Marie Walsh

Marie is a director at Consilia Legal and an experienced employment lawyer, a civil mediator, and a workplace mediator. Marie has acted on behalf of a wide range of clients throughout her years of practice and continues to do so. She is well known and respected amongst her peers for her straightforward no-nonsense approach to the issues and her common sense attitude when it comes to costs. Marie has exclusively practiced in the field for over two decades and now acts predominantly on behalf of businesses and senior executives in all areas of employment law including:

• Contract/Policy Drafting/Employee Handbooks
• Post termination restrictions/Restraints of Trade
• Discrimination
• Settlement agreements
• TUPE
• Disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Termination arrangements
• Managing sickness absences
• Redundancy advice
• Negotiating exit arrangements/ termination packages
• Early Conciliation
• Employment tribunal representation and advocacy
• Workplace Mediation
• Civil Mediation

Marie is a CMC-registered mediator for Workplace Mediation and Civil Mediation.

Marie’s commercial clients range in size from SMEs with around 5–25 employees to multinational organisations.

Marie has also been a visiting lecturer on postgraduate courses delivered by at least two major national educational institutions.

Marie delivers regular training and updates to CIPD North Yorkshire members, both in person and through informative webinars. Her webinars are also delivered to national and sometimes global institutions. Through her work with the CIPD, Marie has developed a good understanding of the issues HR professionals face daily and a great working relationship with them. She also delivers specific in-house training as required.

Marie is the regional representative for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Employment Lawyers Association.

She is also part of the leadership of the ELIPS scheme, which supports unrepresented parties in employment tribunal litigation and judicial mediations on a pro bono basis.

Marie is ranked individually in The Legal 500 and Chambers.

Marie has been advised that her USP is client care.