With in-depth expertise in confidentiality agreements disputes, discrimination issues, and whistleblowing cases, BDB Pitmans is lauded for its ‘personable approach’. Caroline Yarrow leads the team and is often engaged to handle employment tribunal claims, while Brian Gegg and Ian Wasserman are well versed in TUPE matters. Tim Hayes provides the team with immigration expertise.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Brian Gegg was excellent! Kind, helpful, supportive and extremely knowledgable. I trusted him and everything he said would happen did happen, in the order and time scale he said. He kept in touch with me in the evenings, early mornings and weekends - whenever I needed to hear from him and have his support. He was amazing. Just what was needed during a very stressful and upsetting time for me.’

  • ‘A very personable approach. As an individual engaging a law firm I wanted to be advised by legal experts who would guide me in a friendly and focused way. They went above and beyond, and provided very good value. Always efficient in their responses and available to move the case forwards at pace when required.’

  • ‘The individuals were clearly very good in their specialism - they balanced practicality with extensive experience, ensuring my case was managed effectively. Handovers between the team were seamless too; whoever I was dealing with was fully briefed.'

  • ‘High-quality person-centred advice.’

  • ‘Calm, knowledgeable and extensive experience of working with charities.’

Key clients

  • Association for Chief Executives in Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Caroline Yarrow

Other key lawyers

Brian Gegg, Tim Hayes, Ian Wasserman