Join us as a Litigator, Employment Lawyer
- Hone your existing litigation expertise and take on a role with great career development potential and the chance to make a real difference for our business
- You’ll be managing employment tribunal cases associated with customers in a diverse portfolio of business clients and industry sectors
- As a key member of our team, you’ll enjoy extensive collaboration and can expect great visibility for you and your work
As a Litigator, Employment Lawyer, you’ll use your expertise to prepare cases, submissions, productions, statements and witnesses before the employment tribunal hearings. You’ll be negotiating with external bodies and other representatives for each case, while working closely with other colleagues in the department to make sure that wider issues from cases are handled by the relevant colleagues.
Day-to-day, you’ll also be:
- Researching and preparing ET3 forms and making sure that responses are submitted on time
- Instructing and liaising with the counsel in order to deliver cost effectiveness
- Representing the client in hearings
- Preparing, lodging and presenting appeals
To join us in this role, you’ll need knowledge of legal issues surrounding employment law and litigation. We’re also looking for someone with strong advocacy skills with the ability to effectively persuade, influence and represent in courts and tribunals.
Along with this, you’ll need:
- A legal qualification and current practising certificate issued by an appropriate Legal Regulator, such as Solicitors' Regulation Authority, Law Society of Scotland or otherwise
- Extensive knowledge of employment law and tribunal practice
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of decision making and problem solving in a risk assessment environment
- Good organisational and planning skills
- A high degree of organisational and business awareness
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
07/07/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Legal qualification and current practising certificate from an appropriate regulator (eg Solicitors' Regulation Authority, Law Society of Scotland)
- Extensive knowledge of employment law and tribunal practice
- Strong advocacy skills with ability to persuade, influence and represent in courts and tribunals
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of decision making and problem solving in a risk assessment environment
- Good organisational and planning skills
- High degree of organisational and business awareness
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
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