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Legal support for in-house employment lawyers

Our award-winning employment law solicitors and HR team specialise in providing legal advice to all types of businesses and employers. We pride ourselves in resolving all types of legal disputes, whether assisting businesses deal with disciplinary issues or grievances, issues around managing performance and sickness absence as well as dealing with redundancies. We also have an excellent track record in defending tribunal claims.

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Who we can support

Whether you are an in-house solicitor in an SME, or general counsel large corporation / FTE 100 company, as an award winning team of employment law solicitors, Stephensons are pleased to offer their support and assistance with your day to day and large scale employment law matters.

Here at Stephensons, we appreciate that the role and duties of one in house counsel to another will vary significantly based on the industry and market you operate within, and that as a result there is almost always unique and niche tasks you will be managing. We understand and appreciate that this work can be voluminous and complex, and that sometimes there just aren’t enough hands to deal with everything. Your partnership with Stephensons enables you to work with us either in the form of an overflow, or an extension of your business to assist with managing your workload.

How can we help?

Our support can be tailored and bespoke based on your needs at any one time. Should you require our assistance with an ongoing and long-term project, adhoc queries, or as an extension of you/your team for day-to-day employment law matters, we are on hand to assist. Our solicitors are experienced in a large catalogue of employment law matters, including but not limited to:

  • Drafting and reviewing employment contracts
  • Drafting and reviewing internal employment policies and governance documents
  • Advising on small to large scale redundancies
  • Preparing and negotiating exits and settlement agreements
  • Defending Employment Tribunal litigation
  • Advising on day-to-day personnel and HR queries
  • Assisting and advising on TUPE transfers
  • Providing training on recent employment law developments and refresher training on a catalogue of employment law legislation

Your needs will be bespoke to your business, and we are happy to tailor our services to suit, get in touch with our team to discuss your unique needs.

Why choose us?

Our solicitors support businesses on a day-to-day basis, with a broad and varied client basis. As a result, we have experience in almost all industries and business types and are well equipped and positioned to offer support an on a quick and flexible basis to in house teams, no matter the industry.

Our solicitors have many years of experience advising businesses on employment law issues, ranging from day-to-day employee and personnel queries, to large scale litigation. There is no task too small or too large that cannot be supported by us.

At the commencement of any instruction, it is our priority to get to know you and your business, just as we know our own. That is why we will spend time learning about your business profile, and internal governance procedures, in order to ensure that any advice and support provided is reflective of your business policies and values.

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