Welcome to CM Murray LLP
CM Murray LLP provide confidential, strategic UK employment and partnership law advice to multi-national and UK corporations, professional partnerships, directors and partners.
Our approach enables us to offer our clients personalised legal support and tactical HR crisis management.
Our employment law practice focuses primarily on sensitive City issues and international employment arrangements and disputes.
Partner discrimination issues, management of team moves, partner departures and enforcement of restrictive covenants are key aspects of our partnership law expertise.
Preservation of client reputation is a core objective of our practice. For clients facing media-sensitive legal issues, we provide through our external consultants an integrated press relations and HR coaching service, tailored to individual client needs.
Legal 500 2011 recommends CM Murray LLP for employment and partnership law:
Employment: “CM Murray LLP stands out for its work on senior City executive exits and appointments; high-value discrimination claims; and team moves and restrictive covenants. Clare Murray and Bettina Bender are ‘highly responsive and professional’, and provide ‘calm, measured advice combined with persistence when needed.” (Employment (Tier 6))
Partnership: “Boutique employment and partnership practice CM Murray LLP is ‘an ideal firm for partners in city investment businesses, particularly for those with profit share/bonus disputes’. Focusing on contentious matters, ‘leading partnership practitioner’ Clare Murray is ‘a class act, combining intellectual capability with the best people skills in the business’. Bettina Bender and senior associate Susanne Foster are also recommended.” (Partnership (Tier 2))
Chambers and Partners 2012 recommends CM Murray LLP for employment and partnership law:
Employment: Senior Executive (London & UK-wide): CM Murray has quickly established itself as a major specialist name in high-stakes, international employment assignments, particularly on behalf of employers in the finance sector. The team “embraces the whole case and takes time to get to grips with everything,” say sources, who note that “they are all very quick to drive to the heart of the issue.”
Key Individuals: Managing partner Clare Murray is praised for combining “technical expertise with superb case-handling skills” and is considered “an excellent choice for dealing with sensitive issues.” She is recommended as a leading expert in advising the senior executives of major international companies.
Partnership: (Contentious and Non-contentious): CM Murray is widely recognised for its expertise in contentious partnership matters, where it has a particularly strong reputation for representing individuals. The team’s workload typically includes partner exits, partner discrimination claims, team departures and restrictive covenants. Sources praise this “growing firm,” stating that it is “extraordinarily good, very effective and easy to work with.”
Key Individuals: Clare Murray is recognised as a leading contentious partnership expert, but is also very highly regarded for her non-contentious work. Sources say she has “a clear way of getting her points across” and praise her “good bedside manner,” adding that she “knows her stuff inside and out.” Associate Susanne Foster focuses on team moves and discrimination cases and is hailed by interviewees as a “very promising” individual.