Local lawyers beef up employment team
(CNS): Locally based law firm Appleby’s has expanded its Cayman Business Team with the admission of Shaun Cockle (left) as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands. Cockle joins Appleby’s Employment and Immigration section where he will join Nathania Pearson, Pamella Mendez and Bonnie Douglas working on the increasing number of employment and immigration related cases the firm said on Wednesday. Nick Joseph, who leads the Cayman Employment and Immigration Team, moved the application before Justice Cooke saying that Cockle’s expertise in employment law will be an asset to Appleby’s growingteam.
The attorney joins the Cayman office with well over ten years’ experience working in a specialist employment law capacity, Appleby’ssaid. His prior experience includes six years as in-house Employment Counsel at the United Kingdom Government’s Treasury Solicitors’ London office and, from 2006 until his arrival in the Cayman Islands, as a Specialist Employment Solicitor at the leading London firm of Field Fisher Waterhouse.
Cockle said it was a great pleasure to join the growing Appleby team and he was honoured to assist with the myriad of increasingly technical issues facing employers and employees in the Cayman Islands.
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