Julie Morris, Partner

• Area of expertise: Employment
• Office: London - Swinton House
• Email:j.e.morris@rjw.co.uk
• Telephone:020 7447 8302

Julie Morris is a partner in the London office of the Employment department.

Julie has experience in all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in senior executive discrimination and equal pay claims, as well as collective consultation issues. Julie is also an expert in maternity issues, having advised on the Maternity Alliance helpline for 5 years. She advises a range of clients, particularly high profile city clients and those in the media sector.

Julie has achieved a number of six and seven figure settlements for clients, including significant and high profile whistleblowing claims, one against a major advertising company as well as a very high value claim against a City bank. She has also acted for a number of senior executives in sex discrimination and equal pay claims, including for a partner in a City law firm, several senior executives in Investment and High Street Banks and a senior director in the asset management field.  She was the solicitor acting for Ms Sharp in her complex equal value case against Caledonia Investments Limited, where the Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed that employers do have to be able to properly and objectively justify any reasons put forward for a difference in pay, a significant step forward in equality law.

Julie is also a member of the Employment Lawyers Association pro bono committee, and was its former Chair.  She also sits on the Employment Lawyers Association Training Committee. Julie completed her articles at City firm, Ashurst Morris Crisp, qualified in 1999 and joined Russell Jones & Walker in 2001. She was made a partner in 2004. Julie studied at Leeds University, followed by Nottingham Law School. She has always been an avid traveller and has a keen interest in photography.

 Julie has been recommended in the leading legal directories:

 Legal 500, 2008 edition:

"The ebullient Julie Morris is recommended for her discrimination work"

Chambers and Partners as a Leader in her Field:

"Julie is an "experienced partner" who "knows which buttons to push" when it comes to employee-oriented work. She undertakes a wide range of work with a particular emphasis on equal pay, maternity and discrimination matters."

Chambers and Partners, 2008 edition:

"Julie Morris handles maternity discrimination and equal pay matters in a “professional and sensible manner,” impressing peers and clients with her finely tuned skills. She acted in the equal pay case Sharp v Caledonia Group Services, which settled before reaching the Court of Appeal, with compensation secured for Ms Sharp"

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