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Headquarters |
Arbor, 255 Blackfriars Road London, SE1 9AX United Kingdom |
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No. of offices | 8 |
No. of lawyers | 270 |
No. of employees | 577 (total staff) |
Key people | Jo Evans (Partner and Chair) Jo Farmer (Joint Managing Partner) Richard Miskella (Joint Managing Partner) |
Date founded | 1950 |
Company type | Limited Liability Partnership |
Website | www.lewissilkin.com |
Lewis Silkin LLP is a British law firm with offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong. [1] The firm has over 70 partners, 270 lawyers and a total staff of over 577 people. [2] Jo Evans is Lewis Silkin's current Chair of the Partnership. [3] Richard Miskella and Jo Farmer are the firm's Joint Managing Partners. [4] [5] [6]
The firm was established in 1950 in Rye Lane, Peckham, as "Lewis Silkin and Partners" by John Silkin, son of Lewis Silkin. Lewis joined the practice full-time in the 1950s after leaving the House of Commons and relinquishing some parliamentary duties he had undertaken on first becoming a peer. Lewis Silkin opened an office in Westminster in addition to the existing office in Peckham. The Westminster office specialised in planning law and development permits. [7]
In 2014, Lewis Silkin launched a fixed fee employment law service, rockhopper. [8] rockhopper won the Best Innovation in the Working Families Best Practice 2018 awards. [9]
The firm is a member of two international networks: Ius Laboris, [10] a global alliance of employment law specialist firms and The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance. [11]
The firm has taken part in charity fundraising events over the years, including the 3 Peaks Challenge in 2011, a 30-hour non-stop "Spinathon", [12] staging a pantomime in 2012 and the 24 Peaks Challenge in 2015. [13] The firm has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage employer since 2012. [14] [15]
In 2013, the firm took part in a charity shop takeover for Ty Hafan [16] and Helen and Douglas House. [17]
In 2014, the firm organised an "alternative" triathlon to raise money for Oxford Homeless Pathways. [18] In 2014, the firm was awarded Best Social Mobility Program at the Managing Partners Forum awards. [19]
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Headquarters |
Arbor, 255 Blackfriars Road London, SE1 9AX United Kingdom |
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No. of offices | 8 |
No. of lawyers | 270 |
No. of employees | 577 (total staff) |
Key people | Jo Evans (Partner and Chair) Jo Farmer (Joint Managing Partner) Richard Miskella (Joint Managing Partner) |
Date founded | 1950 |
Company type | Limited Liability Partnership |
Website | www.lewissilkin.com |
Lewis Silkin LLP is a British law firm with offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong. [1] The firm has over 70 partners, 270 lawyers and a total staff of over 577 people. [2] Jo Evans is Lewis Silkin's current Chair of the Partnership. [3] Richard Miskella and Jo Farmer are the firm's Joint Managing Partners. [4] [5] [6]
The firm was established in 1950 in Rye Lane, Peckham, as "Lewis Silkin and Partners" by John Silkin, son of Lewis Silkin. Lewis joined the practice full-time in the 1950s after leaving the House of Commons and relinquishing some parliamentary duties he had undertaken on first becoming a peer. Lewis Silkin opened an office in Westminster in addition to the existing office in Peckham. The Westminster office specialised in planning law and development permits. [7]
In 2014, Lewis Silkin launched a fixed fee employment law service, rockhopper. [8] rockhopper won the Best Innovation in the Working Families Best Practice 2018 awards. [9]
The firm is a member of two international networks: Ius Laboris, [10] a global alliance of employment law specialist firms and The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance. [11]
The firm has taken part in charity fundraising events over the years, including the 3 Peaks Challenge in 2011, a 30-hour non-stop "Spinathon", [12] staging a pantomime in 2012 and the 24 Peaks Challenge in 2015. [13] The firm has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage employer since 2012. [14] [15]
In 2013, the firm took part in a charity shop takeover for Ty Hafan [16] and Helen and Douglas House. [17]
In 2014, the firm organised an "alternative" triathlon to raise money for Oxford Homeless Pathways. [18] In 2014, the firm was awarded Best Social Mobility Program at the Managing Partners Forum awards. [19]