Employment and Human Resource - Working With You Our team prides itself on offering commercial solutions to an organisation s employment and HR issues. We never lose sight of what good employment law and HR support to a business is all about attracting, motivating and retaining the best people. We work with our employer clients to achieve these objectives. When tough decisions need to be made we provide the commercial support that delivers clients. Our offering is genuinely holistic with the ability to seamlessly handle all aspects of the right solutions. We work closely with our a business employment and human resource clients to understand their business and develop an effective HR strategy that really related needs and requirements. We also offer specialist employment advocates providing a adds value. full employment tribunal support service. With a team comprising not only experienced employment lawyers but also in-house We offer true national coverage for the larger employers and a friendly local service to the specialist HR consultants, we are leading the pack with a range of employment law and HR SME market. related services that we offer our employer Kevin Jones, Partner & Head of Employment T: 0845 209 1140 E: kevin.jones@clarkewillmott.com Kevin advises on all aspects of employment law, including terms and conditions of employment, Sharon Latham, Partner T: 0845 209 1332 E: Sharon.latham@clarkewillmott.com Sharon has 17 years experience advising both employers and senior employees at the sharp end, from both reorganisation and redundancies, and unfair and wrongful dismissal claims. He has also handled a large number of complicated multi-party transfer of undertakings (TUPE) cases. In addition, he regularly advises companies on appropriate severance/compromise packages for departing senior executives. a legal and strategic perspective. She specialises in the provision of HR/legal support to a range of businesses (whether healthy or distressed) including dismissal/grievance situations, advice relating to the sale and purchase of businesses, reorganisations, the impact of TUPE and redundancies. As an experienced advocate, Kevin appears at Employment Tribunals. Kevin is a regular speaker on employment law issues at seminars and workshops. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association. Kevin has been recognised as an employment law expert by the Chambers legal directory She is a regular speaker and provides in-house training. She has also written and edited various legal publications (including Croners and HR Xpert) and writes regularly for the wider HR team. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and her skills are recognised in Chambers and Legal 500.
Kate Gardner, Partner T: 0845 209 1420 E: kate.gardner@clarkewillmott.com Kate advises on all aspects of employment law but takes a particular interest in discrimination as well as advising companies and senior executives on exit strategies and severance arrangements. Kate has particular expertise in advising educational establishments and agricultural and farming businesses, and is an experienced advocate in the Employment Tribunal. Lindsey Bell, Partner T: 0845 209 1863 E: lindsey.bell@clarkewillmott.com Lindsey specialises in both contentious and non contentious matters for Plcs, SMEs and the public sector. Her experience includes providing complicated TUPE advice (including outsourcing and advising in relation to companies being bought out of administration), advising on: executive terminations and drafting of severance agreements, drafting contractual documentation, defending unfair dismissal claims, redundancies, the enforceability of restrictive covenants and defending discrimination claims. Lindsey has specialist experience in the law relating to recruitment agencies including advising on the status of temporary workers. Lindsey is an expert speaker. She is also a CEDR accredited mediator and is a recognised expert in the Chambers and Legal 500 directories. Marc Long, Partner T: 0845 209 1581 E: marc.long@clarkewillmott.com Marc s work encompasses all aspects of employment law, providing support to corporate colleagues and advising HR on day-to-day issues. Marc was called to the Bar in 1995 and has gained invaluable advocacy experience in both Courts and Tribunals. Marc regularly trains on employment law and has run events for both the Chartered Institute of Housing and ACAS. He represents a number of social housing providers and has particular experience of outsourcing schemes involving TUPE. Marc is one of the few employment lawyers to have advised employers handling strike action and as a result he has gained a unique experience of Trade Unions. Emma Hamnett, Senior Associate T: 0845 209 1878 E: emma.hamnett@clarkewillmott.com Emma trained in the City and has over 10 years experience as an employment lawyer. Emma works closely with clients to provide commercial and pragmatic legal advice in relation to a wide range of legal issues. Emma s practice encompasses the entire spectrum of employment work, including advising on complex and high value employment litigation; all aspects of Employment Tribunal claims, executive terminations, contractual disputes, restructures and redundancy exercises, restrictive covenants, protecting confidential information and complex employee relations issues. Emma has significant experience of advising clients within the media, financial and telecommunications sectors. Paula Squire, Associate T: 0845 209 1200 E: paula.squire@clarkewillmott.com Paula advises on both contentious and non-contentious issues for a wide range of clients. She also provides inhouse training sessions for employers, regularly advising on complex issues of enforceability of post termination restrictions, Employment Tribunal actions and disciplinary action. Paula provides corporate and commercial property support on TUPE issues, business sale agreements and executive negotiations and regularly deals with individual/claimant and executive employment issues.
Tim Copplestone, Solicitor T: 0845 209 1472 E: tim.copplestone@clarkewillmott.com Tim is an employment lawyer within the firm s commercial and sport divisions. He advises a wide range of employers, professional clubs and senior employees on immigration and contractual matters (including bonus structures and tailoring restrictive covenants), Employment Tribunal litigation, and employment issues arising in corporate transactions. Tim advises on the UK Border Agency points based system and visa issues and has advocacy experience acting at Employment Tribunal hearings. Zena Westerman, Solicitor T: 0845 209 1580 E: zena.westerman@clarkewillmott.com Zena Westerman is a solicitor in the Employment team. She advises both employers and senior employees on a range of employment law including dismissals, contracts of employment, settlement agreements, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, redundancies, tribunal claims and HR issues. Sarah Driscoll, Solicitor T: 0845 209 1834 E: sarah.driscoll@clarkewillmott.com Sarah advises on all aspects of employment law and acts for both employers and individuals. For employers Sarah s work includes preparation and audit of employment contracts, policies and procedures. She advises on projects such as changing employee terms and conditions of employment, restructures, redundancy and TUPE. Sarah also advises on all elements of the employment relationship; to protect employers against the risk of claims and offering strategic advice and support should a dispute arise. Sarah regularly supports Respondent clients through Tribunal litigation; defending complex claims including discrimination and whistleblowing. For individuals, Sarah is experienced at negotiating high value severance packages. Mark Gray, Head of Employee Relations Unit T: 0845 209 1148 E: mark.gray@clarkewillmott.com Mark is Head of the Employee Relations Unit within Clarke Willmott s national Employment and HR team. He has over 16 years experience comprising of litigation, management and employment law advisory work. His main specialisms are discrimination issues and settlement agreements but he has worked across and advised in relation to the full spectrum of employment law. Mark regularly gives talks and lectures on employment law and has appeared on the BBC and in The Times and The Guardian publications. Before joining Clarke Willmott, Mark worked at national firm, Thompsons Solicitors as their Head of National Compromise Agreement Unit and Advice Line teams. Bex Sinclair, Head of HR Consultancy Unit T: 0845 209 1831 E: bex.sinclair@clarkewillmott.com Bex is the Head of our HR Consultancy Unit which is part of the Employment Team. She advises on all aspects of Human Resources and particularly enjoys translating employment law into everyday workplace practicalities for businesses and making it all work in reality. Bex has a variety of experience having been Head of HR for a regional law firm for many years and also advised various other businesses on HR matters during this time. Prior to this she worked for large international hospitality organisations covering all aspects of HR. Bex has a degree in Hospitality Management, is an Affiliate member of the CIPD and a qualified psychometric and ability tester. She also actively involved in the Business Management Committee of the school where she is currently a Governor.
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