Company description

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 (https://legaldiversityalliance.be/). 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.

More about CMS Belgium

Profile:

You are bilingual in Dutch and in English and fluent in French
You ideally have four to five 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

How to apply:

If you are interested joining the employment law team at CMS (www.cms.law) please send your CV with cover letter by email to Sophie Berg and Camille Vanhelleputte (click on the "Apply" button below)