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About
Provided by Karen Baxter
Practice Areas
Karen is a partner, and head of Lewis Silkin’s Investigations and Regulatory group and sits on the Firm’s Strategy Board. She specialises in employment and partnership law, and regularly conducts complex and highly sensitive workplace investigations, alongside her advisory work.
She has a wealth of experience advising major companies and LLPs, in relation to the employment law issues they face, and she routinely conducts complex and highly sensitive investigations, both within the UK and internationally.
Karen has a diverse client base, with a particular emphasis towards advising major domestic and international law firms and other professional services organisations on all aspects of their relationships with their employees and members/partners. This includes resolving issues such as contentious team moves, the enforcement of restrictive covenants and the use of alternative dispute resolution. She also acts for senior executives and individual partners/members.
Career
Trained Lewis Silkin; qualified 2003; associate Lewis Silkin 2003-11; partner Lewis Silkin 2011 to present.
Professional Memberships
ELA; lus Laboris, Association of Partnership Practioners.
Personal
Karen is a passionate advocate of the importance of mental wellbeing and leads Lewis Silkin's mental health campaign, #ThisPlaceMinds.
Chambers Review
UK
Karen Baxter is head of the investigations and regulatory practice at Lewis Silkin. She is particularly sought after for her workplace investigations expertise, as well as her experience with discrimination and harassment claims before the Employment Tribunal.
Karen Baxter is the head of Lewis Silkin's investigations and regulatory group. She has vast experience conducting internal investigations into claims of serious misconduct and discrimination concerning leading law and accountancy practices.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is extremely thorough and detailed and I have every confidence that Karen leaves no stones unturned."
"She is extremely thorough and detailed and I have every confidence that Karen leaves no stones unturned."