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Level-headed legal guidance on dealing with difficult employees


Mathew Clayton
Help for all stages of your business
  • Awkward situations call for clear, workable solutions

    Whatever the management challenges presented by difficult employees, we’ll give you a clear, wise course of action to help you successfully address the situation. We will plot a course for you towards your desired outcome, whilst minimising as far as possible the potential risks you may face in the process.

    We recognise that addressing problems, and not allowing them to fester for fear of the consequences, helps to restore efficiency and morale in your working environment.

  • Level-headed advice, in tune with your culture and goals

    When you work with us, we make the effort to understand your business and its culture. This understanding enables us to deliver our advice in a true commercial context – rather than simply reciting the law.

  • We focus on covering your back – not our own

    We would never ‘sit on the fence’ to cover our backs. We give confident, clear guidance on the most appropriate course of action for your business, with solutions-focused advice on minimising potential liabilities you may face along the way.

  • Legal expenses insurance and assistance

    The cost of a employment related dispute can be substantial. Through our specialist, recommended partner, we offer litigation expenses insurance to help you cover legal fees, such as solicitors and barristers fees, and court expenses, as well as the risk of paying the other side’s costs.

  • 864+
    Years’ combined
    experience, built since 1947
    Years’ combined
    experience, built since 1947
  • 94%
    Of clients would
    recommend us
    Of clients would
    recommend us
  • 1947
    The year our Cheltenham
    law firm was established
    The year our Cheltenham
    law firm was established
  • 49
    Outstanding rankings
    in The Legal 500
    Outstanding rankings
    in The Legal 500

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    "We have a great experience working with the team at Willans both personally and professionally. I contact about 100 law firms worldwide each year and you are undoubtedly on the top tier. This project in particular, was critical to us due to the short timeframes. All of the team at Willans have impressive qualities – they’re fully customer orientated and provide solutions which are both technically perfect and also practical. We always felt throughout the whole procedure, which was quite complex, that it was perfectly under control at all times." "

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