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Employment law is constantly changing, but at Blake Morgan our team of expert employment law solicitors understand the commercial impact of these changes and how to secure the best outcome for your organisation.

Our employment lawyers are part of Blake Morgan’s wider Employment, Pensions, Benefits and Immigration group who work closely together, comprising a team of over 20 employment experts. Our employment law solicitors specialise in all aspects of employment law and our clients consistently praise our pragmatic, commercial and solution-driven advice which is tailored to their needs.

Main Areas Of Practice


Advocacy and representation

For claims in Employment Tribunals.

Representation before appeal courts

Including the EAT, High Court and other courts up to the Supreme Court.

Employment contracts, service agreements and policies

Including drafting GDPR-compliant policies, handbooks, staff privacy notices and contractual documentation, drafting and enforcing restrictive covenants, protecting of confidential information, drafting and advising on partnership documents, advising on employment status issues and drafting consultancy and independent contractor agreements.

All day-to-day employment law and HR issues

Such as discrimination, equal opportunities, equal pay, disciplinary hearings, grievances, absence, performance management, staff-related data protection issues including subject access requests, wages, working time, gender pay reporting, whistleblowing and family friendly rights.

Dismissals and redundancy

Disciplinary dismissals, redundancies, ill-health dismissals and retirements, voluntary early severance agreements, senior executive terminations, boardroom disputes, protected conversations, settlement negotiations and settlement agreements.

Collective bargaining and trade union issues

Including advice on collective agreements, strikes or threatened industrial action, information and consultation requirements and works councils.

Restructuring and reorganisation

Advice, drafting and due diligence work, changes to terms and conditions, relocation, mergers, acquisitions, procurement, resourcing, outsourcing and TUPE (transfer of undertakings or service provision changes).

Recruitment sector advice

Our specialist team are experts in advising on all legal aspects of recruitment including advice to organisations supplying or relying on permanent, self-employed or temporary staff including agency workers. The team advises on Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Managed Service Arrangements as well as all legal considerations facing recruitment businesses.

Our Clients


Our employment law solicitors act for a wide range of public, private and third sector clients, from individuals to household names, spanning a large number of industries and sectors and including some of the leading organisations in their respective fields.

"Blake Morgan are always knowledgeable and put forward solutions to difficult issues."
- Chambers and Partners, 2025


"They offer very clear and realistic advice and always provide many options in simple terms. They are always approachable and responsive."
- Chambers and Partners, 2025


“We receive an excellent service from Blake Morgan. They provide high quality advice and are always willing to help.”
- Legal 500


"The Blake Morgan team are very helpful and cover all areas of law that we need. They're also good value for money."
- Chambers and Partners, 2025


"Blake Morgan has always demonstrated commercial awareness when giving advice."
- Chambers and Partners, 2023


"Consistently high standard of advice."
- Legal 500, 2023


"Excellent, knowledgeable and prompt advice and support tailored to our needs."
- Legal 500, 2022


"Blake Morgan is an amazing firm."
- Chambers and Partners, 2022


"Very risk-focused – takes the time to understand our business, our attitude to risk; and makes recommendations on that basis."
- Legal 500, 2022


"Blake Morgan’s employment team is exceptional in understanding our business scenario; our preferred outcome; and any other key factors such as time and resource restrictions before applying their insight and experience to give us the art of the possible."
- Legal 500, 2022


Highlights


Providing all employment law advice (with Pensions and Immigration) for a key health sector client on complex clawback provisions on training costs (potentially running to six figures), discrimination issues, TUPE, collective agreements, back-pay for doctors, and a major restructuring project involving redundancies of very senior staff.


Advising a Plc and a subsidiary when a contract was awarded to various incoming contractors resulting in complex TUPE and redundancy issues. The 18-month project (affecting 700 employees) involved identifying the transferring staff, and advising on redundancies, collective consultation, electing representatives, Trade Union issues, and fragmentation. The project successfully resulted in no tribunal claims.


Defending a leading UK security company in 36 claims for unlawful deduction of wages, breach of contract, unfair dismissal, working time regulations, whistleblowing and race, religion or belief, disability, sex and sexual orientation discrimination. We successfully defended all claims that went to full hearing; the remainder were withdrawn, settled or struck out.


Awards And Accolades


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Chair End of Year Report 2023/24

Highlights from the last year of the activities we have done to support our communities.

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Employment Law Handy Fact card 2024/25

All the latest Employment law facts and figures in one convenient place

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Chair End of Year Report 2022/23

Highlights from the last year of the activities we have done to support our communities.

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