Our team across the UK and Europe has decades of practical experience in all areas of employment law. Our generalist expertise advising employers is the foundation of our work. Building on our generalist practice, we focus on.
- Business transformation –strategic projects, including business function out- or in-sourcing, restructuring projects and reductions in force and the evaluation and implementation of alternative staffing models and ways of working. Visit our Transformation page to find out more.
- Investigations – we accompany you every step of the way in managing sensitive workplace investigations from whistleblower reports to sexual harassment allegations. Depending on the issues, we work with you to manage effective investigations internally or, where necessary, we can carry out or facilitate external investigation. Visit our Investigations page to find out more.
- Litigation – we have a strong litigation practice covering high-value and sensitive strategic litigation as well as volume litigation, and we regularly appear in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). Visit our Litigation page to find out more.
We leverage a range of innovative technology solutions to manage your work efficiently and drive collaboration, including bespoke project environments where we can "meet" your teams and work together in real time, cutting-edge e-discovery platforms and emerging AI solutions.
Why choose our Employment lawyers?
We
work on a fully integrated basis internationally, with experienced employment
specialists across all major European jurisdictions and an established network
of "best friend" firms globally. For global projects, we provide a
seamless service: we will offer a full project management service and
coordinate with colleagues and partners across the network, providing you with
a single point of contact and fully integrated advice to achieve your
commercial objectives. We also appreciate that, in other cases, you may want to
work with our colleagues directly, and we manage cases flexibly to meet your
needs.
People
issues in particular will often involve elements that go beyond pre employment
law, including tax, data protection, regulatory and even criminal law. We leverage
the expertise of market-leading practice areas across Fieldfisher and work very
closely with our colleagues to deliver best-in-class holistic solutions to your
People issues.
We look to develop long-term strategic partnerships with clients and our ambition is to be seen as an extension of clients' in-house legal and HR teams and trusted advisors to business leads. We differentiate ourselves from other firms by providing pragmatic, commercial advice, based on a robust and quantified risk assessment and with clear recommendations to support decision-making – we do not sit on the fence.
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