Our Employment team is highly regarded by Chambers & Partners for its expertise in handling the full spectrum of employment matters for national and international companies. We have a large team of experts providing a broad range of advisory support and representation to our impressive FTSE 250 client base. 

We're now looking for an experienced Immigration Lawyer to join the team based out of Newcastle, Leeds or Southampton.  You may in addition be an Employment law expert, but that is not essential.

What will you be doing?

You will be providing corporate immigration advice to our clients, both in the UK and overseas, on a variety of business immigration matters.  As well as supervising members of the team as they handle day-to-day immigration matters such as right to work and business visitor visas, managing sponsor license applications and compliance, you will be delivering the more complex immigration advice and support which will include advising on the immigration aspects of corporate transactions, carrying out compliance audits, acting for clients to defend civil penalty notices and warnings, and advising on the full range of global mobility visas.  You may also undertake contentious immigration work and will deliver engaging client training and speak at events on all things immigration. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced immigration lawyer to make a significant impact where you'll be supported by a tight knit, friendly team with a collegiate approach and a firm wide commitment to development.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

You'll need to be a team player whilst also being pro-active in using your initiative and driving matters forward. The ability to build lasting relationships with our clients, excellent communication and inter-personal skills are also key. You'll be part of a growing team so that means plenty of opportunities to develop your business development skills; an important aspect for all of our lawyers. 

To be successful in this role you will need as a minimum:

• At least 7 years of post-qualified experience as an England & Wales Solicitor.
• A strong background of both personal and corporate immigration law.
• Experience managing a full immigration caseload, gained from a large regional or city firm.

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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