-of-court agreements, and more generally HR support.
• Representation and defense of clients' interests before the courts.
• Contributing to the know-how and development of our database, as well as sharing it.
• Writing articles and contributing to conferences.

 

What will we offer you?

 

• An attractive salary package.
• A dynamic and friendly workplace.
• We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development program. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of breed" services.
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.