Elaine Huttley

As National Head of our Employment team, I understand the commercial realities of running a business. My role is to be a trusted advisor, providing strategic and commercial legal advice (and not a lesson on the law). I work in partnership with clients as an integral part of their own team to understand their business and their objectives. I help them to navigate their employment law and HR issues with a solutions driven approach, while mitigating risk. I advise on the full range of employment law issues, with a particular focus on large scale projects including: Support on corporate transactions Restructures Senior executive and Board issues Complex employee relations issues Employment Tribunal litigation Shareholder/employment disputes. I build long-lasting relationships with clients, and my particular strength is to understand complex areas of employment law and/or complex factual scenarios and to provide commercial driven advice (without sitting on the fence) in plain English. The Legal 500 recognises me as an expert in my field, ranking me as a Leading Partner in Employment for the West Midlands. · Irwin Mitchell