Laura Brown > Howes Percival LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
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FLINT BUILDINGS
1 BEDDING LANE
NORWICH
NR3 1RG
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Laura Brown
Work Department
Employment
Position
Laura is a Director in our employment law team and joined the firm in 2021.
Laura advises a variety of clients (ranging from international groups to smaller start-ups) within various industries including technology, education, energy and renewables, motor, manufacturing and food sectors.
Laura works closely with HR Professionals, managers and owners of businesses to:
• ensure that employment documentation is fit for purpose;
• guide businesses through complex employment law processes;
• support clients with major changes which will impact on staff, such as restructure and redundancy;
• deal with issues on termination of employment including confidentiality and restrictive covenants;
• assist on transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions and in/outsourcing (TUPE)
Laura also has extensive experience in contentious matters including tribunal litigation, settlement agreements, bonus disputes, discrimination and equality, complex grievances and restrictive covenants.
Laura is regularly hosting and presenting at events and has been praised for her training she offers to clients on employment law topics such as equality and diversity, management, investigating and modern slavery).
Clients refer to Laura as being “professional” and “approachable” who “blends legislation, best practice and commerciality”.
Laura is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Career
- 2021 – Present: Howes Percival LLP, Director
- 2018 – 2021: Birketts LLP, Senior Associate
- 2013 – 2018: Birketts LLP, Associate
- 2009 – 2013: Birketts LLP, Solicitor
- 2006 – 2009: Fosters LLP / Birketts LLP, Paralegal / Trainee Solicitor
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Employment > Employment
(Rising stars)Howes Percival LLP provides an ‘efficient, communicative and personable service’ to its clients across East Anglia and further afield. Practice head Matthew Potter in Cambridge has extensive experience in board-level disputes and exits. Norwich-based legal director Laura Brown is valued by clients for her ‘honesty and excellent problem-solving skills’; she also provides ‘superb client management with consideration and instinctive understanding’ in both domestic and cross-border matters for clients in the leisure, technology, education, energy and renewables, motor, manufacturing and food sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Family