Lewis Silkin LLP is a UK top 100 commercial

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with offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong. The firm has over 70 partners, 270 lawyers and total staff of over 577 people. Jo Evans is Lewis Silkin's current Chair of the Partnership. Richard Miskella and Jo Farmer are the firm's Joint Managing Partners.

History

The firm was established in 1950 in Rye Lane, Peckham as "Lewis Silkin and Partners" by John Silkin, son of

Lewis Silkin Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin CH (14 November 1889 – 11 May 1972), was a British Labour Party politician. Career Lewis Silkin was born on 14 November 1889 to Abraham and Fanny Silkin, who were Litvak Jews from what was then the Lithuanian ...

. Lewis himself joined the practice full-time in the 1950s after leaving the House of Commons and relinquishing some parliamentary duties he had undertaken on first becoming a peer.

opened an office in Westminster in addition to the existing office in Peckham. The Peckham office was initially a general practice, providing 'high street' services. The Westminster office specialised in planning law and development permits. During his time in Government and as Minister of Town and Country Planning,

had been known as the 'architect' of our town and country planning policies.

The firm today

Lewis Silkin is based in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong. The firm works with leading businesses to protect their most important assets – their ideas, their people, and their future. We call it Ideas. People. Possibilities. *

rockhopper

In 2014 Lewis Silkin launched a low cost, fixed fee employment law service "rockhopper" as a response to the potential loss of lawyers with caring responsibilities and client demand for cost-effective support. Lawyers working for rockhopper work flexibly from home on a part-time basis. rockhopper's operating model was noted by Working Families for its efforts in retaining staff in the legal industry with the service winning Best Innovation in the Working Families Best Practice 2018 awards.

International

The firm is a member of two international networks.

Ius Laboris Ius Laboris is a global alliance of law firms that specialise in employment, labour, immigration and pensions law. The network has over 1,500 HR lawyers based in 59 countries across Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Asia Asia (, ) is ...

is a global alliance of employment law specialist firms and The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance comprises experts internationally in that field.

Corporate social responsibility

The firm has taken part in charity fundraising events over the years, including the 3 Peaks Challenge in 2011, a 30-hour non-stop "Spinathon", staging a pantomime in 2012 and the 24 Peaks challenge in 2015. In 2013, the firm took part in a charity shop takeover for

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and cycle to Amsterdam for

Helen and Douglas House Helen & Douglas House is a registered hospice charity (no. 1085951) based in Oxford, England, providing palliative, respite, end-of-life and bereavement care to life-limited children and their families. History Helen House was the world's ...

. In 2014, the firm organised an "alternative" triathlon to raise money for Oxford Homeless Pathways. In 2014, the firm was awarded Best Social Mobility Program at the Managing Partners Forum awards. The firm has been accredited by the

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as a

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employer since 2012.

External links

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