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Shielding Your Team: Enhancing Safety and Security in the Modern Workplace – Post-IFSEA Conference Podcast Recording

September 12th, 2025 by Stuart Smith

Following the 6th IFSEA International Conference on Executive & Founder Issues in June 2025, we are delighted to share with you a follow up podcast on the session, ‘Shielding Your Team: Enhancing Safety and Security in the Modern Workplace’. Watch the video, listen to the recording or read the transcript. In this engaging discussion, the panellists […]

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Client Confidentiality: Risks in Partner and Team Moves

September 4th, 2025 by Stuart Smith

We are delighted to bring you a new video series focusing on client confidentiality in legal practice. This series will explores the regulatory, ethical, and practical challenges surrounding the duty of confidentiality, particularly as it applies to law firm operations and professional conduct. In this first episode, Partners Nick Leale, Andrew Pavlovic and David Fisher discuss the risks […]

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Managing Partner Performance: The One With the Squabbling Partners

July 10th, 2025 by Stuart Smith

In this second video in our series focusing on the key issues surrounding partner performance in law firms, Partners Zulon Begum and David Fisher are joined by special guests Nick Jarrett-Kerr and Jonathan Middleburgh from leading law firm consultancy, Edge International, and authors of the book Managing Partner Performance: Strategies for Transforming Underperforming Partners. In this video, The One […]

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Political & Philosophical Beliefs; Workplace Harassment – Lessons to Learn from McDonald’s; Employment Rights Bill Update and Navigating Pre-Termination Negotiations – Employment Law Matters: Edition 10

January 28th, 2025 by Mitchell Blythe

Welcome to the next edition of Employment Law Matters, our quarterly update on key issues in employment law. Every three months, we will send you a selection of the most important developments for employers in case law and legislation, including practical takeaways for employers as well as things to look forward to in the coming months. CM Murray LLP are […]

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Non-Poaching Restrictions in Employment

October 8th, 2024 by Stuart Smith

When can a business prevent its former employees from soliciting or enticing away its staff? And can it stop them from employing their former colleagues regardless of who made the first approach? In the third part of our series on restrictive covenants and other forms of business protection, Partner David Fisher looks at the enforceability and scope […]

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Labour’s Employment Law Reforms; New Duty – Reasonable Steps to Prevent Sexual Harassment; Non-Compete Bans & Religious Discrimination in Workplace – Employment Law Matters: Edition 9

September 27th, 2024 by Stuart Smith

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Team Moves: Some Practical Views

August 19th, 2024 by Stuart Smith

Acquiring a team from a competitor can be a fast way for a business to develop and grow, but there are lots of pitfalls for the unwary. In this short video recording, our Managing Partner Clare Murray and Partner David Fisher explore: What a team move is and why they happen The risks and potential liabilities for the team members […]

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Non-Solicitation and Non-Dealing Restrictions in Employment

July 19th, 2024 by Stuart Smith

When can a business prevent its former employees from approaching or dealing with its clients, and how far can an individual go before their actions amount to a breach of their obligations? In the second part of our new series on restrictive covenants and other forms of business protection, Partner David Fisher looks at the enforceability […]

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Non-Competes in Employment

May 7th, 2024 by Stuart Smith

Businesses need to protect their interests when key people leave to join a competitor. Many companies and firms therefore include post-termination restrictive covenants in their employment contracts and partnership agreements, and it will be unusual for a partner, LLP member, senior executive or other key employee not to be subject to post-termination restrictions of one form […]

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Is It Too Soon For Executives (and Partners) to be Celebrating Their Release from US Non-Competition Restrictions?

May 1st, 2024 by Stuart Smith

On 23 April 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its final rule banning non-compete clauses across the United States of America (Final Rule). In a 3-2 decision, the FTC determined that non-compete clauses are an unfair method of competition and so violate s 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act). This is […]

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