Full Profile
Devon‑Lee is a Senior Associate in the Employment team. She advises employers on complex and high‑value contentious and non‑contentious employment law matters, with a focus on delivering commercially pragmatic and strategically aligned advice.
Devon‑Lee has significant experience advising on employment contracts and senior executive service agreements and exits, restrictive covenants, redundancy exercises, and the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions. She regularly supports clients on sensitive grievance and disciplinary matters and acts as a trusted adviser on workforce strategy, risk management and day‑to‑day employment issues.
Her contentious practice includes advising on Employment Tribunal claims of varying complexity, including high‑risk discrimination and whistleblowing matters. Devon‑Lee has particular experience in managing strategically important litigation and guiding clients through claims involving reputational or operational risk.
She spent six months on secondment at a global facilities management business employing over 35,000 UK employees, where she gained valuable in‑house experience advising on employment disputes, managing Employment Tribunal litigation and supporting senior stakeholders on workforce issues.
Devon-Lee also regularly presents training sessions to clients on a number of topics including legislation/case law updates and equality and diversity and endeavours to do so in an easy-to-understand, clear manner without complicated legalese.
Devon‑Lee is dual qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales and an Attorney in South Africa.
