Emma Sangeelee
About
Provided by Emma Sangeelee
Practice Areas
Employment
Career
Emma is a Partner in the Employment Department with significant experience providing strategic and commercial advice to businesses and individuals across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Her clients are from a variety of industry sectors including financial services, media and entertainment, real estate, hospitality, charity, manufacturing, education, and local authorities.
Emma regularly handles complex and high profile discrimination claims with a particular specialism in disability discrimination. Her clients praise her for being an “outstanding lawyer providing clear, honest and pragmatic advice coupled with an empathetic and measured approach”, “incredibly supportive” and having an “excellent grasp of strategy and tactics”.
Emma regularly speaks at employment law seminars.
Professional Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association
Chambers Review
UK
Emma Sangeelee has a particular focus on handling complex disability discrimination claims for senior employees. She has a broad litigation practice and also works with clients on claims relating to unfair dismissal as well as other grounds of discrimination.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Emma is absolutely wonderful. She is brilliant to work with, very bright, hard-working and she really tests every angle. She has also got very good commercial awareness and is very realistic."
"She has a very strong human and emotional awareness, making her quite exceptional in the way she handles her job. She is intelligent and has empathy, the best combination for an employment lawyer."
"She has boundless energy and is really on top of the detail of the case. She isn't afraid to question, push and challenge to get the right outcome for the client."
"Emma is absolutely wonderful. She is brilliant to work with, very bright, hard-working and she really tests every angle. She has also got very good commercial awareness and is very realistic."
"She has a very strong human and emotional awareness, making her quite exceptional in the way she handles her job. She is intelligent and has empathy, the best combination for an employment lawyer."
"She has boundless energy and is really on top of the detail of the case. She isn't afraid to question, push and challenge to get the right outcome for the client."
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