Lawyers

Lisa Coleman

GQ | LITTLER, London

Work Department

GQ|Littler is the leading employment law firm for employers in the UK and Ireland. We offer risk-based advice and litigation services on employment, immigration, employee tax and incentives issues. We work globally as part of Littler, the world's largest employment law firm with over 1,800 lawyers in 100 offices worldwide. Being part of Littler enables the firm to seamlessly provide high-quality advice and support across a wide range of international markets and benefit from cutting-edge technology, research and knowledge management resources.

Career

Lisa joined GQ|Littler in March 2017 as an associate, following the completion of her training contract at Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She was promoted to Senior Associate in 2021.

Memberships

Member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Position

Lisa is a Senior Associate at GQ|Littler. She works across all areas of employment law focusing mainly on day-to-day advisory work and litigation support.

Lisa has significant experience in defending high value and complex litigation, particularly in leading on strategic decisions on long-running disputes. She has particular expertise and interest in discrimination, sexual harassment and whistleblowing cases, often where claimants are seeking multiple millions of pounds in remedy, as well as experience in High Court proceedings for breach of contract. She is particularly interested in discrimination claims and regularly supports clients with difficult employee grievances, disciplinaries, redundancies and employee exits.

She also specialises in advising on data protection issues and has experience in managing and responding to data subject access requests and helping employers comply with their data protection obligations. Additionally, she has provided various training sessions to clients on this topic and has developed guides and step-plans to support employers with compliance.

Lisa regularly provides support on day-to-day matters such as advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants, carrying out employment contract and handbook audits and coordinating the roll out of global contracts.

Lisa also plays a key role in the firm’s CSR efforts and holds the relationship with the London Legal Support Trust and encourages the team to get involved in charitable initiatives such as the London Legal Walk, Great Legal Bake Off and annual pub quiz. She also regularly volunteers at the Bethnal Green Pro Bono Clinic.

Education

2011 - 2014: Bachelor of laws (LLB) - University of Reading

2014 - 2015: Accelerated Legal Practice Course - BPP