Career & Experience
Joanne is an employment lawyer specialising in providing practical strategic advice and dealing with complex employment tribunal litigation including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing on behalf of large multisite clients. She also has a range of commercial experience, including transactional, strategic and day-to-day human resources support and has developed a niche for delivering management development training programmes in an innovative way.
She advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters including advising employers on issues such as complex organisational restructures, enforcement of restrictive covenants in the High Court, corporate support for all aspects of acquisitions and disposals including the effect of TUPE and regularly provides practical advice on redundancy programmes – always taking into account a client’s commercial considerations. Joanne also specialises in providing employment law support in the restructuring and insolvency sphere, working seamlessly with the wider team.
Joanne is regularly called upon by a number of clients considering change management programmes including business reorganisations and bringing about cultural change. Joanne has delivered a number of cultural change programmes, including some around diversity and inclusion, to assist companies to get the best out of their talent and build a more sustainable workforce.
A lover of cycling, Joanne has cycled the Danube across Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary! She also enjoys playing the violin.
Accolades
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
Career & Experience
Joanne is an employment lawyer specialising in providing practical strategic advice and dealing with complex employment tribunal litigation including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing on behalf of large multisite clients. She also has a range of commercial experience, including transactional, strategic and day-to-day human resources support and has developed a niche for delivering management development training programmes in an innovative way.
She advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters including advising employers on issues such as complex organisational restructures, enforcement of restrictive covenants in the High Court, corporate support for all aspects of acquisitions and disposals including the effect of TUPE and regularly provides practical advice on redundancy programmes – always taking into account a client’s commercial considerations. Joanne also specialises in providing employment law support in the restructuring and insolvency sphere, working seamlessly with the wider team.
Joanne is regularly called upon by a number of clients considering change management programmes including business reorganisations and bringing about cultural change. Joanne has delivered a number of cultural change programmes, including some around diversity and inclusion, to assist companies to get the best out of their talent and build a more sustainable workforce.
A lover of cycling, Joanne has cycled the Danube across Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary! She also enjoys playing the violin.
Accolades
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
Expertise
- Change management and cultural change programmes
- Complex organisational restructures
- Enforcement of restrictive covenants in the High Court
- Corporate support for all aspects of acquisitions and disposals including the effect of TUPE
- Strategic advice on how best to deal with complex HR situations
- Employment tribunal litigation including unfair dismissal, sex, race and disability discrimination
- Restructuring and Insolvency pragmatic support
