Employment Law Advice
Dedicated employment solicitors, personally assigned to help you handle your ER cases – no matter how complex.
Empowering employers with advice you can trust
ESP Solicitors delivers practical, commercial and solutions-based employee relations advice that brings peace of mind while saving you time and money. Our extensive experience spans a diverse clientele, including large public sector organisations, publicly listed companies, independent schools, charities, and privately-owned businesses across various industries.
ESP Solicitors consistently demonstrates excellence as a preferred supplier for employment law on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Wider Public Sector Legal Services Panel. We are proud to continue this commitment with our appointment to the successor agreement, the Public Sector Legal Services agreement (RM6240), ensuring our clients benefit from industry-leading expertise until 2026.
Solutions-based ER advice and representation
At ESP Solicitors, we strive to be more than just legal advisors; we are your effective, commercial, trusted, and essential partner. As first-class lawyers, our focus is on offering solutions to whatever ER challenges you face. Explore our comprehensive advisory services tailored to meet your unique employment law needs.
Personal legal advisory team allocated
We assign at least two highly-qualified employment lawyers to each HR client, delivering specialist employment law advice to help you manage even the most complex ER cases.
Unlimited commercially-focused advice
Our modern pricing model offers a fixed annual subscription, providing unlimited, highly commercial, and strategic advice tailored to your business needs – ensuring budget certainty.
Expert advice on a range of employment law issues
We provide expert advice on a comprehensive range of employment law issues, including but not limited to:
- Board and executive level appointments and terminations
- Commercial agents
- Data protection issues relating to employment
- Discrimination, equal pay, and diversity matters
- Drafting employment contracts and policy documents
- Handling grievances, disciplinaries, and performance management processes
- Immigration employment law
- Injunctions and interim relief
- Managing sickness and disability
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Outsourcing
- Restrictive covenants
- Restructuring
- Trade unions, European Works Councils, UK Works Councils, and other employee forums
- TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings)
- Unfair dismissal and termination of employment
- Whistleblowing
Direct contact and fast response times
Our experienced solicitors provide real-time, personalised support, working quickly to understand your business priorities and deliver swift, direct assistance.
Dynamically upskilling HR teams
Our solicitors provide guidance via phone, email, video, MyHRCases, live events, and webinars, offering accessible ways to enhance your HR team’s capabilities and ensure they are legally robust.
Representation at Employment Tribunals
From complex cases involving multiple witnesses and lengthy hearings to more straightforward one or two-day proceedings, we assist clients in defending Employment Tribunal claims. Our representation extends to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court for appealed cases. We offer transparent fees for unfair and wrongful dismissal Employment Tribunal claims. More information about our Employment Tribunal support can be found here.
Transparent fees for expert employment law advice and support
What sets us apart?
Award-winning legal team
Our legal team has supported over 700 UK organisations, ranging from smaller companies to large FTSE 100 firms, earning accolades for making a real commercial difference.
MyHRCases platform
Swiftly escalate critical legal matters via our market-leading cloud-based ER case management platform, MyHRCases, where our legal team helps you log and manage all your cases in one, easy-to-use system.
High-quality specialist advice
Our lawyers are active members of the Law Society and the Employment Lawyers Association.
We are ranked as specialist employment lawyers in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 UK guides.
Armed with high-quality, specialist employment law advice, our expert solicitors offer proactive solutions, empowering you with the guidance and support you need to manage every employee relations matter.
Crown Commercial Service Supplier
ESP Solicitors is proud to be one of 42 law firms appointed to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Public Sector Legal Services Panel (contract RM6240) for General Service Provision in England and Wales. We have been selected as a preferred supplier for employment law, with this appointment extending until 2026. Previously, we were part of the Wider Public Sector Legal Services Panel (RM3788) from October 2018 to September 2022.
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At ESP Solicitors, we understand that the quality of our relationships with clients is key to effectively managing employment law issues. We take pride in our reputation for delivering strong, high-quality commercial advice.
We focus on building lasting relationships by taking the time to understand your needs and consistently delivering high-quality service. This commitment extends to our experienced support staff, who work diligently to get to know each client, understand their business, and tailor our service to meet their individual requirements.
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Personalised employment law advice
We help busy HR professionals make a real commercial difference to their organisations by offering personalised, integrated and strategic ER solutions.
Personalised employment law advice
We help busy HR professionals make a real commercial difference to their organisations by offering personalised, integrated and strategic ER solutions.
Our team of highly regarded employment law and immigration professionals is dedicated to offering bespoke advice and supporting your specific needs.
Receive unlimited, specialist employment law advice via your own dedicated legal advisory team – helping you to tackle every ER matter, no matter how complex.
We’re here to help you spend less time tackling extensive immigration legislation and more time prioritising projects to drive.
When presented with a claim against your business, it’s vital that you have access to specialist, expert advice and employment law support to help ensure the best outcome for your.
Our highly knowledgeable team has many years of experience in supporting academies, multi-academy trusts, and leading independent schools.
Our bespoke equal pay audit assesses and reports on whether employees are being compensated lawfully and if any groups are being treated more (or less) favourably.
Parties arriving at solutions through mutual agreement via the mediation process are generally more satisfied with the outcomes and tend to feel more accountable for the decisions reached.
Our lawyers bring extensive experience to workplace investigations, handling everything from disputes between colleagues.
