Boddy Matthews Solicitors

Senior Partners: Helen Boddy and Kate Matthews
Number of partners: 2
Number of trainee solicitors/paralegals: 1
Number of other fee-earners/consultants: 5

THE FIRM:
Boddy Matthews Solicitors is a boutique commercial firm of solicitors specialising in employment, HR legal, franchising, risk management and dispute resolution. Located close to Gatwick, the firm assists clients in London, nationally and internationally. Its ex City partners are acknowledged experts in their fields with a first class reputation. They offer personal and pragmatic legal advice with a flexible approach to costs, tailored to their clients' business needs. They work in partnership with their clients in an energetic and dynamic way.

Boddy Matthews Solicitors work closely with corporate clients as an extension to the in-house team in a trusted legal adviser role understanding their business objectives and applying legal and commercial expertise to secure the best outcome.

They focus on nurturing a low risk positive work environment, equipping their clients to manage and minimise risk on the basis that “prevention is better than cure”.

Boddy Matthews Solicitors is a modern, progressive law firm. It adopts a flexible approach to working practices which benefit its clients and staff alike. Boddy Matthews has always promoted and offered IT connectivity and remote working. This means their services seamlessly extend beyond ordinary office working hours where desired or as the project/ client requires. This also helps with those working internationally where timescales do not always coincide with UTC/ GMT.

A small firm punching well above its weight in terms of its client base and the quality of its work.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK:
Employment and HR legal, commercial litigation, dispute resolution including mediation and franchising.

KEY MEMBERSHIPS:
Employment Lawyers Association, British Franchise Association and Encouraging Women into Franchising.

INTERNATIONAL:
American Bar Association (International Section and Franchising Section), International Association of Boutique Law Firms, European Employment Lawyers Association.