Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Employment & Labour

Associate Director

Jackie is a highly experienced employment lawyer who advises on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Her contentious advice focuses on complex disputes including discrimination claims, claims which involve multi-jurisdictional issues and business protection cases arising from team moves and the enforcement of post-termination restrictions. She represents employers in both the Employment Tribunal and the High Court.

Jackie also provides clients with strategic commercial advice on non-contentious issues including business restructuring; grievance and disciplinary processes; and on the employment aspects of corporate transactions.

Jackie has particular experience in advising in the financial services sector and she works closely with the Financial Services Disputes & Investigations group advising on matters with interlinking employment and regulatory issues, including remuneration, whistleblowing investigations and conduct/culture issues. Jackie also has experience in contentious partnership matters, advising professional services firms on entry and exit arrangements and on disputes.

Jackie is a member of the Employment Investigations group and has advised on internal investigations and acted as an independent grievance investigator on a number of employment investigations. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.