Summary: The role of Legal Associate involves providing high-quality HR and legal advisory services within a client-facing consultancy environment. The successful candidate will leverage their legal expertise and commercial awareness to support clients in navigating complex employment and HR issues. This position requires building trusted relationships with stakeholders and ensuring the delivery of impactful, ethical, and culturally aware advice. The role is based in London and is offered as a fixed-term contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide day to day advisory support and cross-disciplinary advice that is legally sound, culturally aware, and operationally realistic covering the areas of employment, commercial and privacy law.
- Assist clients by providing advice, support and guidance across international locations and broader global employment, HR and employee relations strategy.
- Develop deep, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders understanding not just the “issue,” but the client’s broader context, needs, values, and goals.
- Ensure client service is proactive, responsive, and measurable in its impact. Model ethical, transparent, and human centred leadership in all client work.
- Contribute to the high standard of client delivery, ensuring work is accurate, timely and aligned with the agreed scope of work.
- Assist with developing internal tools, frameworks, and methodologies to support consistent, scalable advisory delivery (e.g. risk matrices, process guides, advisory templates).
- Ensure our advice reflects the evolving regulatory landscape, international employment norms, and best practice in inclusive, fair people management.
- Assist with building bespoke products and packages for complex client needs (e.g. workplace reviews, global employee relation retainer services, performance frameworks, advisory retainers).
Key Skills:
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in an advisory role (employment law, ER, HR strategy, or equivalent).
- Significant experience delivering complex workplace advisory work for varied clients including regulated sectors and international businesses.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and familiarity with international or cross-border workplace legal considerations.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and coaching senior professionals.
- Track record of building client trust and delivering measurable, strategic impact.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Location: London
Type: Full-time, Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Competitive
We are growing and looking for an ambitious, curious, dynamic and technically skilled person to join our team as a Legal Associate , someone who can bring together the technical rigour of legal, HR and employee relations practice with the agility, pace, and commercial awareness required in a client-facing consultancy environment.
Who we are
We are a people intelligence company. We support organisations to build environments where their integrity, inclusion, innovation and purpose thrive, and their people risk is low. We specialise in:
- Investigations
- Culture & Sustainability
- DEEI (diversity, equity, equality & inclusion)
- Training, Coaching & Facilitation
- Resolve Routes (conflict resolution support)
- Connected Communications
- Business Intelligence
- Advisory (legal, HR, employee relations, governance, culture)
- Independent Speak Up Services (employee relations triage services)
We are a first of its kind UK people intelligence company regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will support the delivery of high quality HR and Legal advisory services. Responsibilities include:
- Provide day to day advisory support and cross-disciplinary advice that is legally sound, culturally aware, and operationally realistic covering the areas of employment, commercial and privacy law.
- Assist clients by providing advice, support and guidance across international locations and broader global employment, HR and employee relations strategy.
- Develop deep, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders understanding not just the “issue,” but the client’s broader context, needs, values, and goals.
- Ensure client service is proactive, responsive, and measurable in its impact. Model ethical, transparent, and human centred leadership in all client work.
- Contribute to the high standard of client delivery, ensuring work is accurate, timely and aligned with the agreed scope of work.
- Assist with developing internal tools, frameworks, and methodologies to support consistent, scalable advisory delivery (e.g. risk matrices, process guides, advisory templates).
- Ensure our advice reflects the evolving regulatory landscape, international employment norms, and best practice in inclusive, fair people management.
- Assist with building bespoke products and packages for complex client needs (e.g. workplace reviews, global employee relation retainer services, performance frameworks, advisory retainers).
Experience & Expertise
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in an advisory role (employment law, ER, HR strategy, or equivalent).
• Significant experience delivering complex workplace advisory work for varied clients including regulated sectors and international businesses.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and familiarity with international or cross-border workplace legal considerations.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and coaching senior professionals.
• Track record of building client trust and delivering measurable, strategic impact.
What we offer you
At Howlett Brown, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. We operate as a diverse, supportive and inclusive employer, working to ensure that internal operations model those polices that we aim to educate our clients on. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.
• Hybrid working – Monday and Wednesday mandatory in office days, third day of your choosing and two days working from home.
• Fixed Term Contract, 6-9 months
• Competitive salary
• Start date: February 2026
