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Adeeb Chowdhry

Director and Head of Business Immigration

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Adeel Abid

PRACTICE AREAS: Admiralty & Shipping laws, Aviation, Company, Insurance, Property & Rent, Family & Succession, Contract, Private Criminal Complaints, Services Laws, Law of Tort etc.

Surridge & Beecheno

Adeel Akhtar

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Adeife Omolumo

Associate

The Trusted Advisors

Adejumoke Ademola

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

AELEX

Adel Abdulhadi

Founder and Managing Partner

Al Oula Law Firm (Adel Abdulhadi & Partners)

Adel Al-Tabtabaei

Chairman

ILG International Legal Group

Adel Alasousi

Senior Associate

Meysan Partners

Adel Alsharif

Senior Attorney Adel specialized in possesses extensive experience in civil and commercial law, as well as labor law and investment law.

Tumi Law Firm

Adel Aslani-Far

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Adel Boumedad

Partner

Alvisory

Adel Wardani

Adel Wardani is a senior Attorney in the Litigation Department. Specialized in civil and commercial law, as well as labor law and investment law, he has experience in law of over 27 years.

Tumi Law Firm

Adela Nuță

Managing Associate

Baciu Partners

Adela Svingerová

Adela Svingerová is an attorney at law at BBH and has been registered with the Slovak Bar Association since 2025. She advises clients on M&A transactions and real estate projects and also focuses on the representation of creditors in insolvency proceedings. Her practice further covers civil law, corporate law and contractual matters. Adela represents clients in dispute resolution and litigation. Adela Svingerová has participated in a number of significant transactions in the Slovak and Czech markets.

BBH advokátska kancelária, s.r.o.

Adelaide de Mendonça

Medina Osorio Advogados

Adele Ashton

Adele is a defamation and privacy specialist with over 15 years of experience. She advises both claimants and defendants in relation to defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, data protection and reputation management. She also regularly provides guidance in relation to forthcoming publications. Her clients have included private individuals, companies, charities, high profile figures and sportspeople. Recent work highlights include: successfully settling privacy claims for a number of 56 Dean Street patients following the disclosure of information by the sexual health clinic; acting for three individuals in misuse of private information claims arising out of Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments by journalists to police officers and other public officials; acting for PC Toby Rowland in his high profile libel claim against Andrew Mitchell MP in relation to what became known as ‘Plebgate’; representing leading businessman Peter Cruddas in his libel action against The Sunday Times; acting for defendants Carmarthenshire County Council and its chief executive in a libel claim brought by a blogger and a successful counterclaim by the chief executive against the blogger.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Adele De Jager

Executive: Tax

Bowmans

Adele Eastman

Adele originally qualified at Farrer & Co, specialising in employment and education law. She was Secretary of the Schools Group and a regular speaker on school (independent sector) issues. Adele then spent four years at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as a Senior Policy Specialist. During this time, she gained extensive experience in the education (state - primary and secondary), child protection and mental health sectors. Adele researched and authored two CSJ policy reports: No Excuses: A Review of Educational Exclusion (published in 2011), and Enough is Enough: A report on child protection and mental health services for children and young people (published in 2014). She was a member of the Independent Review Panel appointed to advise the Department for Education on the allocation of £59M funding for families, children and young people. Following No Excuses, Adele was invited to be a member of the Office of the Children's Commissioner of England's School Exclusions Enquiry Year 2 steering group looking at illegal exclusions. During her research for Enough is Enough, she spent two years on secondment at the charity Kids Company. Having re-joined Farrer & Co, Adele specialises in child protection. She brings wider experience into the team having developed a detailed and robust understanding of education, child protection and mental health issues in the state and voluntary sector, and builds on her prior experience in the independent sector. Adele also offers a broad knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation and frameworks.

Farrer & Co

Adele Hall

Adele is a Managing Associate in our Litigation & Investigations Department and holds a qualification in Business and Legal Studies (BBLS) from University College Dublin, a Masters in Law (LLM) from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Commercial Litigation from the Law Society of Ireland. She is also on the roll of Solicitors for England and Wales.

William Fry LLP

Adele Harrison

Solicitor

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Adele Martins

Partner and Head of the Employment Department Adele deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues for a client base ranging from multinational plcs to small companies and private individuals. Adele has extensive experience of transatlantic employment issues and frequently works with foreign companies entering the UK market, drafting contracts, implementing compliance policies and providing HR support. In addition to her employer practice, Adele works extensively with senior executives negotiating contracts and exit packages. Adele sits on the LNTV Employment Legal Expert Panel.

Magrath Sheldrick LLP

Adele Matheson Mestad

Partner

BAHR

Adele Shortman

Adele has extensive quality experience advising, training and representing SME and Corporate business’ on employee relations and all ancillary employment law issues. Her expertise and insight allied to her friendly manner fosters a very good rapport with clients, so she quickly grasps their business requirements, values and culture. She focuses on the key issues. She forensically breaks cases down delivering clear and pragmatic solutions tailored to the needs of your business. She acts for a host of loyal manufacturing and retail brands, blue chip companies and SMEs. Her considerable expertise in the manufacturing and retail sectors, includes assisting them with complex change management programmes, advising, supporting and coaching teams of HR Managers in significant restructures with reputational implications for their business whilst enhancing their brand. Adele is an experienced and persuasive advocate in the Employment Tribunal. She has many successful experiences of judicial and private mediation. Adele regularly leads on bespoke training courses delivered in-company where she is an engaging presenter. Highlights include: Successfully advising, proactively supporting and coaching a team of HR Managers in harmonising and changing terms and conditions of employment of 10,000 employees. The international brand increased weekend working to 3 in 4 weekends. Removal of bonus payments and introduction of living wage foundation pay resulting in increased staff at business critical times and reducing the overall wage bill; Advising and supporting and coaching HR in significant restructure to cut 7500 jobs worldwide and 350 jobs in UK with reputational implications for the international brand resulting in a reduction in wage bill; Successfully managing capability termination of long-standing employee with significant mental health illness and numerous suicide attempts, preventing future grievances and significant liability for disability discrimination; Successfully settling multiple lurid allegations of sex discrimination which had the ability to adversely affect the reputation of a national business and saving approx. £85K in damages; Successfully advising and defending unfair dismissal and sex discrimination claims involving a longstanding employee with significant final salary pension loss saving £100k in damages Successfully advising and defended unfair dismissal claim where an employee refused to vary his working hours in accordance with the contractual flexibility clause, claiming the respondent engineered a gross misconduct conduct issue to exit him from the business. Successfully advising and defended a 6-day ET hearing relating to direct race discrimination, racial harassment and victimisation. The employee had put in a flexible working request (FWR) seeking to deviate from the hybrid working to fully remote. The employee alleged that the failure to grant the FWR was because he was a British Asian and/or that he had previously given evidence in another employee’s race discrimination case, and he had been stopped from attending management meetings. Advising on a redundancy. The HR1 was issued for a 45-day consultation with over 100 employees across the shop floor to be subject to a selection criterion devised for the exercise. Advising on the performance related exit of an employee with ADHD and depression. Recent testimonials: David Richardson - Business Segment :Systems and System Components – Indutrade - ‘We have worked closely with Adele and Weightmans for many years, always with the same great support. Adele works to give sound advice and help to resolve complex issues always giving clear advice. Adele has a great ability to listen to business difficulties to help form strategies to address issues - always with a successful outcome. I am happy to speak individually if that's helpful.’ Chris Partington Beldam Crossley Limited - Indutrade - ‘Adele Shortman and the HR rely team are first class, responding to all our HR needs and requirements, with plain English easy to understand advice, support and recommendations. We have no hesitation in recommending Weightmans to other potential clients as well as utilising additional legal services on offer such as; commercial, property, pensions and intellectual property to name a few. I fully endorse and recommend Weightmans, it’s no surprise I have Adele on speed dial!’ Carole Anderton, HR & SCM Manager, ContiTech UK Ltd Continental AG - ‘However complex a situation I find myself in as a HR Manager, Adele methodically unravels the scenario through thorough questioning and then provides pragmatic tailored guidance in the form of either written or verbal advice. To ensure my understanding and ability to apply the advice provided, Adele includes explanations of the legislation and cases that she has used to formulate the solution and provides templates and other documentation where required. In addition, Adele is proactive in keeping me up to date with any legislative changes that are applicable to our sector of manufacturing, sales and distribution plus any generic changes. I feel as though Adele is part of our business and understands our culture and most definitely works collaboratively with us to limit risks and create best practices.’

Weightmans LLP

Adele Whaley

Partner, Disputes

Greenwoods