James Warren is a partner in the Employment and Pensions
Group. He qualified in New Zealand and specialised in employment
law there before transferring to the UK. Prior to joining Field
Fisher Waterhouse in 2003, he gained experience dealing with a
broad range of both contentious and non-contentious employment work
while based in house for a large public sector employer.
James focuses on providing change management advice, regularly
advising on complex public and private sector outsourcing and
reorganisation issues. He also has extensive experience in the
handling of complex unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade
union cases, from the Employment Tribunal level through to the
Court of Appeal, and at the Central Arbitration Committee. In
addition James has expertise and advises frequently on employment
status issues, consultancy agreements, senior executive service
agreements, including international contracts, restrictive
covenants, working time issues and privacy issues in
employment.
James works across the following sectors: financial institutions, technology & communications, energy, life sciences,
hotels & leisure, media & entertainment, public sector, retail,
sport, transport, education, employment businesses and
employment agencies.
James regularly presents at seminars and workshops as part of
the Employment and Pensions Group’s annual training programme. He
has also spoken at external conferences on a variety of employment
law issues and provides in house training for clients. James has
been frequently quoted in newspapers (including the Wall Street
Journal) and other publications on employment law issues. James
also regularly writes for publications such as Employers
Law and Personnel Today and his articles have
featured in the Employment Law Journal and the
Financial Times.