This month we say goodbye and thank you to Sherrie Slater, our long-serving and hard-working Business Manager, who has retired.  In her place we welcome Victoria Thorne, our new Practice Manager.  Along with the new job title, Victoria’s role will take on more strategic responsibilities plus some sales and marketing.  With a diverse background in…
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employment law update 21st September Absolutely everything you need to know about the last six months, as well as what’s coming up on the employment law horizon. We’ll be taking a reasoned, measured look at what Brexit does (and doesn’t) mean for UK employment law, plus all the latest on UK and EU cases on…
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Like it or not, every HR professional has to get to grips with TUPE at some point. Despite the huge numbers of employees that are transferred every year, business transfers remain a notoriously complex and tricky part of UK employment law. TUPE is one of the areas that we are most regularly asked to advise…
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If you haven’t already booked, then why not join us for an entertaining and engaging trip through the last six months’ worth of employment law developments, and discussion of what may be on the horizon, on 17 March at Eastwood Park. We’ll be covering important developments in: the incoming gender pay gap publication requirements; modern…
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Equal Pay: How much will it cost you? Taking place on 10 May at Eastwood Park, this half-day seminar will look in detail at the new Gender Pay Gap reporting obligations. We’ll give you the lowdown on the GPG ‘norm’ within different sectors and what factors might make your business a target for equal pay…
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We are delighted to welcome Anne-Marie Boyle to the Menzies Law advisory team this month. Anne-Marie is another of the region’s leading employment lawyers.  As well as being lovely to talk to and fiendishly clever (of course), she brings with her over two decades of specialist experience, including tons of commercial nous, technical skill and…
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There’s still time to book onto our Spring Employment Law Update, taking place on 17 March at Eastwood Park. The new half-day format, which is followed by a three-course networking lunch and a champagne prize draw, includes all the hottest topics and latest legislation and we can also promise in advance that we’ll be covering…
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We are celebrating twice over this month for client and peer recognition of our quality of service.  First, we have risen in the ranks of the region’s ‘top ranked’ law firms in leading law firm directory Chambers & Partners in its 2015 edition. Additionally, our firm has also received the honour this year of being…
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From 12 noon on Thursday 24 December our offices will be closed for the festive break. We will re-open on Monday 4 January 2016. During this time we will operate an emergency out-of-hours telephone service via our main number, 0117 325 0526, if anything really urgent crops up for you. We wish you a very…
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Following on from my recent blog Lawyer or Catfish?, my first offering on how lawyers can be more effective and nicer all round comes down to Being Quiet A Lot More Than Usual. Those of you who know me will appreciate that this is something I, for one, have to work hard at. Successful lawyers…
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