Lewis Silkin

Employment, reward and immigration.

Chair of the Partnership and Partner. Advises on all aspects of employment and partnership law. Particular areas of interest include board issues, contested dismissals and redundancy, partnership issues, business transfers, employment tribunal claims and advice aimed at preventing employment disputes and ensuring compliance with statutory regulations. His practice is highly international, dealing with both UK clients' employment law needs globally and with UK issues for clients in numerous other jurisdictions.

Articled Lewis Silkin; qualified 1986; partner 1988; head of employment; president, City of Westminster Law Society 1995-96; publications: editor Croner’s ‘Managing Termination of Employment’; Croner’s ‘Discrimination Law’ looseleaf; frequent lecturer and writer on employment matters. Board of Ius Laboris, the leading alliance of global human resources lawyers of which Lewis Silkin is UK member. Regular column in Management Today.

Employment Lawyers Association; European Employment Lawyers Association; London Solicitors Litigation Association, Ius Laboris global employment law alliance , President of City of Westminster Law Society (1995-96)

Tappan Zee High School, New York (1976); Columbia University (1980 BA); Cambridge University (1982 MPhil).

Travel, fine food and wines, choral musician.