We are all highly experienced, senior employment lawyers who have extensive experience of employment law and have been trusted business advisers to many organisations and individuals.  We have come together, in a like-minded law practice, to provide commercially sound, robust and objective advice and we have developed a strong track record in solving our clients’ problems swiftly, economically and conclusively.  Collectively, we have several decades’ worth of seasoned, pragmatic guidance to offer you.  For more information about our approach to our work please see our principles.

Our firm is led by Luke Menzies, a dual-qualified barrister and solicitor.  Luke has extensive experience of employment law, as both an experienced business adviser and as a successful trial lawyer.  He and our team of employment solicitors have a wealth of knowledge and a good practical appreciation of what businesses and individuals need from their legal adviser.  For more information on who we are see our people. 

 

We aim to be a highly valuable, collaborative extension of your HR team (rather than a distant and aloof law firm in the traditional style).  We have developed some very fulfilling, long-term relationships with HR managers, directors and senior management teams through our ability – and our wish – to work as part of your business.  We prefer to visit you on your site rather than requiring you to come to us and there is nothing we like better than rolling up our sleeves and getting involved as you develop HR strategy and grapple with staffing problems.  We aim to be seen as an asset, not a cost, and we believe that our approach makes us significantly different from our competitors.  For more information on the way we work please see our principles.

 

You will not find a more practical team of employment lawyers.  We don’t just tell you our view of the law and leave you to it.  We regard that as leaving the job half done.  Instead, we aim to suggest and guide you on the practical implementation of our advice, such as drafting letters and scripts for meetings, planning strategies and project timetables with you, and thrashing out the contents of selection criteria. 

Effective, capable, resourceful.  This is our approach.

 

We advise a wide range of employers, of all sizes, including household names, global industrial groups and a wide range of other businesses and organisations across several sectors, such as automotive, defence, technology, IT, steel, manufacturing, retail and education. Read more about our sector specialisms.

Our core services are general HR support, Employment Tribunal representation and assisting with exit packages and compromise agreements. Read more about our legal services for employers.

Many of our clients work with us under a fixed-fee annual retainer package.

 

In addition, we advise directors, senior managers and all types of employees, particularly in respect of exit packages, compromise agreements and Employment Tribunal claims.  Read more about our legal services for employees.

 

We don’t see employment law as existing in a vacuum. It naturally blends into other areas such as investigations, industrial relations, management training, hr consultancy and health, safety & environment. We aim to support and enhance our clients’ businesses across this spectrum by providing each of these services in addition to the purely legal, and we welcome the opportunity to explain how. 

Read about our clients and sector specialisms and hear what our clients have to say about us.

For details of our forthcoming seminars, training and networking events please see our news & events.