Testimonials

We are longstanding members of the BoxHR scheme and find the team’s support extremely valuable. Having taken time to understand the people-centred way in which we operate, their advice is suitably tailored to our needs and objectives as an organisation.

To complement the employment law support, we also engage Chadwick Lawrence to deliver health and safety services and, more recently, outsourced administrative HR provision. Having so many support services in one place makes all of our trusted advisers feel like part of the team at Mencap, and we have access to a varied, specialist skill set who all play an important role in protecting our organisation and the people we support.

As a social enterprise, Spectrum has subscribed to BoxHR and would not hesitate to recommend this to other businesses as it has been invaluable to ours. Our advisors have adapted their advice to appreciate the specialist nature of our services, our employees and out business and we are delighted with the support we receive. Any advice is received in a timely manner, supporting us to manage our staff and business in line with best practice and employment legislation.

The team at Chadwick Lawrence provides comprehensive, consultative support to our existing HR department which is focused on our needs, objectives, and the commercial context to the issues we face. Their assistance in both day-to-day employment matters and in defending litigation has been invaluable to the growth and continued success of the business.

We have worked with the employment team at Chadwick Lawrence for a number of years and we have grown significantly during that time. Such growth has presented new challenges for the business from a people management perspective, but we have worked with Chadwick Lawrence using the BoxHR service to deliver commercial solutions in each case.

The support gives us an added layer of expertise which supports our knowledgeable and experience team. This consultative approach means that we can use the service at a very early stage in a process to talk through options, potential outcomes and decide on the most appropriate way forward for the business.

Chadwick Lawrence have been there from the very start for us. In the beginning, we didn’t have a dedicated HR team and much of the support was delivered directly on a hands-on basis to myself and my Operations Director. As we have grown, we now have a comprehensive HR function in place, so the team have adapted to provide consultative help to us on a regular basis.

One example of their assistance was in negotiations with a trade union over recognition. This was new territory to us but, through their support, we feel we have found an effective way of developing maintaining a relationship with the union.

We find our advisers Daniel and Nils to be very responsive and extremely pragmatic when it comes to problem-solving. I will often give them the scenario and the answer I want, and their job is to get me there on a commercial basis!

We have also used the wider team on regulatory matters, and colleagues have been instrumental on the Property side in helping us with the development of residential units for a number of our service users.

I can’t thank Zoe Allen and Gaia Hinchliffe at Chadwick Lawrence enough for the way they handled the sale of our company shares. What could have been an incredibly stressful and frustrating experience was made so much easier because of their support, guidance, and determination to get the right result for us.

The negotiations were made more difficult through the unorthodox and underhand methods utilised by the opposition lawyers who were extremely unprofessional. Zoe and Gaia never wavered, they were calm when things got tense, reassuring when we had doubts and absolutely relentless in protecting our interests. At every stage we felt they were right beside us, fighting our corner.

Thanks to their hard work, invaluable collaboration and commitment, the sale went through successfully, and we’re thrilled with the outcome. I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to recommend the Dispute Resolution and Corporate team at Chadwick Lawrence – they are not only brilliant solicitors but also people you can genuinely trust to have your back.