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Lewis Silkin Offices
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Colin Leckey
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Partner in employment. Particular focus on the technology, financial services and professional services sectors.
Also has extensive experience of advising on TUPE, outsourcings, high-value
discrimination, equal pay and whistleblowing claims and collective and individual redundancies, as well as cross-border employment matters.
Key matters in the last 12 months include representing a high profile technology company on an employment status dispute before the CAC, defending a large scale equal pay claim in the High Court, and advising an energy trading company on a restructuring and discrimination claim.
Career
Trained Baker McKenzie; qualified 2003; associate Baker and McKenzie 2003-08; senior associate Baker and McKenzie 2008-12, partner Lewis Silkin 2012 to present. Current directorships: Strategic Society Centre Ltd. Publications of note: Tolley’s Discrimination Handbook (first and second editions).
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association; lus Laboris.
Education
Hertford College, University of Oxford (1999 MA PPE, first); College of Law, York (1999 CPE/LPC).
Leisure
Sports, family.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employers
Lewis Silkin
‘s employment group is recommended for its specialist sub-teams and is able to cover both high-level litigation, including before the Supreme Court, and complex non-contentious matters, such as the employment restructuring of Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover. Joint managing partner of the firm Richard Miskella
heads the team. He is supported by a strong group of expert lawyers, including highly experienced litigators Michael Anderson, Toni Lorenzo and Michael Burd. Colin Leckey, who specialises in disability discrimination claims, is also integral. Further names to note in an impressively deep bench include workplace investigations specialist Karen Baxter, internal employment and partnership specialist James Davies, the discrimination claims and sexual misconduct allegations-focussed Shalina Crossley and managing associate Carla Feakins.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising