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Stephen Levinson
Employment Partner

Stephen's legal career began at Paisner & Co where he was trained and qualified after reading law at Leicester University. He became a partner in 1979 and established an employment department that became recognised as one of the UK's leading employment law practices. Thereafter he has helped run the employment departments at KLegal and at Maclay Murray & Spens, London and joined Manches in 2004.

Stephen frequently advises on business sales and mergers; MBOs; outsourcing in the public and private sectors; collective bargaining; and industrial relations. He also advises on policy issues relating to directors and employees; managing change; corporate governance; race, sex and disability discrimination; Works Councils and union recognition. In addition, he has appeared in hundreds of employment tribunal cases as an advocate as well as in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Stephen was a founder member of the Employment Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales. He has also been Chairman of the Industrial Law Society, and was a member of its Executive Committee for many years. He is currently a member of the Management Committee of the Employment Lawyers Association.


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Jonathan Maude
Employment Partner

Jonathan graduated from Queen Mary College London in 1990 and qualified with the firm of Thomson Snell & Passmore in 1993. He joined Manches in the Employment Group in February 2001.

Jonathan advises on a wide range of employment law issues that arise throughout the employment relationship from recruitment through to termination. Jonathan has a particular interest in advising corporates at board level and in connection with confidentiality and restrictive covenant matters.


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Peter Stevens
Partner

Peter graduated from Leicester in 1976, joined Rubinstein Callingham on qualifying in 1979 and remained there (becoming a partner in 1983) until the firm merged with Manches in 1994. He became a Chartered Tax Adviser (ATII) in 1985.

Peter deals with commercial work generally, including agency, distribution and franchise agreements, but specialises in computer law, IT and electronic commerce.

Peter is a member of the International Bar Association, the British-German Jurists Association, the Society for Computers and the Law, and The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation. He has lectured in this country and abroad on commercial and Internet-related subjects, and is the principal author of the publication "Caught in the Web - Law and the Internet". He also wrote the taxation section of Volume 21 (Intellectual Property) of "Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents", and the tax chapter of Adams "Character Merchandising".


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