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Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities.
Widely recognised as the UK's leading specialist employment law practice, our team of over 170 employment and immigration lawyers, including 33 partners advise on all the day to day UK and Irish employment law issues that arise from the initial employment offer to departure and everything in between.
We have the agility to be fully flexible to what our clients need, providing the right team at the right price for all types of companies whatever their stage of development
Our practice has the distinctive strength in depth to support clients in a range of specialist areas. We have specialist groups who focus on High Court litigation (such as restrictive covenants and team moves), collective employment law (including dealing with trade unions and European Works Councils), data protection and employee privacy, health and safety law and partnerships law. Through our rockhopper service, we can provide clients with low cost, fixed fee helpline and Employment Tribunal support.
Our dedicated senior executives team advise individuals on all aspects of employment law, with particular specialism in discrimination law.
We also advise on the employment aspects of outsourcing and M&A transactions and international employment law through our membership of Ius Laboris, the leading global employment law alliance.
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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.
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Their knowledge is of course exceptional, however their patience in explaining reasons as well as suggesting alternatives is phenomenal.
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.
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.
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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.
He is a subject matter expert. All things considered, David is one of the best attorneys I have worked with.
David's expertise is unparalleled.
He has always been an incredible support with the required expertise and understanding of our business.
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.
Nicholas was a pleasure to work with and very user-friendly. He was extremely responsive, supportive and quick to provide commercial guidance, when necessary, because of his wealth of experience.
Nicholas Hadaway is an outstanding advocate, solicitor and commercial intellect.
He was very professional, thorough and detail-oriented.
Nicholas in an excellent solicitor. He gets right to the heart of a dispute and tries to bring in the client's desired outcome at proportionate cost. He is a pleasure to work with.
Toni is totally committed, great on the law and on the cases. He is great to work with and very impressive.
Toni is without doubt one of the most talented and dedicated partners in the market.
He is an excellent, first rate employment lawyer.
David Samuels is a partner in the employment litigation team at Lewis Silkin. He is recommended by clients for his proficiency in handling team move and whistleblowing claims.
Colin Leckey is an incredible lawyer.
Colin is fantastic. He is unbelievably bright, but commercially sharp and a pleasure to work with.
Colin is particularly skilled at dealing with complex client management issues and conducting high court and tribunal litigation, in which he's highly experienced.
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 very knowledgeable, provides strong, commercial and practical advice and is a delight to work with.
Karen is excellent at investigations.
He's one of the best, most responsive and commercial partners I've ever worked with.
He has excellent technical knowledge and an ability to apply that commercially.
Sean has been great managing and always helps us find innovative solutions to our problems.
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.
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 is a phenomenal individual to work with, with incredible knowledge and patience in approaching issues.
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 an excellent lawyer who is very commercially savy and superb for employee competition disputes.
Carla Watling is really excellent.
She has first class knowledge in this space.
Carla is very experienced.
She's a responsive, pragmatic professional and approachable.
Laetitia has a superb eye for what matters in a particular case and how to achieve the relevant commercial outcome.
Anna Bond is a managing associate at Lewis Silkin with expertise on DE&I issues, discrimination and investigations.
Anna provides sound, commercial and practical advice in a calm and measured way.
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 is always very on top of everything. She has really thought ahead about the issues and what will be engaged in a case.