Lewis Silkin

Employment

Co-founding the Employment practice at Lewis Silkin in 1992, I have seen it grow from two lawyers (Michael Burd and myself) to nearly two hundred workplace lawyers today. I enjoy a global practice whether working with colleagues at other Lewis Silkin offices or colleagues at Ius Laboris, the international alliance we joined in 2001. I have a particular interest in the future of work and the use of AI in the workplace. Benefitting from having run the employment division of the firm for many years, my work today includes advising other professional services firms on people strategy and issues.

Articled Denton Hall 1986; qualified 1988; solicitor Denton Hall London 1988-90; solicitor Denton Hall Hong Kong 1990-91; solicitor Lewis Silkin 1992-95; partner Lewis Silkin 1995 to date; director, trustee and management committee: Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (AIRE Centre); chair of Employment Lawyers Association working groups; publications: two books, and regular contributor to national, legal and personnel media.

English, French.

European Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Employment Lawyers Association; Ius Laboris; International Bar Association.

Ysgol Gyfun David Hughes, Menai Bridge; Leicester University (1985 LLB Law with French; 1995 LLM Law and Employment Relations); University of Strasbourg, France (1984 Diplome d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises); Harvard Law School (2014 Law Firm Management).

Welsh rugby, sport, travel to farflung places.