Following the announcement of the closure of the Pfizer manufacturing site he was selected by his colleagues to represent them during the redundancy process and therefore, somewhat unusually for an employment lawyer, has experience of large scale redundancy consultations from an employee’s perspective and first hand experience of the personal issues and uncertainty faced by his clients.

David’s experiences in representing his colleagues led him to choose to retrain as a solicitor on leaving Pfizer in 2008 and following his graduation from the University of Kent and the College of Law he joined Girlings in 2011 and qualified as a Solicitor in 2013. David is a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer.
David advises on all aspects of employment law.
- Advising the employees of several large businesses, including a number of household names, in large scale redundancy exercises
- Advising employers with regard to obtaining a sponsor licence and sponsoring overseas employees to obtain skilled worker visas
- Collaborating with colleagues in the Corporate and Commercial and Commercial Property on the employment law aspects of business acquisitions and disposals
- Advising a large local charity on the employment issues arising on its conversion to a charitable company
- Advising a large employer with regard to defending an Employment Tribunal claim for sex and race discrimination, which was subsequently dismissed
- Advising a well known local client in the entertainment sector with regard to furlough and a collective redundancy consultation following the impact of Covid19.