Ruby Dinsmore

Practice Areas

Ruby is a partner in the employment team based in London. Her clients include top-tier senior executives, chairpersons, managing directors, finance and compliance directors, founders, and C-suite executives. She has over a decade’s experience and is commended by clients for her empathy, pragmatism, and tough negotiation skills.

With a focus on acting for senior executives and partners, many of whom are based in the financial and professional services sectors, she advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment, partnership and boardroom matters and is recognised, in particular, for her expertise in exit strategies, complex exit settlement negotiations, whistleblowing, and discrimination claims. She is skilled at reaching high value settlement agreements and where appropriate contesting cases in the employment tribunal and High Court.

In addition to her senior executive practice, Ruby has a significant track record in advising, litigating, and negotiating on pay and award disputes, non-financial misconduct and discrimination cases. With a strong interest in issues facing women at work, Ruby regularly represents clients in sex, pregnancy and maternity discrimination matters, equal pay disputes, and sexual harassment claims, as well as advising individuals with mental health conditions in relation to disability discrimination and reasonable adjustment disputes. She is adept at helping her clients raise their grievances, navigate misconduct and challenge allegations of poor performance.

A regular contributor to the print and broadcast media on employment law issues, Ruby has established herself as a sought-after spokesperson. She has been interviewed by Sky News, BBC, ITV, LBC and 5Live and has appeared on the BBC’s Politics Show to discuss issues facing working mothers. She has also contributed to print articles in the Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Times, and other newspapers and magazines.

Career

Trained Mayo Wynne Baxter LLP; qualified 2009; principal lawyer Slater and Gordon (UK) 2018; partner Penningtons Manches Cooper 2021

Professional Memberships

Employment Lawyers’ Association

Education