Caroline Walker
Managing Director
The founder of Cavendish Employment Law, Caroline, has been a specialist employment law solicitor since the year 2000 and has successfully headed up Employment Law Departments at leading City law firms. She has acted for a number of high-profile media clients, record labels, blue-chip companies, multinational corporations and senior executives. Caroline is a leading lawyer in the financial sector, having represented many senior finance employees and board executives.
Caroline has written many published articles on various aspects of employment law, and she is a contributor to the Financial Times and the BBC. Caroline has also spoken at many employment law conferences and seminars, and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Awards
- AI Legal Awards - Best Specialist Employment Law Practice in London 2021
- AI Legal Awards - Leading Specialist Employment Law Solicitor of the Year 2021
- AI Legal Awards - Best Employment Law Experts, London 2022
- AI Legal Awards - Leading Specialist Employment Law Solicitor of the Year - UK 2022
- Global 100 Awards - Best Niche City Law Firm of the Year - London, UK 2022
- International Elite 100 - Employment Law Firm of the Year 2023
- International Elite 100 - Best Employment Law Firm of the Year 2022
- Lawyer International - Best Employment Law Firm 2022
- Lawyer Worldwide Awards - Outstanding Lawyers 2022
- LawyerMonthly - Lawyer Monthly Legal Award 2022
- Legal 100 Awards - Employment Law Firm of the Year 2023
- M&A Global Awards - Employment Law Director 2022
- South East England by M&A Global Awards Best Employment Law Director 2023
- Southern Enterprise Awards - Employment Law Firm of the Year 2022
- WFAAM Awards- Lawyer of the Year - Employment Specialists of the Year - UK 2022
- WFAAM Awards - Leading Lawyers Worldwide 2022
- WFAAM Continent Awards - Employment Specialists of the Year - UK 2023
- WFAAM Golden Globe Awards - Employment Specialists of the Year - UK 2022
Recent Expertise:
With a reputation for representing employees in the finance sector, as well as dealing with high profile and/or employees in high value and or complex legal claims, Caroline's recent cases include the following:-
- Obtaining a +£1m bonus against a well-known bank
- Successfully settling a high court action for the non-payment of a bonus against a bank
- Leading and resolving a board-level dispute for the removal of a director and negotiating terms for an incoming director
- Advising on a landmark case for discrimination that settled before reaching the eat
- Successfully dealing with a grievance and appeal against a leading premiership football club
- Advising a leading airline on their discrimination policy after successfully settling a discrimination case against them
- Winning an unfair dismissal case for a board-level director whose redundancy was deemed to be unfair
- A successful high-value settlement for non-payment of a bonus against a rank 1 bank
- A successful judgement in an unfair dismissal case concerning a sham redundancy
- A successful high-value settlement in a whistleblowing case against a rank 1 bank
- Numerous high-value settlements in respect of discrimination and unfair dismissal claims
