Employment
UK Guide 2025 : East Anglia
Band 1
Email address
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(01223) 364 422Chambers Review
Mills & Reeve possesses a highly regarded employment team and is a top choice for clients in both the public and private sectors. The firm is well known for its work with clients in education, healthcare, agribusiness and the region's growth-stage business environment. Its lawyers assist with a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. The employment practice is based across offices in Cambridge and Norwich.
Work Highlights
- Mills & Reeve represented a leading UK university in a major restructuring and collective redundancy exercise involving more than 100 members of academic and professional staff.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Mills & Reeve are highly knowledgeable and well able to support with complex employment matters."
"Mills & Reeve get a quick grasp of the matter and are able to relay advice in a commercial and pragmatic manner."
"Our contacts at Mills & Reeve are able to advise us on the legal frameworks and case law without getting too bogged down in the detail, while acknowledging our organisational context and challenges."
"Mills & Reeve are highly knowledgeable and well able to support with complex employment matters."
"Mills & Reeve get a quick grasp of the matter and are able to relay advice in a commercial and pragmatic manner."
"Our contacts at Mills & Reeve are able to advise us on the legal frameworks and case law without getting too bogged down in the detail, while acknowledging our organisational context and challenges."
Notable Practitioners
Tracy Yates advises clients on employment-based immigration. She is a consultant to the firm and is based in Mills & Reeve's Norwich office.
Cambridge-based David Mills is head of Mills & Reeve's national employment team. He handles a variety of employment work including workforce restructures and board-level disputes. He has particular experience in advising technology and manufacturing clients.
"David is the most knowledgeable and commercially aware lawyer I have dealt with."
"David provides excellent guidance on employment issues."
James Kidd has expertise in handling senior exits and employment tribunal claims, with particular experience acting for life sciences, agribusiness and tech clients. He is based in Mills & Reeve's office in Norwich.
Kate Ledwidge is a principal associate in Mills & Reeve's Norwich office. She has experience acting on a wide range of issues including sensitive senior exits and business reorganisations.