Employment Law

Your relationship with your employees is vital to your business’s success. Our employment solicitors can help you manage the legal side of this relationship, leaving your managers with more time to do what they do best.

Employment law issues can become costly, time-consuming and stressful if you don’t handle them quickly. With our help, you can develop the right policies to ensure legal compliance and proactively resolve problems before they grow.

We’re one of the top employment law teams in the country and work with businesses across major industry sectors. Our lawyers are highly experienced in all aspects of employment law so you’ll get comprehensive advice about your HR processes, from recruitment onwards. 

What Employment Law Services Do We Offer?

Our forward-thinking and pragmatic advice will help you reduce the risk, costs, stress and management time involved with staff issues. We can help you:

  • Train managers on common employment law issues
  • Prepare for disciplinary and grievance hearings, appeals, and employment tribunals
  • Take advantage of outsourcing opportunities and navigate the TUPE regulations
  • Comply with the latest employment legislation
  • Transform a specific part of your business and advise on the employment implications
  • Manage equality and diversity requirements
  • Prevent and resolve employment disputes
  • Limit reputational damage
  • Protect confidential information
  • Stop leavers from poaching valuable employees and customers
  • Draft, review, or update contracts and policies
  • Conduct a fair process to change terms of employment
  • Implement or improve disciplinary and grievance processes
  • Bring skilled workers into your business from outside the UK
  • Manage your relationship with trade unions
  • Carry out collective redundancy consultations.

We can advise on single issues or work with you on a long term retainer basis. Our fixed-price IMhrplus service gives you access to a wealth of online resources, regular legal updates, and a dedicated solicitor for advice on day-to-day employment and HR matters.

Who Can We Help?

Our employment solicitors advise businesses of all sizes and have particular experience with organisations specialising in:

  • Financial services
  • Construction
  • Retail
  • Manufacturing
  • Consumer goods
  • Facilities Management
  • Education
  • Telecommunications, media and technology
  • Recruitment

We’re based in major cities around the country so can help wherever you or your employees are based. We also work with international companies on UK employment law issues.

Why Choose Our Employment Law Solicitors?

You’ll be working with one of the UK’s leading teams of employment solicitors, with offices across the country.

We’re efficient and cost-effective across both individual matters and high volume work. With our strategic advice and set cost training packages, you can benefit from:

  • Lower business risk through improved legal compliance
  • Increased profits from improved staff performance and productivity
  • Reduced risk of leavers damaging the company
  • Peace of mind for managers
  • More time for managers to drive value.

Our flexible fee structures mean that you get exactly the level of service you need with no unwelcome surprises. You can choose from options including a bank of hours, capped fees, or a retainer service.

We've been named ‘Employment Law Firm of the Year’ at the Personnel Today 2022 awards. They were impressed by the team's many achievements and said its thoughtful solutions to support clients through challenges have had a material impact on their ability to navigate difficult times

You can also take advantage of our firm’s expertise in other areas of law that impact employers, such as pensions, tax and immigration.

Contact Us

Learn more about how our employment lawyers can help your business – call us on 01142 781 629 or contact us online.

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Case Study – Intercity

Intercity is a large IT services business specialising in communications, managed services, and cloud security, with over 2500 customers from SME to enterprise level.

We've worked with Intercity for over a decade, advising across employment, commercial, and contract law. Most recently, we've helped them manage TUPE regulations as part of a big new deal.

Charlie, Group Managing Director, now considers us as an extended part of the team, one that shares Intercity's values and cares about their success.

Read Charlie's full story

“They make you feel more assured, more confident. They know we’re a business that’s growing, that’s fast-moving, and they move with the times. We trust them.”

Charlie Blackmore, Group Managing Director

We Work Nationally

We have offices in major cities throughout the UK and our lawyers can arrange to visit you or your business in person if necessary. We also have international capability, with global links to other legal specialists.

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Awards & Accreditations

We’re proud of the recognition we’ve received for our business legal work. For a list of awards and accreditations, please visit our awards page.

The Times Best Law Firms 2019
Chambers & Partners 2020 logo
Employment Law Firm of the Year 2022

Business News

Our lawyers are regularly asked to provide expert insight, advice and analysis for the national media. Take a look at the stories below to see what we’re saying, as well as some of the recent deals we have completed for our clients here in the UK and abroad.