Chambers Review
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Employment - UK
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
Lewis Silkin's advice is unique in that it balances expertise with pragmatism and sensitivity.
The firm offers clear practical advice based on superior subject matter knowledge of labour relations. Their service levels and responsiveness are also first rate.
Their knowledge is of course exceptional; however their patience in explaining reasons as well as suggesting alternatives is phenomenal.
Work Highlights
Lewis Silkin represented Aon in connection with a substantial conspiracy claim seeking injunctive relief and damages, arising from alleged unlawful poaching raids conducted across different jurisdictions, including the UK and South America.
Notable practitioners
James provides good advice to clients and is incredibly experienced.
Richard is an exceptional lawyer whose curiosity and drive for social change combined with his expertise and pragmatism makes for an unimprovable combination.
Over the years, Richard has been a helpful and supportive sounding board and I have appreciated his commercial awareness alongside his brilliant legal knowledge.
Toni is without doubt one of the most talented and dedicated partners in the market.
He is an excellent, first rate employment lawyer.
Toni is totally committed, great on the law and on the cases. He is great to work with and very impressive.
Colin Leckey is an incredible lawyer.
Colin is particularly skilled at dealing with complex client management issues and conducting high court and tribunal litigation, in which he's highly experienced.
Colin is fantastic. He is unbelievably bright, but commercially sharp and a pleasure to work with.
Michael Anderson is great. He knows his stuff and is effective.
Michael Anderson is smart, results-oriented and extremely responsive.
Michael Anderson has extraordinary experience.
Karen is very knowledgeable, provides strong, commercial and practical advice and is a delight to work with.
Her advice is commercial, practical and creative, ensuring we have solutions that work for the business. Even in the most complex of situations, she's very credible in front of senior stakeholders.
Karen is excellent at investigations.
Sean has been great managing and always helps us find innovative solutions to our problems.
He has excellent technical knowledge and an ability to apply that commercially.
He's one of the best, most responsive and commercial partners I've ever worked with.
He is an extremely good strategic thinker and very imaginative.
Lee Nair is a partner at Lewis Silkin and specialises in international employment matters. She co-leads the firm's TUPE and contingent worker specialist groups and regularly advises on M&A, restructurings and outsourcings.
She is a phenomenal individual to work with, with incredible knowledge and patience in approaching issues.
Lee Nair is excellent and very pragmatic. She provides excellent communication, both written and verbal, and is always willing to think outside the box with creative solutions.
She's done great work in the employment space.
She will always prioritise her client. You feel wholly supported and deeply empowered by her ability to cut through to the heart of an issue and devise a strategic and powerful response.
Shalina is exceptional. She provides clear, commercial advice imbued with care. She quickly understands a problem and addresses it with clarity and pragmatism.
Carla is very experienced.
Carla is an excellent lawyer who is very commercially savy and superb for employee competition disputes.
Carla Watling is really excellent.
She's a responsive, pragmatic professional and approachable.
She has first class knowledge in this space.
Anna Bond is a managing associate at Lewis Silkin with expertise on DE&I issues, discrimination and investigations.
Anna provides an exceptional client service, working as an extension of our team to deliver commercial and pragmatic advice. She is personable, credible and an expert on many complex matters.
Anna provides sound, commercial and practical advice in a calm and measured way.
Anna is always very on top of everything. She has really thought ahead about the issues and what will be engaged in a case.