Managing Associate; PQE - Health & Safety

Overview

Mishcon de Reya's Health & Safety practice is a market-leading team within the firm's White-Collar Crime & Investigations group, led by Kizzy Augustin, who has specialised in this area for over 20 years. We provide specialist advice to corporates, directors, and individuals facing regulatory scrutiny, investigations, and prosecutions by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), local authorities, fire authorities, the Environment Agency and other enforcement bodies.

Our expertise spans workplace fatalities, serious injuries, inquests, regulatory compliance, corporate manslaughter and environmental offences. Our Health & Safety lawyers have extensive experience defending clients in complex and high-profile matters, including fatal accident investigations, multi-agency and cross-border investigations, inquests, and criminal prosecutions. The team takes a holistic approach to health and safety, viewing it not merely as compliance but as a broader issue of operational risk and resilience for our clients.

We advise on proactive statutory compliance strategies, crisis management following workplace incidents, and the defence of enforcement notices and prosecutions. The team works closely with colleagues across the firm, including our employment, corporate, and reputation management specialists, to provide a comprehensive and seamless service to clients. Our lawyers advise on numerous cases involving serious health and safety issues across multiple sectors, with particular strength in:

• 5-7 years' PQE gained at a leading criminal / H&S practice. You should have experience of defending individuals in criminal proceedings, ideally both in criminal and health and safety litigation.

• Strong academic record / legal drafting / knowledge of key health and safety legislation.
• Effective supervision of junior colleagues
• Ability to identify business opportunities and demonstrate commercial awareness
• Excellent team player.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with people at all levels, including board members and C-Suite executives.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Creative legal thinker.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active, self-motivated and takes initiative, particularly in relation to business development and developing sector expertise
• Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1400 people with more than 650 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.