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Lewis Silkin’s employment litigation team shortlisted for award at Legal Week Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Awards
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15 October 2019Lewis Silkin is delighted to announce that its market leading employment litigation team led by Toni Lorenzo and Michael Anderson has been shortlisted for Employment, Pensions and Incentives Litigation Team of the Year at the Legal Week Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Awards.
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Lewis Silkin’s award-winning rockhopper service celebrates fifth anniversary
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15 July 2019It is five years since Lewis Silkin launched rockhopper, its highly successful, fixed-fee HR support service.
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Three Lewis Silkin employment partners listed as Thought Leaders – Global Elite by Who’s Who Legal
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09 July 2019Who’s Who Legal, one of the world’s leading independent publications, has named three Lewis Silkin partners in the 2020 edition of WWL: Thought Leaders – Global Elite.
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Thirteen lawyers listed in Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom
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28 June 2019Lewis Silkin is pleased to announce that thirteen of our lawyers have been listed in the Eighth Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom.
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Lewis Silkin wins two awards at the Who’s Who Legal awards
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21 May 2019Lewis Silkin wins ‘Global Law Firm of the Year’ and Michael Burd 'Global Lawyer of the Year' at the Who’s Who Legal Awards 2019.
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Lewis Silkin wins at Legal Business Awards 2019
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01 April 2019Richard Miskella won Lawyer of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2019.
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Lewis Silkin wins award at Lexis Nexis Legal Awards
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14 March 2019Madeleine Jephcott has won the PSL/Knowledge Award at the Lexis Nexis Legal Awards 2019 for spearheading Lewis Silkin’s Future of Work initiative.
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Lewis Silkin launches new HR consultancy service in Asia-Pacific
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06 March 2019Lewis Silkin, the law firm, today announces that it will be adding HR services to its offering in the Asia Pacific region, through the firm’s Hong Kong office.
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Lewis Silkin continues to grow Dublin office with new hire
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02 January 2019Declan Groarke joins Lewis Silkin’s office in the Irish capital
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Lewis Silkin successful in Deliveroo judicial review challenge
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05 December 2018The High Court has dismissed a judicial review challenge to a finding by the Central Arbitration Committee that Deliveroo riders are not “workers”. The Court ruled that the riders are not in an “employment relationship” for the purposes of European law.
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Eight Lewis Silkin lawyers listed as Thought Leaders in employment law by Who’s Who Legal
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12 November 2018Who’s Who Legal, one of the world’s leading independent legal publications, has named eight Lewis Silkin lawyers in their first edition of Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Labour & Employment.
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Lewis Silkin joins forces with The Old Vic to tackle workplace abuse
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04 October 2018Lewis Silkin the first law firm to join The Old Vic’s new Guardians Network
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Lucy Lewis chairing Future of Work event in October
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17 September 2018We are delighted that Lucy Lewis will be chairing the next Future of Work Hub event at the London Transport Museum on 17 October 2018.
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Lewis Silkin’s rockhopper service wins Best Innovation Award
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21 June 2018rockhopper, the pioneering low-cost, fixed-fee HR and employment law service from Lewis Silkin, has won Best Innovation in this year’s Working Families Best Practice Awards.
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Lewis Silkin named ‘Law Firm of the Year for Labour, Employment & Pensions’ by Who’s Who Legal Global Guide 2018
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09 May 2018This global recognition follows last year's accolade of our employment team being named ‘the most highly nominated European firm’ by Who’s Who Legal in 2017.
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Lewis Silkin’s Head of rockhopper, Laura Farnsworth, named in the 2018 Timewise Power 50 part-time worker awards
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26 February 2018Laura Farnsworth has been named in the 2018 Timewise Power 50 awards, a roll-call of the UK’s top flexible and part-time workers who are delivering in senior roles with non-traditional working patterns.
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Lewis Silkin acted for Deliveroo in its successful defence of an application for trade union recognition by the IWGB union
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16 November 2017The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) wanted Deliveroo to recognise it for collective bargaining purposes in respect of riders in Camden and Kentish Town. The application before the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) was heard over four days in May and June 2017. The CAC held that Deliveroo riders were not “workers” for the purposes of employment law, but self-employed independent contractors, and therefore the application failed.
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The Legal 500 ranks Lewis Silkin’s employment practice in the top tier again
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16 October 2017Lewis Silkin has again achieved Legal 500 Tier 1 rankings for Employment: London and Employment: Thames Valley as well as retaining its ranking in Employment: Cardiff.
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Busting Brexit
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25 September 2017At the Shifting World Dynamics and the Evolving Workplace: Global labour law conference which will be held in Hong Kong on 6th October, James Davies from Lewis Silkin will be speaking on Busting Brexit myths in our first session.
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Lewis Silkin authors a chapter in David Liddle's 'Managing Conflict: a practical guide to resolution in the workplace’
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25 September 2017Laura Farnsworth, Partner and Laurence Mills, Associate, in our Employment, Immigration and Reward team have authored Chapter 4 of the guide: 'Managing conflict from a legal perspective'.