Forbes Solicitors

Employment - Commercial

Jo is a Partner within the Commercial Employment Team with over 20 years’ experience.

Her work covers a range of sectors including Manufacturing and Engineering, Hospitality, Food & Drink Production, Technology and Care. She is the primary contact for some of the Team’s biggest clients, which include James Places, Motiva Implants UK Limited, Northcoders Limited and Salt Separation.

Jo has great technical knowledge and an ability to grasp complex legal issues which she is then able to break down to provide commercial, pragmatic advice to her clients.

A key strength for Jo is her significant contribution to employment law training and business development initiatives which help train and support clients, raise the profile of the Forbes’ Commercial team and also help educate the North West business and legal community on employment and HR matters. She is a Council Member for the Manchester Law Society and co-chairs its Employment Law Forum. This includes working closely with employment lawyers across the North West, arranging quarterly meetings, responding to Government consultations linked to the Employment Rights Bill (now Act). In this role, she arranges the Forum’s Annual Employment Law Conference with exceptional speakers which in 2025 included the Regional Employment Judge for the North West and leading experts on National Minimum Wage laws and Trade Union/Industrial relations. She also regularly trains our key clients including Boohoo/Debenham’s Group and James Places, Nordex and writes and delivers interactive external training events in collaboration with Hays Recruitment and East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce including mock disciplinaries, workplace mediations and Tribunals. She sits on the advisory Board of Grit Studios, a CIC, to provide employment and Governance advice.