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Katie is an employment law specialist, with experience representing clients across a range of sectors. Her practice focuses on contentious employment law, providing comprehensive support to clients in complex employment disputes. She demonstrates a keen understanding of the legal frameworks around employment litigation in the England and Wales, and Scottish Tribunals. Katie consistently delivers strategic solutions tailored to her client's needs. 

Katie regularly supports clients through complex workplace disputes, ranging from unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment and whistleblowing complaints. Katie's expertise in contentious work ensures that her clients receive robust advice and practical guidance to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively.

Katie's proactive approach assists clients in achieving favourable outcomes, ensuring that businesses are not only compliant with relevant duties under employment legislation and codes of practice but also ensuring that clients are well positioned to mitigate risks associated with employment disputes. 

During her career, Katie has worked with a variety of commercial clients, ranging from small and medium enterprises to large multinational conglomerates with employees across multiple jurisdictions. This enables her to tailor her approach to each client, considering their individual business needs. 

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CV

Since 2025 Employment Adviser, Taylor Wessing
2023 - 2025 Employment Paralegal, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2023 Litigation Executive, Peninsula UK
2021 - 2022 HR Recruitment Advisor, Peninsula UK
2023 LLM degree, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
2018 PGCert, Leadership and Digital Marketing (LJMU)
2017 BA(Hons) Criminology (LJMU)

Career

Since 2025 Employment Adviser, Taylor Wessing
2023 - 2025 Employment Paralegal, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2023 Litigation Executive, Peninsula UK
2021 - 2022 HR Recruitment Advisor, Peninsula UK

Education

2023 LLM degree, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
2018 PGCert, Leadership and Digital Marketing (LJMU)
2017 BA(Hons) Criminology (LJMU)

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