About Carl
Carl has over 23 years of post-qualification experience (nine years of which has included data protection work), including many years of in house experience as Senior Employment Lawyer and Data Controller at Northern Foods plc – subsequently acquired by 2 Sisters Foods Group – and Senior Employment Lawyer at Asda Stores Ltd. While in these positions, Carl managed Data Protection Issues for the business while supervised paralegal support staff who dealt with those issues (Asda).
Since returning to private practice, Carl has advised many businesses, public sector organisations and individuals in relation to various data protection issues, most recently advising on several GDPR compliance programmes. His recent experience includes membership of the gunnercooke team which is advising a large international financial services organisation upon GDPR compliance across its international portfolio of Group businesses. This project has been running for ten months and has included extensive reviews of privacy documentation including the privacy statements used by the different Group businesses across the international footprint of the Group. Carl has also advised “The School of Life”, an international coaching organisation, in relation to GDPR compliance across their international businesses structure.
Years of experience
30
About their firm
We were established in September 2010 and in December 2015 reached over 100 partners, operating nationally from offices in London and Manchester.
The firm has won over 20 national and international awards for innovation and service and were recently shortlisted for UK law firm of the year at The British Legal awards.
We believe in being different and our main differentiating factors are:
Certainty over fees – We scope all matters in detail and provide clients with a fixed, certain cost wherever possible.
Certainty over seniority – We are a partner only model. All partners join us having spent at least 10 years at leading national and international firms or in business.
Certainty over innovation - We are committed to constantly improving the way that we work with clients. We will continue to invest in technology and training to ensure that our offering remains innovative and in-line with the progress of clients’ businesses.
These elements allow us to provide real value for money with brilliant client service at the heart of our offering.
For more information on how we stand out from other firms please view our short presentation at http://gunnercooke.com/about-us/
Areas of expertise
- Commercial Law
- IT & E-commerce
- Employment
- Data protection
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Customer Reviews
Carl's greatest strength is his ability to understand your requirement and then to explain how it can be delivered. Whilst he is very clear on the law and its constraints he sees these as barriers to be overcome rather than barriers to delivering the desired outcome. Overall he is a consummate professional who has delivered results time and time again.
Carl has been an integral part of the business. Carl has an exceptionally good understanding of the law. He is a commercially focused lawyer that has shown his ability to work with my HR teams across the business as well as working successfully on senior level individual employment issues. He has advice has also been essential in very important, complicated, collective union matters affecting hundreds of employees by providing detailed, knowledgeable and pragmatic guidance.
- Hired Carl for: Terms and conditions (online) (incl gdpr flow on effects) Data protection
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Verified Lexoo client
Carl was very thorough and provided a long consultation call with advice even prior to us appointing him for the work. We discussed through the requirements and together refined the scope of the project. All of our needs (Data Protection / Privacy Policy review) were met and clearly communicated.
Carl has a very pragmatic and reassuring Style and appears to be on top of his game. He attempts to take the tension and trauma away from this issues and plans everything in detail of the game plan and the expected outcomes We are still progressing on a Case so it would be good to review again.