Jane Bullen, Partner, qualified in 1990 and has over 20 years of experience as an employment lawyer.

Jane advises clients in various and numerous sectors, including the airline industry, medical research, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, utilities, insurance and financial services, a number of which have businesses headquartered abroad predominately in the US. For these clients, Jane provides a central point of contact in Europe by which to provide legal services to their pan-European operations. This requires her to co-ordinate employment related projects across various jurisdictions, including mergers and acquisitions as well as reorganisations and down sizing programmes.

Although much of Jane’s practice is to provide day to day support to in-house Counsel and HR Professionals, she also has extensive experience in litigation. This covers the full range of Tribunal based claims, particularly discrimination, as well as High Court litigation primarily focused on the enforceability of post termination restrictions and protection of confidential information.

Jane also provides bespoke training sessions from her clients designed to update and empower Managers as well as the in-house Legal and HR teams.

Jane is ranked annually in Chambers and Legal 500 as an experienced, practical and commercial employment lawyer.

"She is a great counsellor and solicitor" who has "good business sense", Chambers & Partner 2012.

Jane is a member of the ELA and the EELA.

Szakmai tapasztalat

• Pursuing an application to the Court of Appeal regarding the definition of “wages” for the purposes of an unlawful deduction from wages claim for a client in the financial services sector.
• Conducting High Court litigation involving a team move to a competitor focusing on duties of good faith and fidelity, fiduciary duties and post termination obligations.
• Co-ordinating a pan-European review of terms and conditions of employment for a client based in the US.
• Project managing a pan-European outsourcing exercise involving negotiations with trade unions, employee representatives and EWC regarding transferring employees and collective redundancies.