Steen & Co. Employment Solicitors
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Steen & Co Employment Solicitors is a specialist firm of employment solicitors

We are a quality firm of solicitors dealing only with employment law.  Our aim is to provide a quality alternative to the employment law departments of large firms of solicitors. Our clients range from multinational corporations and quoted companies to small and medium sized enterprises, non governmental bodies and executives. Unlike other 'city' type firms we aim to act for both executives and companies. In fact, some of our company clients use us because we have extracted their chairman or chief executive from his or her previous job. Clients mainly come from recommendations and we think it is about 80% of new clients that use us as a result of a recommendation from an existing client. We always send thank you letters when that happens. We also receive referrals from accountants and management consultancies and, for marketing purposes, make use of Google.   

Simon Steen

Simon is a solicitor with over 20 years' employment law experience.  He formed Steen & Co Employment Solicitors in 2002. However, he undertook his first tribunal in 1989 when he was an in house lawyer dealing with employment law. He has worked solely as an employment solicitor ever since. His experience includes 5 years working in house as legal adviser to a company which at the time was in the FTSE 100. In 1995 Simon joined and later became a partner in a large regional firm where he was recognised in the Legal 500 as a noted employment lawyer 'with a sound reputation in employment law'. In 2000 he began working for a very large London firm of solicitors as a senior employment lawyer and set up Steen & Co Employment Solicitors in 2002.

He has a background in computer science and law and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.  As well as being a qualified solicitor Simon also qualified as a barrister in 1989. Simon plays cricket enthusiastically but badly, drives old and really old cars and doesn’t understand why people drive new cars. 

Melanie Slocombe

Melanie Slocombe qualified as a solicitor in 1995. She has specialised in employment law since then, with Eversheds in Cardiff and subsequently as a partner of McDermott, Will and Emery in London. She left McDermott, Will and Emery to take a short career break to look after her family and joined Steen & Co in March 2010.

Melanie has acted for a wide range of corporate and individual clients. Her work has included dealing with hiring and firing senior executives, the complex employment issues arising out of corporate transactions together with the vast array of other employment law problems faced by HR teams on a day to day basis. She has significant advocacy experience in the Employment Tribunal and has represented clients in High Court and the Court of Appeal.

She has written an number of books on employment law, notably Guide to Employment Law; Employment Law Made Easy; and Your Rights at Work, all published by Law Pack Publishing Limited. Before taking her career break she was also a regular speaker on employment law for Central Law Training and Hawksmere.