John Marshall is an expert in all aspects of employment and partnership law - both contentious and non-contentious. Acting only for individuals, he often handles complex multimillion-pound deals and employment litigation across several legal jurisdictions. During his career he has dealt with executive contract negotiation and drafting and devised and rolled out global employment policies and procedures, providing training on implementation. John’s practice includes High Court litigation concerning the enforcement of restrictive covenants, interpretation of contractual terms, implied terms, penalty clauses, and the assessment of damages. He also handles a number of employment tribunal claims, many involving whistleblowing and discrimination.
Wendi Lazar is a partner at Outten & Golden LLP in New York where she co-heads the firm’s Individual Practice and the Executives and Professionals Practice Group. Ms. Lazar practices in many areas of employment law with a focus on executive agreements, including retention, expatriate, non-competition, talent, severance, and compensation arrangements. She also represents teams of executives, founders, and partners transitioning during a sale, merger and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Lazar’s practice is international in scope, and she advises clients and attorneys in the U.S. and abroad on employment, contract, and often related equity agreements. She also represents law partners and associates, accounting professionals, doctors and medical practitioners in all transactional matters.
Ms. Lazar writes and regularly lectures on employment issues to bar associations and industry groups and has had numerous legal articles and book chapters published. She actively serves as an executive member of the NYSBA Labor & Employment Section, the ABA Commission on Women, and the Labor & Employment Section’s International Committee.
Martindale-Hubbell recognizes Ms. Lazar as an AV “Preeminent” rated attorney. She has been listed by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Lawdragon 500. Ms. Lazar was elected as a Fellow to the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. She is also a Board Member of Work Life Law, UC Hastings College of the Law.
Outten & Golden focuses on a global scale on advising and representing individuals in employment, partnership, and related workplace matters. The firm counsels individuals on employment and severance agreements; handles complex compensation and benefits issues, and advises professional partners (including accountants, doctors, and lawyers) with contractual and ethical issues. It also represents employees with a wide variety of claims, including discrimination and harassment based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, disability, national origin, religion, and age, as well as retaliation, whistleblower, and contract claims.
Outten & Golden is also at the forefront of family leave issues and veterans’ workplace rights. The firm handles some of the largest class action and impact litigations in the United States involving a wide range of employment issues, including economic exploitation, gender- and race-based harassment and discrimination, wage-and-hour violations, violations of the WARN Act, and other systemic workers' rights issues.
The firm is dedicated to representing employees and other individuals (including executives, partners, and talent), not employers, in all industries, all professions, and at all employment levels. As advocates for workplace fairness, the firm’s mission is to help advance the goals of employees and protect their rights against injustices in the workplace.
Outten & Golden’s attorneys advise and represent clients in matters involving former employers, current employers, and potential future employers. We also represent groups of employees collectively, as well as executive teams in transition. The firm’s international practice reaches across borders to represent and protect multinational employees.
Cristiano Cominotto is a Founding Partner of AL - Assistenza Leglae. His practice focuses on advising executives, managers, and employees on a range of employment and labour matters including: the drafting and negotiation of employment contracts, executive benefits, mobbing, discrimination, health & safety, pensions, private health insurance, severance packages, unfair dismissals, and work permits for foreign nationals working in Italy.
Experience Profile
Claire is an Employment and Partnership Lawyer at Slater and Gordon Lawyers in London.
Claire’s practice encompasses all aspects of employment law - both contentious and non-contentious - for a wide range of individuals.
She regularly advises on severance terms, exit packages, service agreements and contracts, particularly for directors and senior executives.
Claire acts for clients who have unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal as well as handling High Court disputes involving breach of contract, team moves and post-termination restrictions.
Claire has run a number of complex and high value disability discrimination and age discrimination claims. She has particular experience advising clients with physical disabilities, degenerative conditions and mental health problems and in disputes which involve applications for permanent health insurance and long-term disability benefits. She also regularly acts for women who are concerned about their treatment when pregnant or on return from maternity leave.
She advises doctors, including consultants and GPs, in relation to employment disputes with both the NHS and private employers.
She has considerable experience advising groups of elected employee representatives in collective redundancy situations.
Claire is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on Employment Law issues and is often asked to comment in the print and broadcast media.
Elizabeth Thompson assists Claire on her cases and their details can be found here: https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/our-experts/elizabeth-thompson/
Expertise
• Disability Discrimination
• Age Discrimination
• Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination
• Whistleblowing
• Permanent Health Insurance
• NHS employees
Commendations from independent legal directories
• Chambers and Partners 2017: Claire is praised for fighting her client's corner and for being pragmatic and a good communicator.
• Claire is listed as one of the world's leading practitioners in Employment Law in Who's Who Legal 2016.
• Chambers and Partners 2016: Claire is an "extremely effective" adviser.
Claire is ranked as a notable practitioner in the Chambers & Partners 2015 UK legal directory.
• Claire is recommended by the Legal 500 Guide 2015 as an employment lawyer who has “an excellent knowledge of discrimination law”.
Notable cases (settled confidentially)
• Representing a number of senior executives in Age Discrimination claims resulting in high value settlements;
• A complex Disability Discrimination claim resulting in a favourable settlement for our client;
• A Maternity and Sex Discrimination claim for a senior banker.
Career History
• Claire has been with Slater and Gordon (and its predecessor firm Russell Jones & Walker) since 2005. Prior to that, she trained at and qualified into the Employment team at Hammonds (now Squire Patton Boggs).
Professional Memberships
• Employment Lawyers Association
• Discrimination Law Association
• London Irish Lawyers Association
Testimonials
• “Claire…We cannot thank you enough for all your support and advice over the course of last few months. You really kept us focused on the right things.” Anonymous, November 2014
• “Many thanks for your excellent, professional help on this. You've provided advice which has been clear, thorough and tactful. You have helped me a great deal through a difficult process and this is hugely appreciated.” Senior Executive Client, London
Clive is an expert in employment and partnership law, with particular expertise advising individuals on contentious exits, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, often within the financial sector and professional services. In addition, he has extensive experience advising senior individuals in the media sector.
Throughout his career, Clive has gained outstanding results and is well known for representing female senior executives and partners on discrimination cases relating to hostility faced as they seek to advance their careers, for example after maternity leave. He also acts for partners, and partnerships, in profit share disputes or in respect of individuals moving between firms.
Clive advises on both domestic and international cases with cross-border issues and has expertise in dealing with US whistleblowing ‘bounty’ claims. He frequently works alongside several of the top US firms in this area, and helps clients who have a US element to their claim take advantage of the favourable compensation that is available under US law.
Jim McDonald is a no-nonsense labour lawyer, representing employees in a wide variety of employment law matters. This includes advising managers and other employees on negotiating employment contracts and dealing with their particular and unique workplace problems. He counsels individuals whose employment has been terminated about their severance entitlements regardless of how complicated or straightforward those entitlements might be, and he is not reluctant to litigate with employers when his clients aren’t satisfied with what the employer is prepared to offer.
