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Michelle Clarke

Principal Associate

What can I do for you

Michelle is a specialist employment solicitor based in Birmingham. She has over 12 years of experience advising on all areas of employment law, with particular specialisms in employment-related litigation and discrimination. She also advises clients on business immigration matters, including right to work at all stages of the employment relationship. She works with clients of all sizes across various sectors including retail, logistics, telecom, and food service and facilities management.

Supporting your ambitions

Michelle builds trusted, long-term relationships with clients, working in close partnership to deliver tailored, commercially sound solutions. Her pragmatic and practical approach ensures that advice is aligned with clients' values and strategic goals, to deliver meaningful outcomes and lasting value.

In litigation matters, Michelle works in collaboration with key stakeholders to identify their objectives and risk appetite to devise robust, commercial strategies to achieve resolution.

Michelle has supported a large employer with a complex transformation project, working alongside their implementation teams to identify and achieve their immediate priorities and longer-term goals. By gathering regular feedback and identifying trends, she partnered with the client to implement streamlined and efficient processes, resulting in time savings for the client.

What do others say

"Michelle Clarke demonstrates exceptional pragmatism, consistently offering valuable advice when faced with complex challenges."

What else should you know

Michelle regularly presents client and external training on a variety of topics, including need to know employment law developments for HR specialists and managers.

Outside work, Michelle is an amateur hiker and snowboarder.

What our clients say about us

  • I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.
  • They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.
  • All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.
  • I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.

As many clients will testify, too many lawyers deliver the required legal expertise but fail to deliver an outstanding client experience. Which is why we always listen to our clients and constantly ask ourselves what we can do to deliver the results you expect.

You expect a close and attentive working relationship, with a lawyer that is responsive and available when you need them. You also want clear, pragmatic and commercial advice tailored to your needs, and transparency and certainty on costs. We completely agree. That’s why every day, through our culture and approach we are committed to delivering the exceptional results and service our clients expect of us.

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  • Employment