The employment practice at Brahams Dutt Badrick French LLP excels in complex and high-stakes disputes, in addition to senior exits and day-to-day matters. Led by Gareth Brahams, the team primarily caters to domestic clients in regulated professions, including the financial services and insurance industries. Nick Wilcox handles high-profile disputes, including restrictive covenants and Employment Tribunal claims. Samantha Prosser became a partner in April 2025, while Polly Rodway became a consultant for the firm.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Ability to understand our client group needs and pitch advice and learning to that group is really superb. This is typically a difficult group to penetrate and they consistently get very strong, proactive feedback. Extremely straightforward to work with and commercial. Offerings on educational webinars regarding current and upcoming legislation and/or hot topics is also highly valuable and effective. ’
  • ‘Nick Wilcox, Blair Wassman and Abdullah Ahmed. All three are excellent, knowledgeable, reassuring and friendly. In particular Blair's recall and ability to remember things has been amazing and extremely helpful in our prep.’
  • ‘Gareth Brahams - super commercial and able to set out real-life risks and reputational considerations in an attention-holding but not condescending way is pretty unique. Tom McLaughlin - practical and thorough.’
  • The team has been very dedicated to our ongoing employment tribunal. They are switched on, often going above and beyond with research and collating information that has really helped us and also our barrister get ready for a tribunal. They have shown particular strength in being able to pick up and get straight back into the particulars even with lengthy time lapses between certain parts of our ongoing tribunal.’
  • ‘Nick Wilcox is great. Clever and really engaged in legal questions as well as in client-facing work. He is great with people and a real pleasure to work with. Claire Dawson is also a standout in my view. ’
  • ‘BDBF is a team of highly skilled, dedicated employment lawyers with a high ratio of partners to associates. The quality of the team is excellent. Interesting and challenging work, and is a pleasure to deal with.’

Key clients

  • Lascaux Partners

Work highlights

Defending Lascaux, a head-hunter business operating within the hedge fund industry, and three individual Respondents in relation to the defence of (allegedly) high value and very complex Employment Tribunal proceedings for sex and race discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
Practice head

Gareth Brahams

Other key lawyers

Nick Wilcox; Claire Dawson; Blair Wassman; Tom McLaughlin; Abdullah Ahmed; Polly Rodway