Michelle Last

“Michelle is a pleasure to work with, no nonsense, measured advice, very professional. ”

“I have worked with Michelle for a number of years now and found her to be an outstanding HR lawyer. Her ability to articulately and quickly get to the core of an issue and find a fair and legal solution continues to impress me. I would highly recommend Michelle to anyone with a complex people issue to resolve as either an employee or employer. ”

“Michelle consistently provides a professional service. Her expert advice and guidance is sound, extremely reliable and delivered with a personable approach. Michelle has always taken the time to explain without jargon and I would recommend her to my network without hesitation.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Michelle when she served as our legal advisor during a challenging TUPE transfer. As an employee representative for a group of transferring employees, I found her advice to be exceptionally clear and pragmatic. Michelle's excellent communication skills were instrumental in keeping the wider group informed and ultimately helping us navigate the terms of our ongoing employment. With her guidance, we successfully negotiated terms with an ill-advised counterparty who had unrealistic expectations. I highly recommend Michelle to anyone seeking a knowledgeable and effective legal advisor.”

“Michelle is a rare combination of legal sharpness and genuine care. She brings clarity, professionalism, and discretion to every interaction, with a strategic mindset that makes you feel safe and empowered. I highly recommend Michelle to any executive, HR leader, or board member who values thoughtful, pragmatic legal advice.”

“Michelle has an exceptional ability to balance genuine kindness with clear, candid communication, impressive efficiency and expertise. She supported me through an indescribably challenging time with advice that was consistently thoughtful, practical, and direct. What stood out was not only her sincerity and insight, but the deep awareness she gained of the personal impact the situation had on me and my family. She approached every interaction with both professionalism and empathy. For all of these reasons, and many more, I would recommend her highly and without hesitation.”

“Michelle helped us out at short notice with a partnership separation agreement. She was great! Very responsive and took us through the implications in a way that we could understand. Michelle also coped well with last minute changes in drafts of the various documents.”

“I was introduced to Michelle through a professional contact and I cannot recommend her highly enough. Her passion and belief in what is right and wrong is both admirable and encouraging when dealing with the intricacies of employment law. She went above and beyond for me; including a late night coffee to settle a dispute - Thank you.”

“I have used Michelle on a number of occasions and found her to be efficient, effective, personable, prompt and generally impressive. Thoroughly recommended.”

“Michelle represented me in a dispute with my employer. Despite surprisingly aggressive and acrimonious tactics from my employer, Michelle remained calm, clear headed and positive throughout the process through to conclusion. Professionally and personally I found Michelle's approach consistently helpful. Consequently, it is easy to recommend Michelle.”

“I work with Michelle in my role as HR Director at Air Partner plc. Michelle has provided excellent advice (often at short notice) on numerous challenging employment issues. These have included everything from general contractual and policy advice, employee relations issues, redundancy and restructuring programmes and complex restrictive covenant and non-compete situations. Michelle has a very commercial and pragmatic approach and I have always found her advice to be credible, clear and suitably detailed for the relevant audience.”

“Michelle is very practical, experienced, supportive and easy to work with. I have no hesitation in recommending her and will reach for her number myself should the need arise again.”

“Aspire Business Partnership LLP has used the specialist advice of Michelle Last in relation to complex employment law principles on several occasions. We always find Michelle’s advice to be practical and can rely on her to relate our query to relevant case law and related issues. She always considers the wider picture and we are pleased to recommend her.”

“Michelle provided me with quality, legal advice which was also commercially astute and enabled me to save a significant sum or money. I would thoroughly recommend her.”

“Michelle did some employment work for me and was incredibly efficient, professional and thorough.”

“I have always found my dealings with Michelle extremely friendly and professional. She is always on hand to give sound legal advice and turn around legal letters both accurately and quickly!”

“Working with Michelle has been a real pleasure. Michelle is a highly experienced lawyer, which combined with being understanding and engaged, you have all you need. She can really make the difference thanks to her soft approach, great manners, technical skills, attention to detail and super strong commitment. Most importantly, she always puts always her customer first. I strongly recommend Michelle as a lawyer.”