THEEmployment Law Ten

CONVENING NOW · FILMS 2027

Get to know ten founders of Britain's specialist employment law firms: employment law as it is actually practised, in their own words.

NOW CONVENING · FIRST EPISODES 2027
A TEN CHAIRS SERIES
On the Ten Chairs set
THE SERIES, IN BRIEF

Nearly every employment dispute starts the same way: a decision taken quickly, a letter sent, a conversation that should have happened earlier. The expensive part is rarely the decision itself. It is the way it was done.

The ten people in this series run Britain's specialist employment law firms. They have watched the same stories end a thousand different ways, and this is the chance to hear them at length. The same questions go to all of them and the answers sit side by side: when to settle and when to see it through, what a tribunal actually punishes, and the mistakes made long before anyone calls a lawyer. Twelve questions across the year, published in full.

THE EPISODES

One question per episode.
Ten answers, side by side.

Every question goes to all ten chairs, and every episode sets their answers side by side. One publishes every month. It opens with these.

EPISODE 01 What is the most expensive way to let someone go?
EPISODE 02 When is a non-compete worth the paper it is written on?
EPISODE 03 What does a tribunal actually punish: the decision, or the way it was made?
Then it is published as a book, and the questions begin again.

More questions are published as the series convenes.

HOW THE SERIES WORKS
WHO GETS A CHAIR
The people who run the firms, not the loudest voices. A chair cannot be applied for: each one is extended to someone whose answers count.
BETWEEN THE QUESTIONS
Quick-fire rounds, the stories behind each firm, and questions sent in by the people watching run through the year.
HOW THE YEAR CLOSES
When the twelve questions are answered they are published as a book, with the ten who hold the chairs portrayed on the cover. Then the questions begin again.
Questions are put by the series’ editorial desk. There is no host.
THE TEN
NOW CONVENING

Who’s appearing.

The founders of the specialist firms that lead employment law, from senior executive exits to industrial relations, each holding an invited chair.

The ten are being convened now, one invitation at a time. The line up is announced in one go, the way a cast always is, and appears here from launch onwards. Until then no contributor is named: we do not trade on one company’s name to fill the next chair.

NOMINATIONS

Who belongs in these ten?

The ten are found by invitation and by nomination. If there is someone you would put in one of these chairs, tell us who.

Nominations are read by the editorial desk. Chairs remain by invitation.

WHEN IT AIRS

Know the moment Episode 1 airs.

Each episode as it publishes, with its question and what the ten said. Every episode stays, in full, on the Ten Chairs channel on YouTube.

Contributing

Chairs are held by invitation, one company to a specialism; while a chair is held, that discipline is closed. If you lead a company in one of our industries and think you should hold one, tell us about your company.

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