Siobhan Bishop PSL Principal Associate


Parle :  Anglais


Bureau principal :  Birmingham




Siobhan Bishop

Siobhan Bishop helps clients to manage their strategic and employee issues by delivering commercial and effective solutions. In her role as a professional support lawyer, Siobhan helps the employment, labour and equalities team to deliver the best business-oriented solutions for clients.

Employment law is a dynamic and complex area, where the commercial issues are often just as important as the legal considerations.

Siobhan helps the team to deliver the best value for money, commercial solutions based on experience, judgement and cutting edge technical knowledge. She ensures that the team has the know-how, training and resources they need to deliver great results for clients.

Siobhan keeps clients up-to-date in this fast-paced area through training, articles, podcasts, webinars and social media and she has written content for Lexis®PSL and Thomson Reuters.

Siobhan also has over 10 years' experience in a client-facing role, as an employment lawyer at the firm. She has wide ranging legal experience having worked for large private sector employers, public sector bodies, international organisations, in-house lawyers and HR professionals. Siobhan's background gives her invaluable knowledge in helping clients get to where they need to be.

Highlights

  • Delivering our highly regarded TUPE Club seminar programme for in house lawyers.
  • Thought leadership in responding to government consultations on employment issues for clients, the firm and Employment Lawyers Association (ELA).
  • Completing a successful major acquisition by a Fortune 500 company on the employment aspects of a £200 million acquisition and the subsequent reorganisation of the client's pan-European business.
  • International experience on a three-month secondment to the US and Canada working closely with local legal teams and understanding their clients' priorities.

Memberships

Siobhan's interest in the employment field extend to being an active member of the PSL Employment Network (PEN) and Employment Lawyers Association (ELA). On the corporate social responsibility side, Siobhan works with school children at work-placed training days for Enabling Enterprise, an organisation which helps to equip young people with the skills, experiences and aspirations they need to succeed in life.

TUPE club

Siobhan manages our group on LinkedIn called TUPE club. This is a network for TUPE practitioners to share experience and information, to debate topics and develop best practice. If you're an in-house lawyer, a HR professional or a commercial manager with an interest in this topic, please join our group on LinkedIn so that everyone involved can benefit from each other's perspective and experiences.