Solicitor or Senior Solicitor

7 months ago

Mount Victoria, New Zealand Buddle Findlay Full time

**Why us**

A career with us gives you the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients within internationally recognised teams and alongside some of New Zealand's leading legal talent to shape the future of business in New Zealand. This role offers you the chance to work across the firm's largest and most high-profile employment matters, a competitive remuneration package with top-market benefits, and exceptional ongoing professional development that is second to none in New Zealand.

**The opportunity**

We have an opportunity for an employment lawyer with between two and five years PQE in employment law to join our well-regarded employment team in Wellington.

In this role, you will work with leaders in their field, Hamish Kynaston and Peter Chemis, on a variety of interesting and challenging matters across the full range of employment law issues including complex disputes, appearances, advising on restructures and redundancies, dismissals, personal grievances, collective agreements, and everything in between. You will be able to deal directly with the firm's largest clients in the tech, central government, health, education, sport, banking, and energy sectors.

This is the ideal role you if you are looking to join a top-tier law firm and increase the scope and scale of your work, or if you are currently in-house and looking for a change to a team that has a consistent flow of work. The team is supportive, and the leadership work with you to ensure you are successful.

**What matters to us**

We value people who bring a different perspective, who are passionate, curious, and innovative. To be successful in this role, you would ideally:

- Have two to five years' PQE with some of your experience gained in employment law. If you have civil litigation experience and are keen to specialise in employment law, we would still like to hear from you
- Enjoy working collaboratively within the team, across the firm and with clients
- Be self-motivated, enthusiastic, innovative, and keen on developing yourself through continuous learning Have strong written and verbal communication skills and can tailor your communication to a wide variety of audiences and clients

**Apply**

All enquiries will be treated with the strictest of confidence.

We look forward to you joining our team and being part of our success.

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