French Qualified Employment Counsel – In House

We’re looking for a senior French qualified Employment lawyer to support our client, a global management consulting firm, to support them for 3 months.

You’ll be sitting within the global Employment team supporting the company’s French speaking offices to support them on various French related employment matters.

Your role will include:

• Providing employment legal support across French speaking offices.
• Advising on a full range of employment issues including hiring, termination, mobility and immigration, disputes, investigations, regulatory issues, global and local forms and approaches, and advisory support for specific employee issues and counselling.
• Coordinating closely with the HR function to ensure a globally consistent approach to policies and decision-making is applied within France.
• Taking a hands-on approach, proactively driving solutions in a pragmatic way with creativity and independence.
• Navigating and managing complex organisational structures, bridging local and global perspectives and aligning diverse stakeholders.

You will:

• be French qualified with fluent French language skills
• have at least 7 years’ experience working within Employment law
• have experience working with HR stakeholders and senior-level audiences.

This assignment will be full time, although we may be able to consider 4 days per week. It is due to start as soon as possible, and some presence in the London office would be great if possible.

If you’re a French qualified Employment lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD:

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.