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Pinsent Masons

Employment

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Pinsent Masons

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Employment - Yorkshire: South and West

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Pinsent Masons fields a prominent employment law service engaged by regional, national and global clients including many FTSE 100 and 250 groups. The team has broad sector experience that includes technology, financial services and retail, as well as notable strength in sports-related matters. It is also adept at handling sensitive industrial relations issues along with HR matters and exit negotiations for senior executives. The employment team is based in Leeds.

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Work Highlights

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  • Pinsent Masons defended Imagination Technologies in a whistle-blowing claim brought by a former CEO.

Strengths

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  • The team have supported us in terms of future legislation and allowed us to identify risks as well as how to mitigate them.

    Employment respondentUK

  • Pinsent Masons invest time in understanding our organisation's needs, priorities and preferred approaches to employment matters. This personalised attention is really valuable to us.

    Employment respondentUK

  • We've been through a complex and sometimes challenging time, and the team have been with us every step of the way, taking the time to understand the situation and how they can best support us.

    Employment respondentUK

  • Their focus on relationship management is a real positive for me, as well as understanding our ways of working.

    Employment respondentUK

  • Pinsent Masons take a pragmatic and proactive approach. They give advice that is easily understood and can be applied to our industry, and they offer a balanced commercial judgement.

    Employment respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Jon Fisher
    Jon Fisher

    Jon Fisher

    Jon Fisher is a seasoned employment law practitioner who heads the Leeds-based practice at Pinsent Masons. He has wide-ranging expertise covering TUPE-related matters, HR work and employment tribunal litigation.

    • Jon has a clever knack of explaining complex issues in a simple way. We value his simple and commercial approach.

      Employment respondentUK

    • Jon is approachable, helpful and clearly very knowledgeable. He applies the a practical overlay to the law and is willing to state levels of risk to advice given and suggestions made.

      Employment respondentUK

    • Jon is simply the best. He applies his extensive knowledge to the situation to help us understand the legal perspective while taking the time to understand the commercial reality.

      Employment respondentUK

    • Jon is our absolute trusted adviser. He completely understands us and the business, and provides pragmatic and reasoned advice for every situation.

      Employment respondentUK
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  • Joe McMorrow
    Joe McMorrow

    Joe McMorrow

    Joe McMorrow is a specialist in employment law concerning the sports and technology sectors. He advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters including transactional mandates, employment tribunal litigation and contractual negotiations.

    • Joe is fantastic and a true expert at what he does.

      Employment respondentUK

    • Joe has the technical knowledge but he leads with client outcome and how to manage the legal side to reach your target.

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