Lucy Bloom
"Lucy’s passion for what she does shines through in every interaction" - recent client
Lucy has a wealth of experience advising both employers and senior executives on all aspects of employment law, including advisory, transactional and contentious work. She prides herself on providing straightforward, commercial and strategic advice.
Lucy regularly works with HR Directors, General Counsel and Board Members of SMEs and large companies to provide practical and creative legal solutions to their specific business requirements. She has particular expertise in advising clients on managing workplace conflicts, including navigating complex grievance and disciplinary processes, redundancy exercises, TUPE, changing terms and conditions of employment and ill health in the workplace.
Lucy is a highly experienced litigator, advising and representing both employers and senior employees in high value Employment Tribunal proceedings including unfair dismissal, discrimination, harassment and victimisation in the workplace.
Lucy’s clients come from a wide range of sectors, ranging from financial services to hospitality and luxury lifestyle.
Lucy also acts for senior executives on grievance and disciplinary issues, discrimination and contract and restrictive covenant matters. She has significant experience advising senior executives on managing their exits and valuable severance negotiations. Lucy recognises the importance of providing pragmatic, solutions led advice in circumstances which can often be emotionally charged and highly sensitive.
Lucy regularly provides bespoke training to her employer clients, has written a variety of articles and enjoys presenting at seminars.
Outside of work Lucy enjoys spending time with her young son, trampolining and HIIT training.
HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL
FINANCIAL SERVICES BUSINESS
“Lucy’s wise counsel and excellent judgement is always well received and gives us confidence that we are in the right hands. Thorough prep, excellent briefings, tactical awareness, and being able to tap the right specialist expertise at the right times are all hugely valuable.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY BUSINESS
“Lucy understands the needs of our business and importantly is always available to give advice and support at short notice.”
PARTNER AT UK ACCOUNTANCY FIRM
“Lucy’s commercial judgement and communication is outstanding. The advice we received was always well-thought through and pragmatic and we always knew we were in safe hands as we went through the process of acquiring a business and agreeing a number of senior executive appointments. We valued her input tremendously.”
GENERAL COUNSEL OF A
FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
“We worked with Lucy on constructing and delivering line manager training and revisions to our Staff Handbook which was well-received by all the managers in our business.”
SENIOR EXECUTIVE AT A GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPANY
“From the moment we engaged Lucy, she instilled the sense of security that is so important in order to gain the trust of a person who to a large extent has lost their sense of right and wrong. When we weren’t sure about the very blurry lines between banter and ridicule, between humour and shame Lucy made sure to point us right back to justice and honour and dignity, from the onset it wasn’t possible to doubt that what had been endured was unacceptable on every level and needed to be brought to justice.
Lucy’s passion for what she does shines through in every interaction and this drove us, it was easy to be guided by her because she wears her values on her sleeve and therefore if something doesn’t align she is quick to point it out.
Finally, we want to thank Lucy for doing all the above without losing her sense of humour and personable approach, I’m sure it’s a very fine line which she seems to have mastered.”
GLOBAL HR DIRECTOR OF
A TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS