We take the time to truly understand your commercial objectives and provide specific, pragmatic solutions, tailored to you. We have offices in Cumbria and Newcastle and our client base ranges from regional SME’s, to national clients in the education and lending sectors; we offer a full spectrum of employment and HR services including:

  • Our Employment Rights Act 2025 Legal Support Package to help you prepare for the coming changes – if you’re not sure if you’re compliant with the Employment Rights Act changes you can complete our Health Check here.
  • Advising on day to day issues such as disciplinary steps, absences, drafting of contracts/handbooks, corporate support and handling of Employment Tribunal claims
  • We are always clear with our clients on how much we charge for the work we do and our Employment Law Retainer  provides our clients with the option of substantial discounts from our usual rates.
  • Our Employment team has successfully established a unique training unit, delivering bespoke Employment Law Training sessions to employers on all employment issues, helping you educate and empower your workforce while also complying with your mandatory training duties. We are incredibly proud to offer a different style to that of other firms. You can find out all about our bespoke training options here.

Our team is reliable and efficient – easy to get hold of, easy to work with and easy to talk to.

“A massive thank you to all the team at Burnetts for the professionalism they showed on the sale of our company. I was unaware prior to the sale, of all the different fields of expertise within the company!

As a female business owner, I found it extremely comforting to have Jen, Rebecca and Anna helping to navigate me through all the processes and procedures. This personal approach from Burnetts and in particular the ladies was simply amazing. They all explained in fine detail the steps ahead for us as a company and for me as an individual from start to finish. This took a huge amount of stress away from me at an extremely intense and anxious time!

So thank you again Burnetts you are all amazing. We couldn’t have done it without you!”

Lindsay Telford

Former owner of Telford Škoda