Karen Baxter

Practice Areas

Karen is a partner, and head of Lewis Silkin’s Investigations and Regulatory group and sits on the Firm’s Strategy Board. She specialises in employment and partnership law, and regularly conducts complex and highly sensitive workplace investigations, alongside her advisory work.

She has a wealth of experience advising major companies and LLPs, in relation to the employment law issues they face, and she routinely conducts complex and highly sensitive investigations, both within the UK and internationally.

Karen has a diverse client base, with a particular emphasis towards advising major domestic and international law firms and other professional services organisations on all aspects of their relationships with their employees and members/partners. This includes resolving issues such as contentious team moves, the enforcement of restrictive covenants and the use of alternative dispute resolution. She also acts for senior executives and individual partners/members.

Career

Trained Lewis Silkin; qualified 2003; associate Lewis Silkin 2003-11; partner Lewis Silkin 2011 to present.

Professional Memberships

ELA; lus Laboris, Association of Partnership Practioners.

Personal

Karen is a passionate advocate of the importance of mental wellbeing and leads Lewis Silkin's mental health campaign, #ThisPlaceMinds.