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Overview
Employment law advice needs to be concise, timely and, of course, practical.
We have wide expertise in the media and entertainment sectors but are equally at home with clients from other industries, including advertising, construction, finance, charities, professional services, local authorities, and SMEs. We also regularly advise senior executives, including CEOs and partners.
Our clients are extremely busy people. Our approach is to have a deep understanding of their businesses and the environment where they work and to be their trusted advisers. Through this approach, and because of the level of our advice, we provide a first-rate, partner-led service with practical and pragmatic advice.
Expertise
Our areas of expertise include the following:
- Contracts of employment and service agreements
- Consultancy/freelancer agreements
- Settlement/termination agreements
- Employment Tribunal proceedings
- High Court proceedings
- Restrictive covenants and team moves
- Bonus/remuneration disputes
- Unfair dismissal
- Discrimination, bullying and harassment
- Whistleblowing
- TUPE and outsourcing
- Employment status/IR35
- Redundancy, restructures and insolvency
- Discipline, performance management and grievances
- Workplace investigations
- Family friendly rights and pregnancy
- Sickness and incapacity
- Subject access requests, data protection and privacy notices
- HR advice
- Corporate due diligence
- Trade union
- Partnerships and LLPs
- Employee handbooks and policies
KEY CONTACT
KEY CONTACTS
Our lawyers pride themselves on delivering high-quality pragmatic advice that is always ‘off the fence’.
Victoria Willson
Partner
Susan Thompson
Partner
Victoria Willson
Partner
Every lawyer I have worked with has been friendly, approachable and willing to listen.
They're extremely proactive - they provide great communication, thorough research and immediate responses.
They are experts in their field, provide very focused and commercial advice and are responsive to tight deadlines.
Pragmatic sensible advice at all times. Susan Thompson is excellent in her response rate, pragmatic advice, and keen to pass on knowledge.
Approachable, sensible, astute and knowledgeable.
Victoria "just has an extremely strong talent in client relations as well as being a good lawyer."
