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Tiggy Clifford

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Work Department

Employment

Position

Tiggy is a trusted employment solicitor and co-founder of multi award-winning employment law firm Torque Law LLP.

Having focused on complex, strategic and high-stakes employment law issues for over 20 years, Tiggy set up Torque Law with Partner, Emma Whiting, in 2016 with a vision to do things differently. They wanted to guarantee their clients the excellent technical knowledge and expertise they’d come to expect but combine it with a deep understanding of their businesses so they could shape their service delivery around their needs.

Skip forward a few years and Tiggy and Emma are now the proud leaders of Yorkshire’s leading niche employment law practice, recognised by Legal500 for excellence in client satisfaction and ranked Band 1 by the Chambers & Partners Directory. They’ve been recognised as Niche Law Firm of the Year at the Yorkshire Legal Awards and shortlisted for Northern Powerhouse Awards alongside international law firms.

To Torque Law, being ‘client focused’ isn’t just something to claim in their firm literature. Relationships are part of their culture, their way of working and central to both their success and their clients’. The firm gathers regular client insight and uses it to develop their services, to ensure they’re evolving with their clients.

Tiggy advises businesses on all aspects of day-to-day employment law through to the most complex of restructures and tribunal claims. She works regularly with Chief Executives, General Counsel and HR professionals and understands what it takes to achieve clients’ commercial goals as efficiently and painlessly as possible.

With extensive negotiation experience under her belt, Tiggy also helps board level senior executives to negotiate new terms of employment and exit packages (under settlement agreements) in a way that gives the best personal and professional outcome.

Tiggy’s clients say:  

“Tiggy Clifford was practical and pragmatic and crunched through the key points quickly and without over labouring the minor ones” 

“She is a straight-talking, pragmatic and detail-focused lawyer who is supportive and will challenge us as a client when necessary.”

“Tiggy is a consummate professional.”

“Keen to understand our needs and talk our language, whilst also managing our expectations, Tiggy’s advice is jargon free, grounded and always focused on our end game.”

“Tiggy is excellent at getting quickly to the heart of the issue and giving pragmatic advice on the do’s and don’ts of the situation.”

‘As a boutique specialist practice, Torque is a standout in the employment law field. Both Tiggy Clifford and Emma Whiting are well-respected and extremely knowledgeable in the area of employment law and have a great following. The firm is pragmatic and looks at ways of problem solving outside litigation which appeals to me as a fan of ADR and workplace mediation.’

Career

Tiggy specialised in employment law at Rollits LLP before becoming Employment Law Partner at Denison Till.  In 2016,  Tiggy left a coveted Head of Employment role to found Torque Law.