Bellevue Law

Leigh is a specialist employment lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising both employers and individuals on the full range of UK employment and HR matters. She advises clients across a wide range of industries, with particular expertise in the financial services and biotech sectors.

She supports employer clients with everything from day-to-day employee relations to recruitment, restructures, redundancies, large-scale contract changes, as well as complex exits, grievances and disputes – always with a clear, calm and commercial approach. She advises start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs and large corporates, and has worked for global businesses and financial institutions. Leigh enjoys developing her understanding of clients’ particular business needs and working as an extension of their HR function or management team.

Leigh also works with individuals, senior executives, directors and LLP partners to review and negotiate job offers, navigate post termination restrictions, to deal with workplace issues, to enforce legal rights in the Employment Tribunal/ court, and to negotiate complex exits. She enjoys working with individuals to get the right result for them, and supporting them through what is often a difficult time.

All clients get the benefit of Leigh’s extensive experience on both sides of the table, acting for employers and employees.

Clients regularly highlight her ability to balance deep legal expertise with emotional intelligence and business context.

Leigh is also described by clients as:

“Better than brilliant!”

“Responsive, knowledgeable, empathetic and takes time to understand the specific business situation to which the legal work relates.”

She has been ranked in Chambers & Partners for the last four years, most recently in the 2025 UK guide, and in The Legal 500 directories from 2021 to 2024 last year.

The Legal 500 also consistently praises Leigh’s empathetic and pragmatic style:

“Very knowledgeable, experienced, pragmatic, and empathetic… excellent at anticipating potential outcomes… so we could put forward solutions or offers that had the best chance of working for all parties.”

‘We work exclusively with Leigh Edgar who is a delight to work with, highly responsive and efficient. We feel we are in safe hands.’ – Legal 500, 2024

While the Chambers UK Guide 2025 highlights that:

“Leigh was excellent from start to finish. She was passionate, transparent and most importantly showed empathy.”

“She’s extremely knowledgeable and always ready to go the extra mile to help us.”

“Leigh managed to combine professionalism and expertise with deep empathy and kindness.”

While previous editions of Chambers describe her as:

“…really switched on commercially with excellent interpersonal skills. She builds empathy quickly and delivers advice in clear terms on law, process and strategy. Leigh has your back.”

“Responsive, flexible, commercial and provides clear advice.”

“She is exceptional… a very good communicator… I felt extremely well supported by her during a very difficult time.”

“She is outstanding in developing a unique and personalised approach to dealing with clients.”

Leigh trained and qualified at Gouldens (now Jones Day), later moving to Simmons & Simmons’ award-winning employment law team in Hong Kong (where she qualified as a Hong Kong lawyer) and then to work in the leading employment law practice of Eversheds Sutherland. She also volunteers as an advisor on the Rights of Women sexual harassment at work helpline, reflecting her ongoing commitment to equality and access to justice.