Claire is an experienced Employment Lawyer and heads up the team in our Cambridge office. She is also the Cambridge Office Partner supporting the wider office.
Claire joined the firm in March 2014 from Eversheds Sutherland in Cambridge and has always worked in East Anglia throughout her career.
Claire carries out a broad range of HR advisory work and acts as a trusted adviser to a large number of employers in the region. Claire has a particular focus on working with Schools, Colleges, Universities and other providers within the Education sector.
Claire has significant experience in handling Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal matters and has a focus on discrimination cases.
Claire leads and develops our Employment Law and HR training programme for organisations (including Volvo (now SMT) and a large number of Cambridge Colleges). She develops and delivers a wide range of employment law issues, such as Managing Employee Investigations and Equality, Diversity & Unconscious Bias.
Claire is an experienced Employment Lawyer and heads up the team in our Cambridge office. She is also the Cambridge Office Partner supporting the wider office.
Claire joined the firm in March 2014 from Eversheds Sutherland in Cambridge and has always worked in East Anglia throughout her career.
Claire carries out a broad range of HR advisory work and acts as a trusted adviser to a large number of employers in the region. Claire has a particular focus on working with Schools, Colleges, Universities and other providers within the Education sector.
Claire has significant experience in handling Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal matters and has a focus on discrimination cases.
Claire leads and develops our Employment Law and HR training programme for organisations (including Volvo (now SMT) and a large number of Cambridge Colleges). She develops and delivers a wide range of employment law issues, such as Managing Employee Investigations and Equality, Diversity & Unconscious Bias.
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Ashtons Legal LLP
95%
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82%
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95%
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81%
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This review was submitted by a verified client of Ashtons Legal LLP.
Employment
Excellent service and employment law expertise
Claire is an excellent employment lawyer and she provided me with great advice and support when I urgently needed it. Claire is friendly, approachable and very knowledgeable. All emails and calls were answered extremely promptly. Claire is super efficient, as is her Team. I would recommend Claire to anyone who needs employment law advice in a friendly, easy to understand and timely manner. Thanks Claire and Team!
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Thank you for your positive feedback. We strive to give our clients the best possible service and we are delighted that this service has been achieved.
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Excellent efficient effortless
An approach based on a depth of experience resulted in a quick and efficient process, covering all the expected implications of the agreement and a few unexpected. The process felt effortless and efficient and importantly - reassuring. Highly recommend Claire Sleep and Ashtons Legal.
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Thank you for your review. We appreciate the positive feedback you have given us and look forward to working with you in the future.
Lawrence
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Employment
Ashtons Legal; Outstanding, highly professional & Caring.
Someone once famously said, “You had me at Hello”.
From my very first call to Claire Sleep, her professionalism, persuaded, her candour, convinced, and her natural, genuine epathy, instantly gifted confidence and calm.
From that first, relatively short conversation and introduction, an issue was understood, and a simple plan and initial timeline, was put in place.
The above may seem somewhat simplistic and even emotional, however by the time and stage, where one needs to engage professional advice from Lawyer services, the above initial engagement is crucial, and so important.
And such, was the experience, when I was introduced and began to work with Blanche McDade, who like Claire, immediately understood my issue, concerns, frustrations, and need for sound, practical, and honest counsel.
Some nine months later, the issue has been successfully resolved, and I can genuinely state that I’m not sure as to how I would have managed through this difficult period without Claire and Blanche, and all at Ashton’s Legal.
There a very few professions where those who undertake the work they do, in their given field, genuinely touch, and made a difference to people’s life.
Prior to my experience with Claire, Blanche and all at Ashtons Legal, I would not necessary have put the Legal profession, and the need to engage that profession, into this category. However, through hard work, listening, empathy, supporting, and in providing sound, honest and professional, challenging guidance, Ashtons Legal have undoubtedly changed my view and perception of this profession.
Hard work, support, expert guidance and genuine empathy, come as default with Ashtons. However, what you also get, is a sense that they actually, genuinely care about you, and that in particular, when one is going through such difficult circumstances, is probably the most important thing of all.
To be able to provide outstanding, professional Service, in any industry, takes hard work, training, diligence, astute leadership, and an acute, determined, approach to process and procedure.
To be able to produce and package that, then have it provisioned by people who honestly and genuinely care about you, is something very special indeed.
I cannot thank and recommend Claire, Blanche and all at Ashtons Legal enough.
Claire and Blanche have been outstanding, and for that, I will forever be grateful.
In going through this experience, I have felt part of a Team, who have all been working hard, and in concert, to best support me and protect my legal rights. This “team ethos” was unexpected, and only serves to demonstrate how those at Ashtons operate, to ensure the client is indeed at the heart of all they do, and all they are trying to achieve.
Ashtons Legal was highly recommended to me by a friend and colleague, and I in turn, would highly recommend Ashtons Legal, to anyone.
Lawrence A.
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Thank you for your positive feedback. We strive to give our clients the best possible service and we are delighted that this service has been achieved.
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Claire's compassionate approach and competent, well thought-through advice were a real stronghold throughout a highly distressing situation. She was the voice of calm we could turn to and trust, she was able to see things from different angles and was incredibly generous with her time sharing her expertise, explaining patiently the details and next steps of what we had to do. She was reliable and quick to respond to our enquiries all the way through. Thank you.
Claire is an experienced Employment Lawyer and heads up the team in our Cambridge office. She is also the Cambridge Office Partner supporting the wider office.
Claire joined the firm in March 2014 from Eversheds Sutherland in Cambridge and has always worked in East Anglia throughout her career.
Claire carries out a broad range of HR advisory work and acts as a trusted adviser to a large number of employers in the region. Claire has a particular focus on working with Schools, Colleges, Universities and other providers within the Education sector.
Claire has significant experience in handling Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal matters and has a focus on discrimination cases.
Claire leads and develops our Employment Law and HR training programme for organisations (including Volvo (now SMT) and a large number of Cambridge Colleges). She develops and delivers a wide range of employment law issues, such as Managing Employee Investigations and Equality, Diversity & Unconscious Bias.
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