Michael Briggs
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Employment
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About
Provided by Michael Briggs
Practice Areas
Michael is an experienced, emotionally intelligent and strategic Partner. He provides pragmatic, commercial and results-driven advice to a wide range of local and national clients on the whole spectrum of human resources and employment law.
At all times Michael works in absolute partnership with his HR and senior management client teams. He is a 'go-to' trusted adviser and gets the job done. He has significant experience in respect of complex and sensitive senior and/or group exits, redundancies and restructures; difficult absence and performance issues; whistleblowing matters; the gig economy, and also in relation to HR related data protection (including extensive data subject access requests). He also sites with the National Employment Team's IR35, Data Protection and Financial Services sub-groups.
Michael also has a particular interest in defending Employment Tribunal claims of all types and managing client relationships for varying size employers. He has received continued instruction from a client within the tyre and vehicle service industry for in excess of 15 years.
Chambers Review
UK
Michael Briggs has a well-rounded employment practice that includes advising clients on such matters as senior exits, business restructuring and training. He acts for both employers and individual employees.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Michael is responsive, understands our needs and is open to a challenge, as well as to being challenging to us."
"Michael has amazing knowledge but also understands our business, which helps hugely."
"Michael is my main go-to when I have to seek advice."
"Michael is responsive, understands our needs and is open to a challenge, as well as to being challenging to us."
"Michael has amazing knowledge but also understands our business, which helps hugely."
"Michael is my main go-to when I have to seek advice."