Miriam Bruce
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Employment
About
Provided by Miriam Bruce
Practice Areas
Miriam Bruce has been recognized in the legal directories for a number of years and is listed as a "Next Generation Partner" by Legal 500 and an “Up and Coming” Partner in Chambers UK.
Highly experienced, Miriam deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and acts for clients across a variety of sectors, including insurance, financial services, retail and manufacturing. She has a particular interest in diversity, equity and inclusion matters and has led teams on innovative and award winning multi-jurisdictional projects in this area.
Her advisory experience includes providing strategic input on issues such as: restructuring and contractual change programmes as well as business transfers (both in the UK and internationally), executive and senior level recruitment, employee data privacy, and complex investigations and related disciplinary and grievance matters. Miriam has particular experience in managing global employment law projects across a number of jurisdictions on issues including cross-border redundancies, outsourcings and the collection and storage of diversity data. She regularly advises on the employment implications of high profile administration and/or restructuring matters. Read more here>>
Miriam’s contentious experience includes acting for employers in complex Employment Tribunal hearings. She also has significant experience in both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court, dealing with high profile and high value discrimination and breach of contract claims.
Miriam speaks regularly at internal and external events on employment law related issues.
Miriam joined Mayer Brown in 2005 as a trainee and qualified in 2007.
Chambers Review
Global
Miriam Bruce is a partner at Mayer Brown who regularly advises clients from the financial services and insurance industries on the full range of employment matters. She is experienced in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Miriam is a brilliant lawyer who has an uncanny ability to simplify even the most knotty of legal dilemmas."
"Miriam is a pleasure to work with. She is a commercially astute lawyer who has an ability to apply her wide-ranging understanding of the law while recognising and balancing risks to the business."
"She is absolutely excellent - super responsive and creative in her approach."
"Miriam is a brilliant lawyer who has an uncanny ability to simplify even the most knotty of legal dilemmas."
"Miriam is a pleasure to work with. She is a commercially astute lawyer who has an ability to apply her wide-ranging understanding of the law while recognising and balancing risks to the business."
"She is absolutely excellent - super responsive and creative in her approach."