Recommendations for firm who can give employment law advice?

[EmploymentLawQ]

I've been asked to look into this at work, but we have no HR dept (or similar) and I'm neither a lawyer nor a HR professional. We do have a regular legal firm we use (large national company) but I haven't been impressed with the recent service and I don't know if they are specialists in this area.

NC because my boss would be raging if she knew I was asking MN!

The company I work for started 20 years ago. Recently it received advice, as part of a review, that some longstanding contractors might actually be employees (not an IR35 issue, this was flushed out during an IR35 review). I've been asked by the directors to get a second legal opinion, focusing on employment law (not tax), but this is massively outside my area of expertise and I don't know where to go to get good advice. Can anyone recommend a legal firm who specialises in this kind of advice please?

Happy to PM more (outing) details to any of the employment board regulars that I recognise - I lurk on here quite a bit.

Many thanks for any recommendations

I know Shepherd and Wedderburn have an employment law practice - are you wanting to go smaller?

Thank you! No, not bothered about the size of the firm, just that they have the right expertise. Our current firm does a little bit of everything, but I'm not sure whether that means they have the right people in every area, IYSWIM.

Do you want a law firm? Or an HR consultancy specialising in smaller businesses without HR internally?

@flowery I will PM you with more details, if that's okay, as I'm not sure whether the HR consultancy would also do the job.

What about someone like Advisor Plus?

They seem to advertise everywhere but I don't know if they are any good or not.

I also would love to know this as I’ve just applied to my old company for a job and I have a strong suspicion they have used age discrimination to weed me out of interview (hard to prove I know but the person I would be working for emailed me personally - weirdly - and said a couple of things of which i suspect HR would very much disapprove!)

[quote EmploymentLawQ]@flowery I will PM you with more details, if that's okay, as I'm not sure whether the HR consultancy would also do the job.[/quote]
I have messages blocked normally but I’ve just unblocked them so feel free to PM

@flowery Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I'm feeling a bit lost as to where to begin with the whole issue.

I recommend a law firm based in Cheshire named Myerson. https://www.myerson.co.uk/?GOOGLEPPC&keyword=myerson%20solicitors&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0oCDBhCPARIsAII3CCFAUAJ1UZ3pncKun23N8zaSEMDr6nueKTD364ruCGwSSjVvKNduc0aAguBEALwwwcB Great employment law team. Longer term if you wanted outsourced HR advice I have been recommended Outset https://www.outsetuk.com

DLA Piper have always been my favourite employment law practice.