Experience

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  August & debouzy

  Jun 2000 - Jul 2003

  Avocat
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  Herbert smith freehills

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2003

  Avocat
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  Eurostar

  Feb 2007 - Oct 2008

  Human resources business manager
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  Consultations gratuites

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2019

  Chair and co-founder

  Founded in 2008 and chaired for 11 years Consultations Gratuites: a free drop-in clinic that provides free independent legal advice on English law in French to low income French speakers in the UK that became officially sponsored by the French Consulate in London and secured Lord Phillips of Worth Maltravers, the first President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as patron during her leadership (http://www.consultationsgratuites.org.uk).

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  Slater & gordon lawyers (uk) (formerly russell jones & walker)

  Nov 2008 - Jul 2011

  Solicitor
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  The ideas partnership

  Jan 2015 - now

  Trustee of uk charitable trust

  As one of its 5 trustees, oversees the budget, the fundraising campaigns and the grants allocation of The Ideas Partnership UK, charity 1161389, aimed at community building, relief of poverty and education in Kosovo (http://theideaspartnership.org/wp/).

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  Working families

  Feb 2015 - Sept 2020

  Head of legal advice

  Is seen as an expert in family friendly rights and an inspiring communicator.Manages the judicial interventions of the charity in the Court of Appeal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Has transformed Working Families 200+ specialist advice pages - which attract one million unique views per year, newsletters and social media aimed at parents/advisers. Manages the Legal Advice Services of the charity, winner of the coveted Law Society Excellence In-House Award in 2018 and Lexis Nexis 2020 In-House Team of the Year finalist and secured in December 2019 the Advice Quality Standard when the external assessor noted ‘exceptional performance’. Leads Working Families’ pro bono programme which involves volunteer solicitors from private practice forming an integral part of the legal advice function, most of them helping via the ground-breaking email platform she set up with city law firms (including Linklaters, Herbert Smith and Freshfields) in 2017. The number of solicitor volunteers, now nearly 200, has increased ten-fold in the past three years.Is part of the senior leadership team of the charity and is the budget holder of the Legal Advice Services. Generated a new stream of significant, regular, fundraising from city law firms; and has developed Working Families’ revenue-generating legal training service which is offered to other charities in related sectors.Takes an active part in the policy work of the charity and regularly represents Working Families in the media, in discussions with the government and in front of Parliamentary Select Committees. Has a crucial role in fundraising from the application to the reporting stages. Show less

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  Maternity action

  Sept 2020 - Nov 2020

  Legal advice
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  Protect

  Nov 2020 - now

  Legal director

  Leading Protect's legal advice team working alongside employers, regulators and whistleblowers. She has in-depth knowledge of the law and the practical realities of whistleblowing and has a key role in Protect’s current legal reform campaign, pushing for innovative and much needed improvement to the UK whistleblowing legal framework. She also has wide-ranging expertise in helping organisations improve their whistleblowing arrangements and ‘speak up’ culture.

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  Université paris-dauphine, london campus

  Sept 2022 - now

  University lecturer

  UK employment law lecturer