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Sandra
Wallace

UK Managing Partner,
DLA Piper

S andra has been a lawyer with DLA Piper since for stand-out clients on the full remit of employment law
services. She offers strategic and commercial advice on
graduating in 1992, and became a partner in 2001.
She specialises in employment law and was the
relations, particularly complex disciplinary and grievance
firm’s UK Head of Employment between 2012-2015. Sandra business reorganisations, executive disputes and employee
has a market-leading reputation, advising a portfolio of matters. Sandra has built up a reputation acting on high-
UK and multi-national businesses including NCR, Hilton, level discrimination and equality and diversity matters and
Genting and Avon. is able to support clients on their complete employment law
She took up the role of UK Managing Partner last year. Her requirements.
remit is to lead the 2,000 legal and business services staff In a recent interview, Sandra said: “I want to retain,
that are based in the UK’s seven major centres of London, support and develop our top talent and attract new talent to
Birmingham (where Sandra is located), Sheffield, Leeds, the business at all levels. As a firm, we value diversity and
Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh – working locally, respect for the individual. We believe in developing all our
nationally and internationally as the client need demands. people and rewarding achievements fairly.
She embodies the firm and its strategic values and is “I promote an inclusive culture in which everyone has the
committed to putting clients at the heart of everything the opportunity to progress their career and where pathways to
firm does, as well as delivering high quality and consistency career progression are transparent. Valuing diversity and
to the clients on a local and global level. really believing in teamwork, we celebrate and draw on our
To this end, she espouses the ‘One UK’ ethos, which sees strengths as a diverse, multi-cultural, multi-jurisdictional
the firm operate seamlessly as a single team guaranteeing global firm. We are committed to developing the capability
the same level of service for a client’s needs, no matter from of our people and helping them to realise their potential by
which UK office the work is done. achieving a consistently high standard in managing, training
Sandra has a market-leading reputation in the UK – acting and supporting them and developing their careers.”

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