Beth Leng Partner | Employment Team

Expertise

I help organisations and individuals to realise opportunities and resolve disputes within the employment relationship, including where there are allegations of physical, emotional and financial distress.

I am a specialist adviser on senior executive matters, considering issues of remuneration and terms of employment, opportunities for growth and conflicts in the employment relationship at a senior level.

Much of my work centres around issues of discrimination, equal opportunities and gender equality, representing employers and senior professionals, including solicitors.

My work covers a broad range of sectors including financial services, media, recruitment, luxury goods, charities and not-for-profit organisations.

I also help employers and employees navigate the opportunities and challenges of the new era of agile working and a remote workforce.

I regularly write articles on a range of matters for the media and the SA Law website – you can read some of them here.

Key Experience

  • Injunctive proceedings brought for a national recruitment business to prevent a team joining a competitive entity in breach of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties.

  • Successfully mediated an employment and commercial cross border board level dispute for a multinational technology and securities firm.
  • Pursued and successfully resolved a series of complex sex, maternity and disability discrimination complaints for senior executives of an investment bank.
  • Successfully defended and struck out a claim for historic unpaid bonuses from a former employee of a financial services business.
  • Acted for a large group of employees resisting extensive changes to their terms and conditions of employment following a corporate acquisition.

  • Beth Leng is exceptional. We very rarely go elsewhere. Understands our business and what we are trying to achieve. Quickly grasps a problem, communicates our options and gives us a very clear steer on the best route to progress and gives us confidence we can resolve any issue.

    Legal 500 2023

  • Beth got to grips with the issues at hand very quickly. She drew on other resources and was mindful of recent and high-profile case law that might impact the matter.

    Chambers & Partners 2025

  • "Beth Leng works with a wide range of clients, including individuals, asset managers and third-sector groups, on both contentious and non-contentious matters."

    Chambers & Partners 2026

  • Beth Leng is fantastic. Punchy, direct, creative and responsive. Someone you really want to have on your side.

    Legal 500 2025

  • "Beth is a great lawyer."

    Chambers & Partners 2026

  • Beth Leng is a very sound technical lawyer. However, where she stands out is in her emotional intelligence and her tenacity in fighting for her clients interests. Beth always makes clients feel like she is on their side

    Legal 500 2025

  • "Beth is my number one go-to. She’s just brilliant. I have complete trust in her advice."

    Chambers & Partners 2026

  • Beth Leng is a top tier employment lawyer with a long and successful career prior to joining SA Law. She immediately became a key employment lawyer in her new geographic area. SA Law can handle the full range of employment law with immense intellectual capability and tactical judgement.

    Legal 500 2023

  • Beth Leng is excellent, good with clients and a safe pair of hands.

    Legal 500 2023

  • "My interaction with the employment team has been mainly Beth Leng, partner. She has been very supportive, helpful and provides appropriate and quality advice on a number of employment matters."

    Legal 500 2026

Career & Qualifications

  • Magistrate at Luton Magistrates Court
  • Member of The Employment Lawyers Association
  • Qualified as a Solicitor in 2004

  • Former Vice Chair of Governors at School in Hertfordshire

  • Serves as a Magistrate for the Crime Bedfordshire Bench
  • Worked at Mishcon de Reya, London, 2002 – 2021

Latest insights

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    Is Your Business Summer Ready?

    by Beth Leng and Christine Caffrey

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    Executive Service Agreements and the Reasonable ‘ask’

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    ‘Tis the Season: Office Christmas Parties: The Dos and Don’ts

    by Beth Leng

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    What Impact Will the Recent Judgement for Deliveroo Riders Have on Employers and Employees?

    by Beth Leng

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