Michelle Bruce

Solicitor - Senior Associate

SRA ID: 519950

Michelle joined Woodfines in September 2023. Michelle started her legal career by training as a Barrister but chose to cross qualify as a Solicitor in 2012. Michelle’s first role was as a Paralegal at London firm Leigh Day & Co, principally working on multi-party equal pay claims against local authorities. Throughout her experience, Michelle has carved a niche in discrimination law, with a particular interest in claims of disability; race and gender (including gender identity) in particular. Michelle undertakes a broad spectrum of both contentious and non-contentious work including drafting and negotiating contracts; drafting employment handbooks and/or staff policies; advising on redundancies as well as grievance and disciplinary issues. Michelle has also successfully negotiated both entry and exit packages for senior level employees, as well as advising employers on settlement agreements. Michelle has represented a mix of both employee and employer clients at hearings in the employment tribunal in a range of including unfair dismissal; discrimination and unlawful deduction claims (amongst others). Michelle has delivered training for the ELA on Settlement Agreements and in-house training on Gender Identity issues and Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees.