GQ|Littler

Firm Overview:

GQ|Littler is a leading specialist law firm for employers. The firm was founded in 2010, based on an in-house advising style matching the risk appetite of clients and fostering a culture that prioritises inclusivity and diversity.

Our business model is based solely on how best to help businesses solve employee related issues. We attract and retain top talent, provide clients with greater partner involvement and use technology solutions to provide clients with a more personal, risk-based and solutions-focused service. In delivering legal advice we see ourselves as risk managers and business consultants as much as lawyers. We seek to identify each client’s attitude to risk and internal culture and recommend practical solutions that align with these.

Over the last 13 years the firm has gone from strength to strength attracting a team of 35 top of the class lawyers in London and a growing team in Dublin. We operate as part of Littler, the world’s largest employment law firm. Littler has more than 1,700 employment lawyers practising across 28 countries worldwide.

Principal areas of work: The firm’s legal expertise covers employment (including multi-jurisdictional projects, High Court and Employment Tribunal litigation and transaction support) and we continue to develop and invest in our “one stop shop” service covering all legal issues relating to our client’s workforce including share schemes/incentives, data protection, business immigration and client training. Our client base spans a wide range of sectors including financial services, technology, healthcare, professional services, and luxury goods, in the UK and internationally.

We continue to work with a number of the US “white shoe” law firms who do not have employment law capability in London and outside the US on a range of large-scale global transactions, where we provide a single point of contact for all the global employment law issues on a deal.

The firm has particular expertise in relation to:

• Complex multi-jurisdictional HR projects
• High Court litigation related to any people issues in the workplace including disputes with contractors, restrictive covenants, confidential information, poaching and team moves
• High-value Employment Tribunal litigation including discrimination and whistle-blowing
• Employment law aspects of M&A transactions, outsourcing, insourcing and off-shoring
• Business restructuring and large-scale redundancy programmes
• Executive/senior employee hiring and firing
• Data protection & workplace technology
• Trade union, industrial relations, collective bargaining and Works Council issues
• Employee incentives and share schemes
• Business Immigration
• Mental health in the workplace
• Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• Employment law training

We are committed to:

• A balanced and diverse firm and partnership team
• A partnering style that focuses on each client’s individual risk appetite and culture
• A rewarding and liberating environment for ambitious and entrepreneurial lawyers to develop
• Top quality, partner-led advice and a single source solution provider to global businesses
• Lawyers with a proven track record of handling the most demanding and complex issues
• Alternative fee structures
• A ‘one’ approach for international projects: one work product format, one invoice, one responsible partner and one coordinated fee proposal