Bio
Karen is an Employment Partner.
Karen provides commercially- focused advice to businesses and individuals across the full range of employment law matters, helping clients navigate complex workplace issues with confidence, and balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
She advises on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management, redundancies and restructures, employment contracts, restrictive covenants, discrimination claims, whistleblowing, and senior executive exits.
Karen works closely with employers to develop proactive people strategies, helping them manage workplace challenges while nurturing positive employee relations. She also represents clients in Employment Tribunal proceedings, providing support from the earliest stages of a dispute through to resolution.
Examples of Karen’s work include:
- Overseeing senior executive exit negotiations from early-stage discussions with the business to concrete plans and exit strategies following through from first offers to negotiation to reaching a binding legal agreement.
- Advising on larger-scale restructures and redundancy consultations.
- Acting for employees who face disciplinary investigation, or who have raised grievances and are concerned that they are being exited out of the business.
- Advising a charity on a complex whistleblowing complaint and the management of the employee whilst the complaint is being investigated to ensure support for the employee while balancing the needs of the charity to provide services for the service users.
- Advising another client on a complex tribunal dispute where having been successful in achieving a settlement.