Clare Waller

Service area(s): Employment

Office: Cambridge

Position:Partner

Telephone:01223 532730

Email:clarewaller@hewitsons.com

Overview:

Clare is a partner in the employment team in Cambridge and advises a full range of clients on all aspects of employment law.

Experience:

Clare works with employers of all sizes and industries as well as senior executives and other individuals, advising on both contentious and non contentious aspects of employment law. This ranges from the provision of on going advice regarding disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management processes and employees statutory rights to drafting contracts of employment, service agreements and staff handbooks to representing clients before the Employment Tribunal or civil courts in cases of unfair dismissal, breach of contract, claims to enforce post termination restrictive covenants and breaches of confidentiality. Clare has experience of complex discrimination claims at first instance and in the appeal courts.

Clare designs and delivers client training on any aspect of employment law such as how to conduct disciplinary procedures as well as undertaking regular public speaking engagements and writing for a wide range of business publications.

Background:

Clare read Law at the University of Reading and achieved distinction in the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, Guildford. She trained at HRJ Law LLP in Hitchin and qualified in 1999. She obtained a Masters degree in Employment Law from the University of East Anglia in 2006. She became a Partner at HRJ in 2002 and joined Hewitsons in August 2010.