About

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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 325 employment, immigration and data privacy experts advise on all employment law issues.

We provide clear, pragmatic and commercial advice, with unmatched international coverage. We focus on day to day advisory work, strategic projects and Employment Tribunal and complex litigation. We also have dedicated teams of experts in specialist areas including High Court employment litigation, investigations, trade unions and works councils, outsourcing and M&A, alternative workforce arrangements, global mobility and reward and tax. Our dedicated senior executives team advise individuals on all aspects of employment law, with a particular specialism in discrimination law.

Alongside our colleagues in Ius Laboris, the world’s leading international HR practice (of which we are the UK, Irish and Hong Kong member), we cut through the complexity of managing a global workforce, providing clients with the best local employment lawyers in one global team.

We also support clients through our low cost, fixed fee helpline and Employment Tribunal service rockhopper, our flexible resourcing service LS In-house and through WORKSPHERE, our people solutions service providing training, HR consultancy, pay and reward services.

Chambers Review

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Employment - North West

2
Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Lewis Silkin supports household-name corporate employers from a range of sectors including the film and entertainment industry, transport and retail, to name a few, both nationally and internationally. The Manchester team advises on tribunal claims, industrial relation matters, boardroom-level disputes and workplace investigations. It has particular strength in defending discrimination and unfair dismissal claims and assisting with senior executive terminations.

Work Highlights

  • Lewis Silkin advised Gatekeeper on navigating a change to its operating model and contractual arrangement in the UK, changing its model from a self-employed contractor workforce to an employed model.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Sally Hulston
2
Sally Hulston
2
Band 2

Sally Hulston is head of the Manchester office. Her expertise is broad and includes conducting sensitive workplace investigations and senior executive terminations, as well as discrimination claims and substantial restructurings.

She is always readily available. Her advice is pragmatic and helpful.

Sally is a wonderful legal partner with whom to work. Her support has been excellent on a wide variety of topics and cases.

Sally Hulston offers an incredible level of client care and collaborative approach to service delivery. She is clearly a great leader of a cohesive, energetic and happy team.

Sally Hulston is very responsive and commercially pragmatic in her advice. She is focused on finding solutions.

Sally is just fantastic to work with on every level. She understands the business and has taken the time to really get to know our business and our team, which makes working with her so easy.

Bryn Doyle
5
Bryn Doyle
5
Band 5

Bryn Doyle is a very experienced employment lawyer based in Manchester. His focus spans employment and workforce-related work, and his work includes advising on TUPE implications, large-scale redundancies and company reorganisations, and employment tribunal litigation.

Bryn Doyle has always been excellent.

Bryn has a good reputation in the marketplace.

Carly Mather
5
Carly Mather
5
Band 5

Carly Mather has experience in supporting clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Her work includes senior executive terminations and trade union and industrial relations matters, as well as discrimination and whistle-blowing claims.

She is an excellent new employment partner. She is one to watch.

Carly was responsive, clear and extremely helpful.

I can rely on her to step into my role with full confidence that she will give great advice that’s grounded in the reality of my business.

Carly Mather is phenomenal. She has a sharp incisive ability to get to the heart of issues quickly. She is a lawyer who I want on my bench. I trust her to do it all.

Carly Mather is approachable and has an excellent communication style, making her very easy to work with.

Ranked Lawyers at
Lewis Silkin

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North West

Employment

Sally Hulston
2
Sally Hulston
2
Band 2
Bryn Doyle
5
Bryn Doyle
5
Band 5
Carly Mather
5
Carly Mather
5
Band 5

Members

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