Rachel Dineley

Rachel leads the Employment and Pensions Group's national equality and discrimination unit, providing advice to a wide range of public and private sector employers.  She has particular experience of working with clients in financial services, IT and professional services, technology, retail and manufacturing. 

Her work ranges from strategic advice on policy making and management of sensitive issues such as whistleblowing through to handling discrimination and stress-related claims including mediations; data protection; the negotiation of termination packages; dismissal; protection of confidential information and restrictive covenants; consultation issues; redundancies and employment aspects of corporate re-structuring and employment related risk management. 

Rachel regularly speaks and writes on employment law, especially on discrimination issues, in which she has developed particular expertise (most recently, age discrimination and the Equality Act).  She devises and runs training programmes and workshops for clients on cutting edge issues, to reflect best practice in their particular sectors, as well as working with the Employers' Forum on Age, Employers' Forum on Religion and Belief and the CIPD.

Rachel Dineley is head of the firm's diversity and discrimination unit. She epitomises the department's pragmatic and reasonable approach: "A great employment lawyer, she knows her stuff and knows her clients." Chambers UK, 2011 Edition, Employment, London & UK-Wide.