Speaker Profiles

Jenny Arrowsmith

Associate – Employment

Jenny has extensive experience advising employers of all sizes and across many diverse sectors, she provides strategic HR and employment law advice to clients on all aspects of employment issues including large scale redundancy and restructuring programmes, complex disciplinary and grievance issues, absence and performance management, contractual changes, discrimination, TUPE and restrictive covenants. She is experienced in dealing with multi party cases including those on holiday pay, currently responding on over 200 claims relating to holiday overtime payments.

She is adept at explaining legal issues to managers at all levels and always ensures that a clear, practical outcome is identified for the client. She is solutions focussed and commercial in the advice she gives.

Jenny regularly presents and leads seminars and workshops for clients and third parties and hosts breakfast workshops for senior HR managers on strategic employment law issues.

Joanne Bone

Partner – Commercial

Joanne advises on all aspects of IT contracting but has a particular specialism in regulatory and compliance issues relating to data protection.

Her data protection work involves carrying out data protection audits, building compliance programmes and drafting agreements to ensure compliance with the regulatory regime, including ensuring the compliant export of personal data. She also advises on how to deal with the more complex subject access requests and how best to deal with an ICO complaint and data breach issues.

She is regularly asked to speak on the topic of data protection and last year spoke at the Data IQ Trust Tour on the topic of the new General Data Protection Regulation. She was a panel member at the Collections, Debt Sale & Purchase Conference 2015 alongside the Information Commissioner’s Office which was organised by Credit Today. She was a key note speaker at the Central Law Training (CLT) Conference for in-house lawyers in Manchester and was a panellist at the Terradata (global big data and analytics company serving most of the UK’s biggest high street stores and banks) round table looking at the data protection implications of the Internet of Things.

Emma Yates

Associate – Intellectual Property

Emma has considerable experience in many areas of commercial litigation, but has a particular focus on intellectual property litigation. In addition to her expertise in intellectual property, Emma has specific experience in defamation law and also advises clients on commercial contract disputes, minority shareholder disputes and warranty claims.

At Emma’s previous firm she acted for a composer in relation to a copyright infringement claim against global rap artist Jay Z and has since acted for high profile clients such as Timmy Mallet and Paragon Finance Plc. Emma is one to watch in the contentious IP arena as she continues to act for Plcs and international companies such as Team 17 Software Limited.