Corinne is an immensely experienced and highly respected employment lawyer. She advises both employers and senior executives in relation to the full spectrum of employment-related issues. She particularly enjoys dealing with equal opportunities-related issues in the workplace, dealing with grievance and disciplinary investigations and acting in relation to (often hard-fought) whistleblowing and contract claims.
She also enjoys the strategic challenges of team moves and post-termination restrictions (whether acting for team members, the prospective new employer or the existing employer). Much of her work is in the financial and professional services sectors, including expertise in sexual misconduct in the workplace but she is also active in a wide range of other sectors.
Corinne is recognised by Spear's 500 as a Top Recommended employment lawyer and has been ranked in the Leaders League 2024 edition in Labour & Employment, for representation of Senior Executives as Excellent, and representation of Employers as Valuable Practice.
What clients and directories have said
Corinne was thorough but also caring and highly emotionally intelligent."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corrine was very capable, both technically and practically."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corinne provides strategic advice and is unflappable. She is a very experienced, strategic lawyer."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corrine has been doing this for ages. She instantly knows the way forward and knows the right answer straight away."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corinne Aldridge is my key contact and "go to" for complex and/or difficult partnership and/or employment law advice. She is undoubtedly extremely competent and is able expertly to combine legal analysis with pragmatism. Corinne and her team are also well able to respond to more discrete requests for advice.’
The Legal 500, 2025
Corrine was very capable, both technically and practically."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corinne was thorough but also caring and highly emotionally intelligent."
Chambers and Partners, 2025
Corinne is a great communicator. She is pragmatic, accessible and available."
Chambers and Partners, 2024
She is a very experienced employment lawyer. You know you will get good judgement from Corinne."
Chambers and Partners, 2024
Corinne Aldridge is a great litigator and adviser. She handles very sensitive cases calmly, sensibly and with good judgment. Clients can have confidence in her advice."
The Legal 500, 2024
I have referred many colleagues and friends to Corrine over more than a decade for a wide variety of matters, and the feedback has been stellar in every instance. She is truly committed to putting her clients’ interests first, and is extraordinarily deft at balancing empathy for the client and their circumstances with realism about the cost/benefit of their potential claims. I have absolute confidence in Corinne’s advice and she is always my first call and number one recommendation for handling employment claims."
Legal 500 UK 2023
She's very good - pragmatic and commercial. She gets good results and is very experienced."
Legal 500 2020
Leaders League -Labor & Employment - Representation of employers/Representation of senior executives 2024
- Rank : Valuable Practice
- Rank: Excellent
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
- FCA case: how should HR handle flexible working requests? - Quoted in Personnel Today, January 2024
- I sued my boss for making me walk home late - Quoted in The Sunday Times, December 2023
- Taxpayers face footing extra holiday pay bill for civil servants after legal ruling - Quoted in The Telegraph, October 2023
- Clubbing to candlemaking: how companies are handling #MeToo - Quoted in The Times, April 2023
- Legal teams expect a rise in HR issues in 2023 - Quoted in HR Magazine, January 2023
- The rise of the ‘sugar boss’: Employers are showing appreciation to their staff by splashing out on lavish gifts—but does that cross a line? - Quoted in Fortune Magazine, January 2023
Recent work
- Corinne has recently been acting for a senior executive against a major bank in relation to a whistle blowing claim, achieving a favourable resolution after having issued employment tribunal proceedings.
- She has recently been advising an employer client in relation to unfair dismissal, age discrimination and whistleblowing claims. The dispute was resolved and litigation was avoided.
- She has also recently been advising an employer client in relation to a collective redundancy exercise, assisting the client to deal with the matter in an orderly and considerate way, while at the same time minimising any legal risks.
Some notable cases include:
- GFI Group v Eaglestone: a leading High Court case in relation to the enforcement of garden leave clauses
- Barton v Investec: a leading Employment Appeal Tribunal case in relation to sex discrimination with regard to bonuses
- Tullett Prebon v El Hajjali: a High Court case concerning liquidated damages clauses in employment contracts
- Western Union Services v Anastasiou: an Employment Appeal Tribunal case in relation to whistleblowing
Professional societies and memberships
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
- The Employment Lawyers Association
- International Bar Association
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Discrimination Law Association (DLA)
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Industrial Law Society (ILS)
Corinne is a trustee of a children’s charity, Kids’ City, which aims to advance the education and development of school-age children through providing recreational and educational activities outside school. Corinne is also a Chair of Governors for a local school.
