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Lisa Bryson

Partner

Lisa is a Partner in our employment team in Dubai. She advises on employment and equality law matters, and is also part of our UK-wide immigration team.

Lisa is an experienced employment lawyer with over 20 years experience of practice in the UK, both Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 

Lisa deals with a broad range of contentious and non-contentious work, and advises on restructuring and TUPE work, executive severances and handling high-profile employment related litigation. She is an experienced Tribunal advocate and has appeared in numerous hearings both in Northern Ireland and England. She advises clients across a broad range of sectors, with a particular interest in the financial and professional services, retail, media and telecommunications, transport and logistics, and manufacturing sectors. Her experience in these sectors in particular includes advising on complex disputes involving allegations of wrongful and/or unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and cross-grievances, negotiating senior-level exits, TUPE, collective consultation, and industrial relations. 

Lisa also has valuable in-house experience in the media/entertainment sector gained having had a 12-month secondment to one of the leading companies in this sector in the UK. During this time, Lisa was responsible for advising the various group companies on everyday HR issues, policy and procedural issues, subject access requests, immigration responsibilities, corporate restructuring and transactions (business transfers and outsourcing), complex and sensitive grievances and disputes. She also contributed to strategic planning matters and prepared advice notes for internal stakeholders.

Lisa is a member of the Eversheds Sutherland Immigration Team, which works closely with businesses  seeking to move their workforce around the globe and recruit new employees to ensure that all legal requirements are met.

She is recognised for her pragmatic and sensible approach to managing workplace relationships and issues in the context of often competing commercial, political, regulatory and reputational pressures. Chambers & Partners say, “Clients appreciate the practicality of her advice, her responsiveness, and her ability to align herself to the challenges faced by clients.”  Legal 500 notes that she is "astute, commercial and has unrivalled knowledge of the law." 

Outside of advising clients, Lisa is a regular contributor and commentator on employment law matters in Northern Ireland on regional TV and radio (including Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster and Evening Extra programmes, BBC News Northern Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland's The View programme), and in local press, including the Belfast Telegraph and the Irish Times.

Lisa's recent experience includes:

  • advising a retail bank on the impact of the Kostal decision on its annual pay negitiations with the trade union and guiding the client to a successful negotiated outcome
  • defending a complex whistleblowing and disability discrimination complaint for a regulated company arising out of alleged misuse of customer information
  • defending high profile discrimination claims issued against a media client by a senior level presenter
  • supporting a client with a collective redundancy programme arising as a result of the longer term impact of the pandemic
  • advising on the ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ provisions of an outsourcing agreement, and providing strategic guidance in relation to the TUPE related information and consultation obligations for a client in the haulage business who had lost a supermarket contract
  • advising on the EU Settlement Scheme, cross-border workers, changes to immigration and right to work checks post Brexit and in particular in relation to those habitually working across the island of Ireland.

Over her career, Lisa has presented hundreds of times at various public and client conferences on a wide range of employment law topics including TUPE, restrictive covenants and confidential information, discrimination, and Tribunal practice and procedure.

Lisa is a regular commentator on employment law issues in Northern Ireland on local radio and TV news channels.

She has also lectured on the Ulster University Post-Graduate diplima in Employment Law since 2017.

 

  • Ranked as next generation partner in Legal 500
  • The Legal 500 United Kingdom Next Generation Partner 2022
  • Member, Employment Lawyers Group in Northern Ireland
  • Member, Employment Lawyers Association of England & Wales
  • Member, CBI's Employment and Working Affairs Committee in Northern Ireland
  • Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School, 1997-1998
  • LLB (Hons) Law, Nottingham Law School, 1993-1997
Lisa Bryson

Partner

Lisa Bryson

Partner

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