Caroline is a partner in the employment team and an employment specialist. She helps employers and individuals resolve or avoid HR and employment problems by providing proactive advice.

She specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment issues and has extensive experience of both bringing, robustly defending and pragmatically settling Employment Tribunal claims.

Her wide range of clients cover many industries including construction, property development, logistics and transport, medical communication, retail, recruitment, media and entertainment, ergonomics, technology, banking, hedge funds, mining, self storage and charities.

Her clients are often headline news in the UK press including the Financial Times. She has helped senior executive employees negotiate handsome payouts; increasing one person's redundancy payout from GBP £70,000 to GBP £500,000.

She advises corporate clients on all types of day-to-day HR issues from hiring to firing including redundancies and restructurings and how to dismissing CEOs and Directors.  She has advised on multi million pound employment claims, M&A transactions and TUPE transfers.

Caroline was Committee Chairman of a panel of international legal experts discussing “Issues Facing Women in Law Firms” at Legus (previously known as the Network of Leading Law Firms www.nllf.com) in June 2008.  She is also a respected employment law author and has had several articles published in publications including The Times, New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Employment Law Journal and Directors’ Magazine amongst others.

RECENT ARTICLES
 

Environmentalism, the British Religion, Time Magazine, Saturday 7 November (Nicholson v Grainger)

Caroline Doran, an employment specialist at the London law firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP, tells TIME the decision will "result in a tidal wave of philosophical-related litigation to employment tribunals." To read the full article please click here
 

35 Under 35 -  The Glass Hammer, 19 October 2009

“Anyone who sees employment law as “touchy feely” probably hasn’t had a HR problem,” says Caroline Doran, partner at London law firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP.

 The Glass Hammer is an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.  

To view the whole article please click here

Company fights climate change ruling by employment tribunal - The Guardian, 7 September 2009

The UK's Guardian Newspaper, reports an important case for UK employers "Company Fights climate Change Ruling by Employment Tribunal" and Caroline Doran, SGH Employment Partner, has been quoted. To read the article, click here.
 

Swine flu pandemic raises workplace litigation risk - Personnel Today, 28 July 2009

Businesses could face an increase in legal claims from employees hit by swine flu, legal experts have warned.  Caroline Doran, Employment Partner has been quoted.  To view the whole article, please click here

Swine flu pandemic could fuel rise in workplace litigation – The Guardian, 28 July 2009

Businesses could face a spate of legal claims from employees hit by swine flu, experts warn, as concerns mount that firms are not prepared to deal with legal issues arising from affected staff. Caroline Doran, Employment Partner  has been quoted in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper. To read the article, click here.

We have also developed a swine flu policy for employers.  To find out more please click here.

“Are eco warriors holding employers to ransom?” asks Caroline Doran, Employment Partner at Sprecher Grier Halberstam in the New Law Journal June 2009.   

Caroline Doran writes that Nicholson v Grainger Plc is a pioneering case of which all employers should be made aware as it could have far reaching (and expensive) implications for their businesses. In Nicholson the employment tribunal recognised for the first time that an individual’s views about climate change were capable of being protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.  To read Caroline Doran’s New Law Journal article in full please clink on the link HERE

Climate change -the new religion? Authoritas Newsletter (RSM Bentley Jennison) June 2009

The case of Nicholson v Grainger plc is one of which all employers should be aware since it could have far-reaching (and expensive) implications for them. In this case, the Employment Tribunal acknowledged for the first time that an individual’s views on climate change were capable of being protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (“the Regulations”).  Article written by Caroline Doran, Employment Partner.  To view the whole article, please click here.
 

“Are eco warriors holding employers to ransom?” asks Caroline Doran, Employment Partner at Sprecher Grier Halberstam in the New Law Journal June 2009.   

Caroline Doran writes that Nicholson v Grainger Plc is a pioneering case of which all employers should be made aware as it could have far reaching (and expensive) implications for their businesses. In Nicholson the employment tribunal recognised for the first time that an individual’s views about climate change were capable of being protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.  To read Caroline Doran’s New Law Journal article in full please clink on the link HERE