Partner

Miriam Bruce

Employment Litigation & Counseling, Employment & Benefits, Global Mobility & Migration

London +44 20 3130 3695

mbruce@mayerbrown.com

Miriam is "tenacious and engaging' 'commercial and pragmatic. Excellent. Very responsive."
"Miriam is a brilliant lawyer who has an uncanny ability to simplify even the most knotty of legal dilemmas." She "is absolutely excellent - super responsive and creative in her approach."

Legal 500, Next Generation Partner / Chambers

Overview

Miriam Bruce has been recognized in the legal directories for a number of years and is listed as a "Next Generation Partner" by Legal 500 and an “Up and Coming” Partner in Chambers UK.

Highly experienced, Miriam deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and acts for clients across a variety of sectors, including insurance, financial services, retail and manufacturing. She has a particular interest in diversity, equity and inclusion matters and has led teams on innovative and award winning multi-jurisdictional projects in this area. Read more here >>

Her advisory experience includes providing strategic input on issues such as: restructuring and contractual change programmes as well as business transfers (both in the UK and internationally), executive and senior level recruitment, employee data privacy, and complex investigations and related disciplinary and grievance matters. Miriam has particular experience in managing global employment law projects across a number of jurisdictions on issues including cross-border redundancies, outsourcings and the collection and storage of diversity data. She regularly advises on the employment implications of high profile administration and/or restructuring matters. Read more here>>

Miriam’s contentious experience includes acting for employers in complex Employment Tribunal hearings. She also has significant experience in both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court, dealing with high profile and high value discrimination and breach of contract claims.

Miriam speaks regularly at internal and external events on employment law related issues.

Miriam joined Mayer Brown in 2005 as a trainee and qualified in 2007.

Recognition

Band 4: Employment. Miriam Bruce is a highly regarded partner at Mayer Brown who regularly advises clients from the financial services and insurance industries on the full range of employment matters. She is experienced in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims. "Miriam is a brilliant lawyer who has an uncanny ability to simplify even the most knotty of legal dilemmas." "Miriam is a pleasure to work with. She is a commercially astute lawyer who has an ability to apply her wide-ranging understanding of the law while recognising and balancing risks to the business." "She is absolutely excellent - super responsive and creative in her approach." "She is very pragmatic, she has a great depth of knowledge in employment law and she provides very sound advice." Miriam "can see the wider commercial picture beyond the strict legal position, her responses are always very timely and she is an effective communicator."- Chambers UK
Listed as a Next Generation Partner and key lawyer for Employers - "Stand-out partners are Miriam Bruce and Chris Fisher. Both of whom always have their client’s ear. They combine commercial common-sense and robust legal analysis." "Commercial and understanding. Excellent client service mindset." "Miriam Bruce – tenacious and engaging. Commercial mindset and pragmatism." "Miriam Bruce is excellent. Very responsive. Is commercial and pragmatic." "The Mayer Brown team provide practical and pragmatic advice to us. They are very easy to work with and reliable." "Miriam Bruce is a really smart and practical lawyer. She always sets us at ease, even when we’re dealing with a complex matter or a difficult individual" "Top litigation team for employment disputes, especially High Court Injunction work". "Her approach to litigation is grounded in sound commercial common sense. Clients – and her team – rightly trust her judgment." - Legal 500
Winner: Standout Diversity in Innovation – Legal Innovation Awards 2022
Recognition: Legal Technology Trailblazers – National Law Journal 2022

Up and coming, Miriam Bruce is a highly regarded partner who regularly advises clients from the financial services and insurance industries on the full range of employment matters. She is experienced in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims. "She is very pragmatic, she has a great depth of knowledge in employment law and she provides very sound advice." "She can see the wider commercial picture beyond the strict legal position, her responses are always very timely and she is an effective communicator." Miriam is "very organised, knowledgeable and sensible" and noted as being "highly responsive, practical, sensible and always clear and straightforward." – Chambers UK
Miriam Bruce is "clever, good judgement, dedicated, warm." She "is a lovely person to work with, personable and client-focused. She generates trust quickly. She delivers technical advice in a comprehensible, accessible way" and she "has been excellent on a significant team move matter she handled for us – unflappable under pressure and generally very personable and easy to deal with." – Legal 500.
In a significant development to the team, the "excellent" Miriam Bruce was promoted to partner in January 2020. Her recent work includes transactional support on high-value deals, strategic advisory work and handling sensitive exits of senior executives. "Miriam Bruce is excellent: intelligent, client-focused and super-savvy. Miriam Bruce and Paris partner Julien Haure are incredibly responsive; always on hand to help and able to judge urgency very well. Practical and effective advice and they take the time to discuss and understand the matter fully". Mayer Brown International LLP’s "excellent" team is "an authority in employment" and "should be a first stop for City clients" Miriam Bruce is "a real joy" – Legal 500

Education

Inns of Court School of Law, Legal Practice Course
City University, London, Post Graduate Diploma in law
University of Durham, BA (Hons) Modern Languages

Admissions

England and Wales

Languages

English
French
German