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Exactly what have I agreed?

Quiz question: you are offered a job in an LLP with a salary plus a 1% equity share; you accept the job but never sign any terms governing the equity share; you are not even shown the LLP agreement but are shown a draft new agreement. What is your position regarding the equity share?

  • A) You don’t have an equity share because you never agreed terms.
  • B) You have a share governed by the LLP agreement which you did not see.
  • C) You have a share governed by the draft new LLP agreement.
  • D) You have a share governed by the default provisions of the LLP Act.

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Open justice or blacklisting?

I admit it: I thrilled at the bank’s barrister squirming in London East Tribunal last year as he failed to obtain an order that my client’s whistleblowing claim be held in private – I was an ardent fan of open justice! But a development last month has made me wonder where I draw the line… Continue reading “Open justice or blacklisting?”

Competing against your ex-partners – A bridge too far?

It is time to take a stand against the orthodoxy that partnerships (including LLPs) are able to enforce wide-ranging and lengthy post-termination restrictions against departing partners.  It is time to say that the leading authority of Bridge v Deacons is out of date and no longer good law. Continue reading “Competing against your ex-partners – A bridge too far?”

The pitfalls of LLP membership…

You’ve been offered membership of an LLP – what do you need to know? Continue reading “The pitfalls of LLP membership…”

The Gender Pay Regulations – toothless but hidden venom

A taxi driver once asked me, having been told I was an employment lawyer, whether I represented “women who ask for a million pounds because someone made a remark about their tits”. Not only does this illustrate a common misperception of employment law, it is also relevant to the new, supposedly toothless, Gender Pay Gap Regulations. Continue reading “The Gender Pay Regulations – toothless but hidden venom”

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