Katie Lancaster is 'knowledgeable about the law, goes the extra mile for her clients and is enormously dedicated,' sources say. She advises a wide range of clients on matters including TUPE and redundancies.
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Katie is a partner in the Employment Team.
In addition to her extensive employment practice (which covers senior executives, international oil and gas companies, national sports bodies, banks, independent schools, universities, national museums and charities), Katie also advises schools on the full range of child protection, pupil disciplinary and parental dispute work.
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Katie advises a wide range of sports clients on employment-related matters. She has extensive experience of contentious and non-contentious matters. Katie has advised on a number of high-profile appointments and dismissals and on the introduction of “home grown player” rules, in addition to large-scale restructures of sports organisations, discrimination cases, organisation-wide contract reviews, collective redundancies and TUPE transfers.
She regularly conducts seminars and lectures for sports organisations on employment and child protection issues and runs seminars in-house for HR directors of sports bodies. Over the past year, these have focussed mainly on equality issues and the safeguarding vulnerable groups legislation.
Go to Sports organisations Katie has extensive experience of advising higher education clients on employment law issues. She advises on contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including large-scale restructuring, collective redundancies and TUPE transfers for higher education institutions.
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