Employment law
Irwin Mitchell
’s offering is helmed by highly regarded practitioner Jenny Arrowsmith, whose ‘ability to explain complex issues in an understandable and practical format and relate them to the regional context is invaluable’. Key areas of expertise include commercial matters, charity regulation and governance work, land and property issues, and student complaints. The firm fields a strong contentious practice and regularly acts in judicial reviews and challenges against public bodies. Recently, the team has been building its client roster, consisting of further education colleges and multi-academy trusts.
Irwin Mitchell has impressive capabilities across both advisory work and in defending Employment Tribunal cases, possessing specialist knowledge of the education, financial services, manufacturing, retail and consumer, technology, and private wealth sectors. The practice has also grown with the promotion of Padma Tadi-Booth to partner in May 2022, and she has a focus on specialist status issues, as well as an increased amount of work in major settlements and industrial relation mandates. Glenn Hayes heads the team in Leeds with a specialisation in restrictive covenants and all matters relating to senior level employees. He works alongside Jenny Arrowsmith, who leads in the practice’s noteworthy education sector work.
Jenny Arrowsmith heads up Irwin Mitchell‘s national education sector group from Leeds, working with Esmat Faiz and Poppy Ford in the South East. Notable recent work examples include handling mergers, advising on the significant changes in law regarding holiday pay, and acting in trade disputes regarding pay and hours.