“The advice and support we have received during what can be stressful and difficult times has been second to none and is far superior to other firms we have tried in the past. I found Capital Law’s understanding of intricate and complex employment issues within the retail environment refreshing with complicated policies explained in an easy to understand format.”
Clients include
- Jo Jo Maman Bebe
- Jesire
- Mango
- Peacocks Stores Limited
- Bonmarche
- Ocado
- Tile & Bath Co (UK)
Our retail team works with local, national and international retailers, concessions and online suppliers.
A sector defined by pace and creativity, retail strikes a chord with our lawyers. Our team of employment law, property, dispute resolution and corporate specialists have the level of skill, experience and commitment we think you would expect of your own high achievers.
But there’s more to us than meets the eye. Our lawyers have worked on the shop floor – serving customers, handling stock and operating tills. They have also spent time in-house with retailers. So we suppose you could say that we’re more than just legal experts. We understand how the retail sector works, the systems, the priorities, the problems and the solutions.
And we know that issues with staff, a customer or supplier don’t just crop up between nine and five. More importantly, we recognise that you don’t stop thinking about problems when the closed sign appears. So we try our very best to be available, whenever you need us.
Specialisms
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Snapshot of our experience
- Representing a retail client at a four day disability and race discrimination claim brought by an employee who had failed her probationary period
- Strategic advice on planning and implementing change management programmes involving altering the working hours of 8,000 staff across the UK
- Advising on a TUPE transfer affecting a facilities management company and supermarket chain (trade union involvement)
- Senior management team support in developing performance management and reward systems
- Advising on a dispute about software and hardware (resolved at mediation)
- Acting on behalf of a claimant toy design company in a patent infringement case against one of the UK’s market leaders.
- Acting for one of Europe’s largest fishing equipment suppliers in relation to a defended patent and copyright infringement action
- Acting for one of the UK’s leading price comparison websites against numerous individuals and companies attempting to infringe its trademark and pass themselves off as being associated with our client.
As a matter of fact……
A senior member of our employment team had a real penchant for all things retail in her younger days.
Her first job was, as a teenager, working at a pet store. She moved on to selling shoes and handbags at Stead and Simpsons and from there to Halfords where she developed some intricate knowledge about inner tubes, brake shoes, WD40 and windscreen wipers. Finally, a fruit shop, jewellers, and bar.
