Freeth Cartwright strengthens Birmingham team
THE Birmingham office of Freeth Cartwright has boosted its senior team with the appointments of employment lawyers Rebecca Sawbridge, who will head up the Colmore Row-based employment practice, and senior associate Philip Pepper.
Ms Sawbridge joins from rival firm Shoosmiths, where she was a partner and employment team head. She has over a decade’s experience in the region, including spells at the Birmingham office of Eversheds as well as Wragge & Co, where she spent five years advising on employment-related issues.
She has advised on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, including wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination law, TUPE and large-scale reorganisations. In recent years her clients have included Debenhams, Starbucks and Marks & Spencer.
Her responsibilities at Freeth Cartwright will include a leading role on the firm’s national FC Retail advisory team.
Philip Pepper joins the firm from Weightmans, where he worked out of both the Birmingham and Leicester offices. He has acted for public and private sector clients and specialisms include TUPE, discrimination, advocacy in employment tribunals as well as industrial actions such as strikes and other forms of dispute.
His new role will include developing employment law services for public sector clients and supporting Freeth Cartwright’s appointment to the West Midlands legal panel advising local authority members on employment issues.
Richard Beverley, Freeth Cartwright’s Birmingham managing partner, said: “These senior appointments will further strengthen an employment team which is already one of the most comprehensive in the Midlands.”
