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YESS is delighted to announce the appointment of Shyam Popat as our new CEO from September 2025. Shyam is currently Chief Operating Officer & Director of Casework at Advocate and has also worked at South West London Law Centres. We are confident he has exactly what it takes to lead YESS and the team in…

We are pleased to announce that Clare Fowler will become Acting CEO on Karen Teago’s departure in May 2025. Clare joined YESS as a Senior Solicitor in 2020 and is currently Head of Business Development and an accredited mediator. She will ensure the smooth running of YESS during the leadership transition phase. Clare will stay…

Are you a compassionate and emotionally intelligent leader committed to making a difference to people’s working lives and wellbeing?  YESS is seeking a vibrant and engaging person with relevant leadership experience to take over as CEO, to consolidate and build on recent growth and maintain YESS’s reputation as a leading national employment law advice charity.…

YESS Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Saher Osman as Mediation Lead. This is a new role marking a significant step forward in our mission to promote mediation, an underrated and underused tool in early workplace dispute resolution. Saher joined YESS Law in 2018 and trained as a mediator in 2021, since which…

We were delighted to welcome so many of our friends and colleagues to Somerset House this week to celebrate 10 years of YESS Law. Thank you to everyone who made it such a wonderful evening, and particularly to Mi Kelly for these fabulous photographs. If you were unable to make it, you can read Karen’s…

Managing people means dealing with a range of people and personalities.  As neurodivergent people make up roughly 15% of the workforce, there is a good chance that this will include some of your staff.  Your organisation should have supportive practices and procedures in place that can help every team member to work at their best.…

After six and a half years of building and growing YESS with Camilla (and more recently as Joint CEO with Karen) Emma has decided to step down as Joint-CEO to become a Consultant Solicitor focusing on mediation. You can read more about Emma’s decision and her reflections on her time at YESS here. This means…

As Emma Webster steps down as Joint-CEO she looks back on over 6 years of hard work, from growing YESS from scratch with Camilla to where we are now, helping hundreds of clients every year.   I started this blog several times. I hate those leaving blogs that read like an obituary or an Oscars…

      We are delighted and extremely proud to have been named as one of The Times 200 Best Law Firms 2019! We are one of just 30 legal service providers listed for employment law expertise, as recommended by other lawyers. For us to be recognised alongside leading commercial firms, confirms that our unique…