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Rachel Lewis

020 3375 7440 rachel.lewis@farrer.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Employment.

Position

Rachel provides advice across a full spectrum of employment issues to a diverse range of clients. She acts both for employers and for senior employees. Rachel has run significant employment tribunal claims involving complex discrimination and whistleblowing issues, and also has experience of mediation as an alternative to litigation. She has particular expertise in large scale redundancy exercises and restructurings, and has a strong pedigree in public sector work. She has won praise from clients and legal directories for her pragmatism and the commerciality of her approach, focusing on finding effective solutions to seemingly intractable problems. This fits with her track record of building up strong, long term working relationships with her clients’ HR and management teams, enabling her to understand and add value to their business. Rachel also writes and lectures regularly on employment law issues.

Career

Joined Farrer & Co as a trainee solicitor in 1994, became a partner in 2002.

Memberships

Industrial Law Society (ex member of management committee); Employment Lawyers Association.

Education

Jesus College Oxford, BA Modern History; College of Law, London, CPE and LPC.