our Superhero lawyers
Emma-Jane Taylor-Moran, Principal Employment Law Solicitor
Owner, founder and all-round general manager of everything Rebel Law related.
With 20 years' legal experience, Emma-Jane has bags of knowledge and insight into employment law and HR issues.
She understands the challenges facing small business owners, and her straight-talking approach goes down well.
For employees who need her help, she has been there and got the T-shirt. Clients appreciate her empathy and practical problem solving to their workplace problems.
She represents both employers and employees and likes nothing more than getting stuck in and sorting things out.
Clients seem to like her a lot, and she gets great results, both of which are what matters. Once, someone called her a Negotiating Demon.
She keeps chickens, is unnervingly good at reading people’s minds, and her secret nickname that nobody calls her is Champion the Underdog.
Jane Johnson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Jane Johnson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Jane is a straight-talking Mancunian, but she abandoned her roots to live in London. She is a networking demon and seems to know everyone, and they all want her to work with them. Her knack for getting to the nub of the legal issue and offering her very sensible take on things is appreciated by clients.
She is a fighter, but also a pragmatist – think imaginary lovechild of Gallagher and Gandhi. We call her Scrappy Doo. No we don’t, but she really is a fantastic tribunal fiend. She is also lucky to be Jane with the Good Hair.
Ruth Deakin, Consultant Employment Lawyer
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Jane Johnson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Clients tell Ruth that she is their "go to person" for employment law advice as she speaks without legal jargon, and they trust that she always tells them what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. She is also kind, understanding and supportive. Ruth also rocks as an employment tribunal advocate.
She is based in the North West, and is a keen marathon runner (to her own amazement) and mum to a sporty daughter.
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Katharine is fastidious about detail and has a sixth sense in understanding the bigger picture, the commercial realities and the right thing to do.
She gives spot-on employment law advice to businesses to help them "get it right", which is good for them, their staff morale, and reduces the risk of tribunal claims, which is good for their bank balance!
She listens to their needs and concerns and provides in-depth bespoke advice to employers (and sometimes employees). Katharine juggles children (while wakeboarding and playing the guitar- not usually at the same time) in the South of England.
Laura Sheridan, Legal Executive
Kirsty Taylor-Moran, Trainee Solicitor
Katharine Ryder Richardson, Consultant Employment Solicitor
Laura likes to fight for professionals who are having difficulties at work, or who have complaints about being unfairly treated.
Laura is passionate about helping people stand up against unfairness and discrimination. She is also a keen advocate at grievance and disciplinary hearings.
She recently completed her CILEX training, and like she doesn’t have enough to do, Laura is also a Union Rep in her other life.
Based in the Midlands, Laura referees two teens at home and she takes no prisoners!
Kirsty Taylor-Moran, Trainee Solicitor
Kirsty Taylor-Moran, Trainee Solicitor
Kirsty Taylor-Moran, Trainee Solicitor
Kirsty has many talents, not least that she is able to juggle a hundred things at once and enjoys getting stuck in to anything that helps our clients.
She is a lawyer in the making, a whizz at assimilating information and assists fee earners with their drafting work. The apple didn't fall far.
Kirsty is also a small business owner, and a local Green Party Town Councillor in Hertfordshire. She is mad-keen about saving the environment and the zero-waste movement, and wrangles two small cheeky boys at home on a daily basis.
Our HR Superheroes
Amanda Parvin, HR Consultant
Katherine Duff, HR Consultant
Katherine Duff, HR Consultant
Amanda is the Blue Fairy of HR - she glides in, talks it all through in a firm but fair way, adds sprinkles of kindness, and flutters away leaving everyone following the right path towards honesty, respect and fairness.
She is passionate about issues like disability, mental health, equality and inclusion and goes on the telly raising awareness about this a lot.
Amanda is Associate CIPD accredited, has a law degree and bags of experience as an HR consultant. If that isn’t enough, she somehow finds time to write children’s books, ski, and volunteer as a cook in a homeless shelter.
She will be your trusted adviser - just don't ever call her Mandy!
Katherine Duff, HR Consultant
Katherine Duff, HR Consultant
Katherine Duff, HR Consultant
Katherine puts both the human and humour into Human Resources. She is an amazingly sensible and experienced HR professional, who goes to bed each night knowing she has made a difference to her clients. Whether she is handling a tricky resignation, running a smooth hassle-free redundancy process or supporting an employee moving into a new job role- she is driven by taking a bad situation and making it better.
Her employer clients say that she is a good person to have in their corner- supportive, hands on, pragmatic, with the right amount of compassion and fun. She only works with clients who send cake.
Katherine used to have 12 fingers and slightly regrets losing the extras, as she could have been so much better at playing the piano!