Briony McDermott > Flint Bishop > Derby, England > Lawyer Profile
Flint Bishop Offices
Pinnacle Building
2 Prospect Place, Pride Park
Derby
DE24 8HG
England
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Briony McDermott
Work Department
Employment
Position
Briony McDermott advises businesses on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She provides practical, tailored advice to help clients manage legal and HR challenges, and delivers training sessions, legal updates, and HR forums to keep clients informed.
Career
With over 10 years’ experience, Briony has advised across education, agriculture, construction, and care sectors. She has expertise in contracts, employee handbooks, bespoke policies, settlement agreements, redundancies, restructures, and TUPE transfers.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association
Industrial Law Society
Education
Law Degree, Sheffield Hallam University
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Public sector > Public sector
Flint Bishop routinely advises a range of educational establishments, extending across the education sector, on matters including academy conversions, data protection, governance, and commercial contract issues. Stacey Cox sits as the head of the education team, lending her broad employment experience to various education clients. Briony McDermott is a key point of contact for academy conversions in particular.
East Midlands > Employment > Employment
Located in Derby, Flint Bishop primarily act for employers, advising clients on a range of employment issues, including advising on contract and policy drafting, and unfair dismissal claims. Practice head Stacey Cox takes the lead on a variety of discrimination cases, with a focus on the manufacturing and residential care sectors. Noted for her ‘informed and commercially focused decisions’, Briony McDermott advises on Employment Tribunal claims and restructuring issues. Becky Madden leads on gross misconduct cases and TUPE transfers, with a primary focus on residential care matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Public sector