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Senior Associate Solicitor
Helen is a Senior Associate Solicitor at Collingwood Legal, she is a highly experienced and skilled employment solicitor. Helen qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and spent 9 years specialising in employment law in a large commercial firm in Newcastle upon Tyne before joining Collingwood Legal in 2018.
Helen is recognised as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 UK rankings.
Examples of Helen’s experience include:
Advising and acting for a broad range of clients, ranging from individuals and small start-up businesses to multi-national public limited companies.
Representing clients in numerous Employment Tribunal cases involving claims of unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination, TUPE transfers and contractual disputes.
Supporting and advising clients through disciplinary and grievance matters.
Providing practical day to day advice to employers on statutory and contractual obligations in the workplace.
Providing comprehensive and tailored advice to employers on their TUPE obligations upon transfer of a business or contract.
Advising upon and negotiating numerous settlement exit deals and agreements.
PLC Software Company (2007-2013) – successfully managed a long running procedurally complex unfair dismissal claim by the former Group Financial Accountant.
Retail sector Respondent (2010) – redundancy case – successfully defended the claim and achieving a costs order against the Claimant.
Helen enjoys spending time with her family, doing crafts and baking with her daughters, and likes to wind down with a good film or box set, and nice glass of wine.
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