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About Us

ESP Solicitors, part of WorkNest are an SRA-regulated law firm offering technical knowledge and first-class expertise to find the most effective solutions for clients’ employment issues – no matter how complex.

As a combined entity, we provide integrated support services, including a dedicated legal advisory team, online HR resources, insurance-backed employment tribunal representation through ESP Safeguard Ltd, learning and development tools, and access to market-leading ER case management software. We are passionate about focusing on employment law from a strategic perspective, delivering compelling positive change in our clients’ internal capabilities, and proactively supporting their drive for transformation.

Our teams are united by a common goal: delivering commercially focused, peer-reviewed, options-based advice to the HR, ER, and operational client contacts we serve.

Diversity and Inclusion

At ESP, we understand the importance of having an engaged, diverse and inclusive culture. We also recognise that this journey requires continuous improvement, building upon everything that we do, with a commitment to always act with an inclusion lens.

We gathered diversity data to gain a deeper understanding of our people in order to shape the culture of inclusion and ensure that everyone feels valued, no matter who they are. We have a team of allies across the business who form The Inclusion Alliance, who have a strong and significant voice in raising awareness and making small but hugely important steps towards equity, diversity and inclusion.

We still have much to do, but we’re open to learning and fully committed to making progress in this crucial people agenda.

Without our people, we have nothing.

Our values & behaviours

At ESP, we are committed to delivering on our four core values that we believe all our colleagues should align with: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion. Our values were developed by our people at our first ever companywide conference and party, which had a Fifties Fun Fair theme! We hope there will be many more of these collaborative events in the future to embed our culture and guide our strategies (whilst having a bit of fun along the way).

Integrity

Be a role model
Feel empowered and trusted to do the right thing
Do the right thing
Speak up when it’s not right
Excellence

Deliver an excellent service
Provide professional support and cultivate client and colleague relationships
Strive to be great
Learn, develop and evolve
Teamwork

Be one team
Develop, support and nurture
Have fun
Stop, collaborate and listen
Inclusion

Be yourself
Bring your true self to work and encourage others to do the same
Create a safe space
Enable everyone to flourish

"ESP genuinely is a fantastic place to work! The regular communications and events make you feel engaged and included, and everyone, from the colleagues I communicate with every day to the most senior staff members, are open, friendly, and supportive."

Ellie Leyshon

Client Manager
"The ESP culture is so friendly – the best I have ever worked for. I particularly like the yoga sessions, weekly communications, and the fabulous benefits we receive. I am proud to work for a company with ambition, integrity, inclusion, and a genuine love for its employees."

Leanne Dunning

Operations Administrator
"The culture is really friendly and open. You always feel able to sense-check answers and listen to different viewpoints across the team. There are clear efforts to bring new and innovative ideas to keep employees engaged and supported. The pursuit of growth whilst keeping a sense of camaraderie is unparalleled elsewhere."

Charlotte Ashton

Associate Solicitor and Head of Immigration

ESP Benefits

Salary sacrifice Pension scheme
Free Will writing service
Social events throughout the year
Wellbeing talks and classes
Sacrifice Electric Vehicle scheme
Health Cash Plan
Life assurance
PMI scheme

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Our wellbeing charter. It’s OK to...

Be yourself (everyone else is taken!)
Trust your instincts, do the right thing
Say that you are not OK, ask for help and support
Allow your children or pets to gatecrash your video
Prioritise your emotional and physical wellbeing
Not know everything, or say “I don’t know”
Be proud of doing a great job
Wear clothes that you think are appropriate
Challenge things that can be improved
Trust and praise the contributions that others make
Get involved in one of our great causes
Have fun!

ESP in the community

ESP is delighted to have Maggie’s (The Home of Cancer Care) as our Charity Partner. Maggie’s offers the best possible support to anyone dealing with , as well as any of their friends and families who walk through their doors. With the number of people living with cancer in the UK expected to rise to four million by 2030, there is an ever-increasing need to provide expert support and guidance to employees affected by cancer.

Maggie’s has beautiful, boutique centres across the whole of the UK; wherever there is an ESP office, there is a Maggie’s not too far away. This partnership, therefore, feels even more rewarding as it allows us to support a national charity, with local initiatives across our multi-site business. Our VITO (Voluntary Impactful Time Off) benefit means that our colleagues are able to support their local Maggie’s centres through volunteering opportunities, as well as taking part in our national charity initiatives, such as Tour de Maggie’s – our virtual activity week where we covered 2,275 kilometres and raised lots of money along the way.

We are fortunate that ESP can support Maggie’s in more ways than just financially. We provide complimentary employment law advice, eLearning, and an HR System to protect their organisation and advance the way their people work, further enabling their professional growth and supporting their incredible work. Win Win!