Junior Associate Employment

Profile:

• You are bilingual in Dutch and in French and fluent in English
• You ideally have one to two years of relevant experience
• You hold a Belgian law degree with enviable academic results
• You are truly interested in the course of trade, have excellent legal reasoning capacities as well as a creative mind, and are prepared to take initiatives
• Accuracy, rigor, communication skills, availability and responsiveness number among your additional qualities
• You are a team-player

Main responsibilities:

• Advise companies and national and international groups in several areas of employment law, focusing on collective and individual employment law
• Cooperate with the various foreign CMS law firms and the different CMS Belgium departments, to experience the multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach of cases
• Manage files from start to finish, act with a satisfying degree of independence, under the supervision of a partner
• Assist to client meetings
• Plead in court

What we offer:

• Dynamic team of 9 people and 2 partners
• Local direction team
• Yearly assessment
• Work-life balance: 2-3 days per week of homeworking
• Entrepreneurial work environment
• Long term commitment to our lawyers
• Collaboration with other departments
• Collaboration on an international level with other CMS countries
• Custom-fit career path and trainings
• International CMS events, sporting events and conferences
• Sport activities
• Wellbeing activities and conferences
• Many internal events
• Possibility of individual language classes (French, English and Dutch)
• Bonus and yearly remuneration evaluation
• Invalidity and death insurance
• Phone subscription and iPhone
• Compulsory bar training and membership expenses coverage

About CMS:

CMS is an international law firm with more than 90 lawyers based in Brussels and Antwerp, providing clients with a full range of legal and tax solutions. CMS is an ambitious and growing international organization.

With more than 5,000 lawyers worldwide, we are present in 47 countries and 84 offices located throughout Europe, the Middle East, South America, Africa and China.

CMS is a founding member of the Legal Diversity and Inclusion Alliance ). Selection for recruitment is irrespective of gender, race or ethnicity, age, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

CMS Belgium has been granted a silver medal by Ecovadis, the world's most trusted business sustainability rating.