David Poddington > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile

David Poddington

0203 319 3700 [email protected]

Work Department

Human Resources: Employment, Employees and Senior Executives

Position

David has specialised in employment law for nearly twenty years and has comprehensive experience in advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law and industrial relations issues. He has particular expertise in organisational change including collective redundancies, changing terms and conditions of employment, and the application of the TUPE Regulations. David advises well-known brands in the engineering, energy, media, advertising, education and leisure sectors.
As well as mainstream employment law advice, David has significant experience in advising on data protection and on the interrelationship between pension issues and the employment relationship.
David is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and is recognised as a leading individual in employment law by the Legal 500.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• All day-to-day HR advice (e.g. disciplinary, grievance and absence issues)
• Contractual disputes
• TUPE and outsourcing
• Reorganisation and collective issues
• Drafting contracts, directors’ service agreements and staff handbooks
• Employment Tribunal claims
• Restrictive covenants and confidentiality
• Discrimination and equality issues
• Executive severance and settlement agreements
• Employment issues on corporate transactions
• Employment and HR training
• Advice on LLP member issues
• Data protection

Career

Qualified as a solicitor in 1998 at Anthony Gold, joined Keystone in 2016