About us

Steen & Co Employment Solicitors' aim is to provide a quality alternative to the employment law departments of large firms of solicitors. We only provide employment law advice. Our clients range from multinational corporations and quoted companies to small and medium sized enterprises, non governmental bodies, executives and high net worth individuals. Clients mainly come from recommendations and in fact in 2005 over 80% of new clients used us as a result of a recommendation from an existing client. We also receive referrals from accountants and management consultancies and, for marketing purposes, make use of Google.

Simon Steen formed Steen & Co Employment Solicitors in 2002. Simon is a solicitor with over 15 years' employment law experience. He undertook his first tribunal in 1990, his win for the company occasioning the headline ‘firm’s cloak and dagger scheme was fair’. He has worked 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. This job involved dealing with not only employment law issues but also with a wide range of other commercial issues. 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. He originally qualified as a barrister in 1989 but re-qualified as a solicitor when partnership in a solicitors’ firm was offered. Simon plays cricket enthusiastically but badly for the MCC (sadly, the Moreton Cricket Club not the other MCC), alternates driving to work in a 12 year old car and a 33 year old one and doesn’t understand why people drive new cars.

Sara Lockton is a part one qualified legal executive and very experienced employment law secretary. She started working with Simon in 1996 and continued to work for him for 4 years. She then had a spell as a fee earning legal adviser in a firm of solicitors and returned to working with Simon at Steen and Co Employment Solicitors in 2004. Sara types, organises, emails, updates databases, takes details, ensures engagement letters and instruction checklists are sent, marshals the solicitors, and remains calm at all times. She is unstinting in her support of Hull Sharks Rugby League club.