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Joanna Blackburn
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Work Department
Employment.
Position
Joanna Blackburn is a partner and head of the employment department, where she handles all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. This includes executive terminations, discrimination, wrongful and unfair dismissal, TUPE, large-scale reorganisations and contract issues. She regularly advises LLPs on partnership matters and is well-versed in the issues that affect their members. Further afield, Joanna’s expertise also covers the employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions and flotations, outsourcing, and works councils. Joanna’s clients are both employers and employees and are drawn from all aspects of business, including investment banks, financial organisations, fashion and luxury goods houses, telecoms, record and television companies, plc directors and bankers. Joanna is the subject of glowing reviews in ‘The Legal 500’ (‘unfailingly provides advice of the highest calibre’). On top of all this, she is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association, co-author of the Industrial Society book on disability discrimination and lectures regularly on employment law.
Career
Qualified, Booth & Co (now Addleshaw Booth & Co) 1995; partner, Mishcon de Reya 2001.
Member
Employment Lawyers Association.
Education
University of Nottingham (1991 BA English).
Practice Areas
Employment
