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Keith Corkan

Consultant
Corporate & Commercial Employment Law

Keith is an Employment Law consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the employment field, servicing a wide range of multi-nationals and executives on issues relating to breach of covenant, restraint of trade and confidentiality, cross border TUPE, international relocation, large scale restructurings, wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination claims and diversity.

Keith has an extensive gender discrimination practice and regularly acts for senior female executives in relation to diversity and discrimination claims against UK and US multinationals.

As a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and its independent legal advisor, Keith was involved with other council members in drafting and submitting to Parliament in November 2022 a command paper in support of Covid-19 being prescribed as an industrial disease in certain sectors under Social Security legislation with payment of benefits on a no-fault basis.

At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Miami in November 2022, Keith was a member of a panel which addressed the conference on obesity in the workplace and whether this qualifies as disability discrimination in various jurisdictions including the UK.

In January 2023 Keith was appointed as Ethics and Professional Issues Officer of the North American Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

Also in 2023, Keith participated in two major webinars for the Canada UK Chamber of Commerce in the UK on global supply chains including international labour standards, human rights and governance. Keith’s co-speakers were Claire Le Mouellic, a corporate partner at Woodfines and Sandro Garofalo, the lead employment counsel at Target Corporation. The session was moderated by Danny Kaufer, an employment partner at Borden Ladner Gervais. The webinar also addressed issues surrounding ESG in the UK, the EU and North America, with commentary from Keith on corporate social responsibility, risk management, workforce stability, gender rights, competitiveness and corporate success.

Keith is also a former Chair of the Diversity committee of the International Bar Association and is a regular contributor to the committee’s newsletter. Keith is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has given Employment lectures to the American Employment Lawyers Council and the New York Bar Association.

He writes extensively for the IBA's Diversity and Employment Committee newsletters on diversity and equity, gender discrimination, the gender pay gap, discrimination based on political and philosophical belief, women on boards and gender politics in the workplace.

Michelle Bruce

Consultant
Corporate & Commercial Employment Law

Keith is an Employment Law consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the employment field, servicing a wide range of multi-nationals and executives on issues relating to breach of covenant, restraint of trade and confidentiality, cross border TUPE, international relocation, large scale restructurings, wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination claims and diversity.

Keith has an extensive gender discrimination practice and regularly acts for senior female executives in relation to diversity and discrimination claims against UK and US multinationals.

As a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and its independent legal advisor, Keith was involved with other council members in drafting and submitting to Parliament in November 2022 a command paper in support of Covid-19 being prescribed as an industrial disease in certain sectors under Social Security legislation with payment of benefits on a no-fault basis.

At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Miami in November 2022, Keith was a member of a panel which addressed the conference on obesity in the workplace and whether this qualifies as disability discrimination in various jurisdictions including the UK.

In January 2023 Keith was appointed as Ethics and Professional Issues Officer of the North American Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

Also in 2023, Keith participated in two major webinars for the Canada UK Chamber of Commerce in the UK on global supply chains including international labour standards, human rights and governance. Keith’s co-speakers were Claire Le Mouellic, a corporate partner at Woodfines and Sandro Garofalo, the lead employment counsel at Target Corporation. The session was moderated by Danny Kaufer, an employment partner at Borden Ladner Gervais. The webinar also addressed issues surrounding ESG in the UK, the EU and North America, with commentary from Keith on corporate social responsibility, risk management, workforce stability, gender rights, competitiveness and corporate success.

Keith is also a former Chair of the Diversity committee of the International Bar Association and is a regular contributor to the committee’s newsletter. Keith is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has given Employment lectures to the American Employment Lawyers Council and the New York Bar Association.

He writes extensively for the IBA's Diversity and Employment Committee newsletters on diversity and equity, gender discrimination, the gender pay gap, discrimination based on political and philosophical belief, women on boards and gender politics in the workplace.

More about Michelle… 

What is the most daring/scariest thing you have done? 

Learning how to eat and breathe fire. A close second was learning to ride a joust with the knights of Middle England this year. 

Tell us something that not many people know about you? 

I have a house full of rescue animals – including a rescue cat; two street dogs from Romania and another dog that I rescued whilst on holiday in Jordan in 2019. And despite sometimes needing to use a walking stick, I have been practising Taekwon-Do for over 2 years now and became a National Champion at the ITF National Competition in October 2023.

If you weren’t a lawyer or in your current profession, what would you be doing? 

If I was not a lawyer, I would be a historian specialising in the Medieval or Tudor period.

 

 

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Amanda Ritchie

Consultant
Corporate & Commercial

Keith is an Employment Law consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the employment field, servicing a wide range of multi-nationals and executives on issues relating to breach of covenant, restraint of trade and confidentiality, cross border TUPE, international relocation, large scale restructurings, wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination claims and diversity.

Keith has an extensive gender discrimination practice and regularly acts for senior female executives in relation to diversity and discrimination claims against UK and US multinationals.

As a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and its independent legal advisor, Keith was involved with other council members in drafting and submitting to Parliament in November 2022 a command paper in support of Covid-19 being prescribed as an industrial disease in certain sectors under Social Security legislation with payment of benefits on a no-fault basis.

At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Miami in November 2022, Keith was a member of a panel which addressed the conference on obesity in the workplace and whether this qualifies as disability discrimination in various jurisdictions including the UK.

In January 2023 Keith was appointed as Ethics and Professional Issues Officer of the North American Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

Also in 2023, Keith participated in two major webinars for the Canada UK Chamber of Commerce in the UK on global supply chains including international labour standards, human rights and governance. Keith’s co-speakers were Claire Le Mouellic, a corporate partner at Woodfines and Sandro Garofalo, the lead employment counsel at Target Corporation. The session was moderated by Danny Kaufer, an employment partner at Borden Ladner Gervais. The webinar also addressed issues surrounding ESG in the UK, the EU and North America, with commentary from Keith on corporate social responsibility, risk management, workforce stability, gender rights, competitiveness and corporate success.

Keith is also a former Chair of the Diversity committee of the International Bar Association and is a regular contributor to the committee’s newsletter. Keith is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has given Employment lectures to the American Employment Lawyers Council and the New York Bar Association.

He writes extensively for the IBA's Diversity and Employment Committee newsletters on diversity and equity, gender discrimination, the gender pay gap, discrimination based on political and philosophical belief, women on boards and gender politics in the workplace.

More about Amanda…

What’s the most daring/scariest thing you have done?

I went hill walking with my family and I found myself Traversing steel cable fixed to a rock face above a fast flowing welsh river, people who know me would not think I would do such a thing but

did it!  I have also spent many a winter skiing with my family where I have felt on top of the world. 

Neil Gibbs

Consultant
Corporate & Commercial

Keith is an Employment Law consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the employment field, servicing a wide range of multi-nationals and executives on issues relating to breach of covenant, restraint of trade and confidentiality, cross border TUPE, international relocation, large scale restructurings, wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination claims and diversity.

Keith has an extensive gender discrimination practice and regularly acts for senior female executives in relation to diversity and discrimination claims against UK and US multinationals.

As a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and its independent legal advisor, Keith was involved with other council members in drafting and submitting to Parliament in November 2022 a command paper in support of Covid-19 being prescribed as an industrial disease in certain sectors under Social Security legislation with payment of benefits on a no-fault basis.

At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Miami in November 2022, Keith was a member of a panel which addressed the conference on obesity in the workplace and whether this qualifies as disability discrimination in various jurisdictions including the UK.

In January 2023 Keith was appointed as Ethics and Professional Issues Officer of the North American Regional Forum of the International Bar Association.

Also in 2023, Keith participated in two major webinars for the Canada UK Chamber of Commerce in the UK on global supply chains including international labour standards, human rights and governance. Keith’s co-speakers were Claire Le Mouellic, a corporate partner at Woodfines and Sandro Garofalo, the lead employment counsel at Target Corporation. The session was moderated by Danny Kaufer, an employment partner at Borden Ladner Gervais. The webinar also addressed issues surrounding ESG in the UK, the EU and North America, with commentary from Keith on corporate social responsibility, risk management, workforce stability, gender rights, competitiveness and corporate success.

Keith is also a former Chair of the Diversity committee of the International Bar Association and is a regular contributor to the committee’s newsletter. Keith is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has given Employment lectures to the American Employment Lawyers Council and the New York Bar Association.

He writes extensively for the IBA's Diversity and Employment Committee newsletters on diversity and equity, gender discrimination, the gender pay gap, discrimination based on political and philosophical belief, women on boards and gender politics in the workplace.

More about Neil…

What’s the most daring/scariest thing you have done?

Accepting the role of Managing Partner professionally and personally, bungee jumped from a hot air balloon.

What was your first job?

Working on a building site ferrying cement to the bricklayers – a great summer job, but not so great in the winter months.

Tell us something that not many people would know about you?

I have completed the Three Peaks challenge three times and aspire to complete Surrey Hills 100.

If you weren’t a lawyer or in your current profession, what would you be doing?

As I am quite entrepreneurial in outlook I would have founded my own business and have retired long ago!