About me
I’m a partner in the firm’s Employment team and am Deputy National Head of Employment. I provide specialist advice to a wide range of clients on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious matters.
Having built my practice over the past 20 years, I help clients by providing practical advice to navigate the ever-increasing legislation that employers need to be aware of to stay out of employment tribunals and manage their staff.
I’m proud of the many enduring client relationships I’ve built based on being responsive, commercially focused, direct and straight-talking. I love problem-solving and like to consider the available legal options creatively as a means to achieving the objective rather than taking a rigid approach. I’m the person who’ll state the risks involved, the options available and, critically, what I would do and why, if it were my business. Not everyone is willing to do that.
Many of my clients have followed me from my previous firm, so they clearly consider I’m doing something right!
Outside of work, I’m a father of two, a trustee of two charities and an ex-hockey player, the latter being the reason I now have a (fixed) metal hip.
My experience
- I work with businesses to help them achieve their goals. I’m a recognised expert on holiday pay issues and am asked regularly to comment in various publications on this important topic.
- I’m the Client Partner for some of the firm’s most strategic clients, particularly those in the professional services sector, as I play an active role in the Professional Services Group. I’m often asked to advise on restrictive covenant issues where this is a key area requiring business protection.
- I was previously National Head of Employment at my last firm where I worked for 23 years. I play a key role in driving forward the employment group’s product offering allowing us to offer fixed or capped fee services so that clients can budget plan.
- I conduct my own advocacy in the Employment Tribunal and have had a number of cases at appeal stage. I successfully defended a claim for less favourable treatment for part-time workers in the Scottish Court of Session, which had large-scale implications and costs for the employer around bank holidays (McMenemy -v- Capita Business Services Limited).
- I’m a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
