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Browne Jacobson LLP Offices
15TH FLOOR
6 BEVIS MARKS
LONDON
EC3A 7BA
England
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Heather Mitchell
Work Department
Business and Professional Risk
Position
Heather leads the employment law side of the firm’s successful education sector practice. She is an Associate in the London’s employment team, having been at the firm for over eight years. Heather has extensive experience in providing strategic advice to large Multi Academy Trusts on complex staffing matters. She specialises in advice to senior teams on resolving high profile staffing matters as well as large scale restructures and representing her clients at the Employment Tribunal.
She speaks regularly at national conferences including those of the Association of School and College Leaders, Freedom and Autonomy for Schools – National Association, the National Association of School Business Management, Optimus and the Academies Finance Directors ‘Super 10’ forum
Career
Heather, employment partner, has dedicated her 15 year career to advising schools and academies. She leads the education team’s employment practice.
Her pragmatic style and experience as an Academy Governor herself means she works in partnership with boards and leadership teams to manage strategically and sensitively the most high stakes of cases.
Her areas of expertise include high profile employment matters, large scale restructures, managing industrial action, claims of sexual harassment against senior staff, complex race discrimination tribunal claims and advising on complex TUPE outsourcings (including the pensions implications).
Education
- Solicitor – admitted September 2009
- LPC – Nottingham Law School
- LLB – Warwick University
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Public sector > Local government
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech