Join Pearson Solicitors
Our success depends on our ability to attract, retain and reward the best people and cultivate their talents, so that we can continue to offer our clients the competition-beating services that we are known for.
Joining us means working with talented people who are committed to building effective relationships and achieving outstanding results.
We value diversity and as a firm with an extremely broad client base, we recognise that our clients do too, so we reflect this in our workforce.
Current Vacancies
Interested in Joining the Pearson Team? Here is a list of current roles we are actively recruiting for:
The employment team is looking for a dedicated Employment Solicitor (2 to 8 years PQE) to join our award-winning firm, ranked in The Legal 500 directory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow within our dynamic Employment Department, where we handle a broad spectrum of cases for both employers and employees.
This permanent role offers a competitive salary and an attractive staff benefits package, including flexible and hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide expert advice to both employers and employees on a range of employment issues.
- Manage Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination (sex, race, disability), and more.
- Handle TUPE matters, redundancy, and transfers of undertakings.
- Negotiate and draft settlement agreements for both employers and employees.
- Advise on restrictive covenants, breaches of confidentiality, and other workplace disputes.
- Draft and review employment contracts and staff handbooks.
- Perform legal research and analysis to support case preparation.
- Draft court submissions, correspondence, and other legal documents.
- Engage in negotiations with opposing counsel and parties.
- Collaborate with partners and colleagues to devise strategies for achieving client goals.
- Contribute to business development efforts and assist with firm growth initiatives.
- Mentor and support junior team members.
Requirements:
- 2 to 8 years PQE in Employment Law.
- Proven experience handling employment tribunal claims and complex cases.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and client management skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a supportive team environment.
- A proactive approach to business development and marketing.
Salary & Benefits:
- Competitive salary (commensurate with experience).
- Automatic enrolment in the company’s pension scheme.
- Comprehensive staff benefits, including healthcare, and wellness initiatives.
- Friendly, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
- Flexible working options to promote a healthy work-life balance.
How to apply:
Please send your full CV and current salary to Director and Practice Manager: joanne.ormston@pearsonlegal.co.uk
Staff Benefits
Staff Members at Pearson Solicitors and Financial Advisers can enjoy the following benefits:
- 29 days holiday per annum including Christmas and birthday day off plus all statutory Bank Holidays
- Flexible working
- Enhanced Sick allowance
- Death in service benefit
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme
- Annual discretionary firm bonus scheme
- Birthday day off
- Discounted legal fees for staff and family members
- Medical Benefits
- Free eye tests
- Great staff events
- Annual Senior Staff Dinner
- Great training and development
- A chance to work with our charities
- Christmas shutdown
- Dress down Fridays
- Car parking permit (where applicable)
- Company Mobile telephone (where applicable)
- Payment of professional subscriptions and memberships
- Mental health and wellbeing – Access to a free employee 24/7 helpline facility
How to apply
We have ambitious plans to grow. We are actively looking for high-performing people to join us. So, if you think you would thrive as part of our dynamic team, please call Joanne Ormston on 0161 785 3500 or send us your CV by completing the recruitment form.
What do people say about working at Pearson Solicitors?
I only joined you as a locum for three months, so the fact that I stayed almost five years is a testament to the way Pearson operates as a firm. I felt like a valued member of a team in no time at all! Several lasting friendships have been made. Joanne Graham Family Law Solicitor in Manchester
In the 12 months I have been working with the firm, I can say without reservation that it is the best company I have worked for. Not only did the partners and my colleagues welcome me with open arms following a team move when I started but it is truly rooted in its community and genuinely cares about its people. There are lots of firms who put out statements and comments about their “culture”, “corporate social responsibility” and “work-life balance” but I can say without reservation that the firm lives its value everyday of creating a friendly, professional and caring environment to work in. In turn, its clients feel confident and reassured that they are going to get an excellent service with a personal touch. There is a genuine opportunity to grow and develop as a fee earner here. There is a true balance of autonomy coupled with supervision and genuine open door policy where you need it from experienced and expert partners and management team. Where employees go through a difficult time or fall on ill-health – the firm rallies around them rather than seeing them as a burden or number on a spreadsheet. The sense of camaraderie between colleagues is second to none and that is reflected in the minimal turnover of staff and considerable number of colleagues who have worked here for decades. If you want a work environment without egos and outdated hierarchy, but one team pulling in the same direction and looking out for one another whilst getting the best results for its clients, then Pearson is the place to work. I will always look back fondly at my time with the firm and I have made a number of friends at the firm which will survive them no longer being my colleagues. Ben Williams Employment Law Solicitor in Manchester
I have really enjoyed my time as an employee at Pearson Solicitors. The partners are extremely fair and approachable. The other employees are warm and welcoming, and I felt a part of the Pearson team immediately upon commencing my role. During my time at the firm, I moved to Leeds, but I was allowed lots of flexibility around working from home and I was trusted to manage my cases and my diary my own way, providing my targets were met. When I started at the firm, I was newly qualified, and I lacked in confidence. Since being here I believe that I have grown and developed not only in confidence but also in ability and I feel that Pearson Solicitors have given me the tools and the opportunities to do so. It has been a pleasure being an employee at the firm and I am extremely grateful to the Partners for the opportunities and if it wasn’t but for me going travelling, I would have liked to continue with the firm. Hannah Cox Care Solicitor in Oldham
