Joan Pettingill > gunnercooke LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
gunnercooke LLP Offices
10-12 East Parade
Leeds
LS1 2BH
England
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Joan Pettingill
Work Department
Employment
Position
Partner
Career
Joan is a highly experienced expert in all areas of employment law.
Approachable, friendly, and unstuffy, Joan delivers winning solutions placing you in the very best negotiating position for your situation. She often advises on matters where reputational issues need careful management.
Joan is a trusted adviser both with ongoing strategic projects and with one-off matters and day-to-day ad hoc advice.
Having worked in-house in financial services, Joan has a very commercial no-nonsense approach that keeps the client’s objectives at the fore. She also advises leadership teams on their terms of entry to a business via an MBO or in relation to their exit arrangements including restrictive covenants.
Joan is extremely experienced in restructuring workforces, whether through redundancies, reorganisation of roles, changing job descriptions, contract terms, or changing working practices. She is experienced in all kinds of staff change management in particular where there are TUPE issues on business transfers including service provision changes.
Joan has particular experience assisting employers where there may be particularly difficult issues of suspected criminality such as fraud or potential abuse of others by staff or where there may be a safeguarding or professional disciplinary angle to also take into account.
Previous Law Firms
- Wake Smith Solicitors (Director & Head of Employment & HR Services 2020–21)
- Lupton Fawcett LLP (Partner, Employment Law Team 2014–20)
- HLW Keeble Hawson LLP (now Knights plc) (Partner, Employment Law Team 2007–14)
- Gordons (Solicitor 2001–07)
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
Gunnercooke LLP is noted for its breadth of practice, and acts for both employers and employees on the full range of employment matters at a national and global level. Jo Tindall and Joan Pettingill have extensive experience regarding high-level, strategic and complex employment matters, while Mini Setty advises both large and small businesses, and Angela Brumpton has significant experience in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims at the Employment Tribunal. Ed Jenneson is especially knowledgeable on the Equality Act and collective disputes involving trade unions, while Paul Menham is particularly noted for his work on employment matters related to the education sector.