Moira Seward (Senior Associate)

Moira is a Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 ranked senior employment solicitor, with particular strength in litigation. She regularly represents clients pursuing and defending complex claims for discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing.

Client work

Moira represents and advises individuals and employers on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She has extensive experience advising senior executive employees in negotiating sensitive and high value exits and provides day to day advice to employer clients, on all aspects of employment law.

Moira’s clients include senior executives, partners and employers, working within a broad range of industries. She regularly acts for clients within the financial and professional services, legal, tech, media, publishing, manufacturing and fashion industries.

She often advises clients who are dealing with difficult emotional circumstances and has a track record of sensitively, yet commercially, guiding clients through their employment situations, in order to reach the best possible outcome.

Moira also advises on employment contracts, consultancy agreements, settlement agreements, disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management, commission and bonus payments, business restructuring and reorganisation, data protection, confidentiality and restrictive covenants.

In the media

Moira comments regularly in the media on employment-related issues, including but not limited to being quoted in the Times, the Sunday Times, Legal Week, Women’s Health Magazine and Juriste International (UIA) and being interviewed for a Channel 4 documentary.

She regularly writes articles for external publications and gives presentations at client seminars and training events. She is a member of the International Lawyer’s network, AIJA, and recently gave presentations on: flexible and hybrid working in Dubai, whistleblowing in Amsterdam and updates on UK discrimination law during a joint webinar between AIJA and the ABA (American Bar Association). She has had articles published in many external publications such as HR Magazine, People Management, the International Employment Lawyer, the Legal Gazette, My Tamarin and the Solicitor’s Journal.

Diversity and Inclusion

Moira is passionate about equality and diversity. She founded and chairs the firm’s parents and carer’s network, volunteers to give pro bono advice to the charity ‘Working Families’ and is an expert adviser to Workingmums. She has introduced a number of internal initiatives to support working parents, such as a ‘pregnancy loss’ policy and a carer’s statement.

Prior to commencing her career in law, Moira worked in headhunting in the financial sector, in Tokyo, Japan. She also holds a BA in History and a Masters in Social Anthropology.

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