GQ|Littler is the leading employment law firm for employers in the UK and Ireland. We offer risk-based advice and litigation services on employment, immigration, employee tax and incentives issues. We work globally as part of Littler, the world’s largest employment law firm with more than 1,700 lawyers practising across 28 countries in over 100 offices.
Our team can advise on the full range of employment law issues from difficult day-to-day issues to highly complex business restructures.
We offer a practical service to address the frustrations businesses often experience when they get discursive and overly-academic legal advice without any clear recommendations.
In the real world, we think that employment law issues have three equally important elements:
We factor all these elements into our thinking to deliver holistic, user-friendly advice that is delivered in an in-house style and focused on achieving your desired outcome. This is what “commercial advice” means to us.
Risk management is fundamental to this approach - we invest time in understanding each client’s HR risk profile and culture and we have developed our own online HR Risk Indicator, which provides an immediate snapshot of an organisation’s risk appetite and benchmarks how different decision-makers understand the organisation’s approach to HR risk.
Our lawyers have advised on the people aspects of some of the most challenging and complex issues and projects, including:
We are adept at helping businesses to resolve difficult staffing issues. Our experience includes:
Issues relating to senior executives are particularly sensitive. Our team has extensive experience including:
Advising businesses on general employment law developments and periodic review of core employment documentation (including handbooks and contracts) is a core part of our service. Recent experience includes:
'A boutique firm that has the expertise and coverage of a city firm and is equally adept at employment tribunal and high court litigation as well as non-contentious advisory work. GQ|Littler has recently increased its capacity in the M&A sphere and is excellent on cross-border matters.’
Legal 500, 2023
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