Rachel Richardson has been appointed as a director in the employment team, while Laura Menary has been appointed as a senior associate in the healthcare team.

Ms Richardson has extensive experience in all aspects of employment law and undertakes a broad mix of contentious and non-contentious matters, including complex tribunal litigation, TUPE transactions, large scale redundancy exercises as well as providing general employment law advice to businesses, PLCs, public sector bodies and SMEs.

She has over 20 years’ experience specialising in employment law and practised previously in England, prior to her relocation back to Northern Ireland.

Ms Menary defends clinicians in relation to clinical and dental negligence claims, acting on the instructions of medical defence organisations and global insurers. She also provides risk management advice to GP Surgeries and provides training to medical students and clinicians.

She has over 15 years’ experience of defending clinical and dental negligence claims on behalf of healthcare providers.