Russell Brimelow > Lewis Silkin > Oxford, England > Lawyer Profile
Lewis Silkin Offices
KING CHARLES HOUSE
PARK END STREET
OXFORD
OX1 1JD
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Russell Brimelow
Work Department
Employment, reward and immigration.
Position
Partner specialising in all aspects of employment law, including co-ordinating mergers and TUPE transfers, drafting employment documentation, dealing with all the issues arising during employment (eg disciplinary and performance matters), director and senior terminations, working time, information and consultation issues and all aspects of tribunal work.
Career
Trained Denton Hall (now Denton Wilde Sapte); qualified 1991; senior assistant Boodle Hatfield 1994; associate 1996; partner 1997; moved to Lewis Silkin as a partner and head of Oxford office in 2004. Publications of note: weekly column for ‘Personnel Today’ for three years; a range of articles in employment journals and websites; frequent lecturer, particularly on information and consultation, working time, TUPE and other core employment issues.
Languages
Basic French; a tiny amount of Mandarin Chinese.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society; Immigration Law Practitioners Association; Ius Laboris.
Education
Wallington High School; Keble College, Oxford (1986 BA Hons Jurisprudence First Class, Rowe and Maw prize for Best Degree).
Leisure
Family, cycling, skiing, tennis, cricket, hiking, travel, playing rock jazz piano and keyboards, fishing and negotiating with his teenagers.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Hall of Fame)London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
Often instructed by studios, producers and broadcasters, the film and TV practice at Lewis Silkin is active in both contentious and non-contentious matters. On the consulting front, the group is skilled in financing, exploitation and production issues, and draws on the firm’s strong employment and immigration team to advise broadcast media companies on investigations. On the contentious side, the team particularly shines in IP protection and enforcement, as well as privacy issues, defamation and commercial disputes. Led by Cliff Fluet
and Russell Brimelow, the media team also includes Phil Rymer, a name to note for commercial and legal issues related to the film industry, and Neil Parkes, who represents broadcasters, studios and production companies in both contractual and IP disputes.