Olivia Baxendale

Olivia Baxendale is a Knowledge Development Lawyer in Bird & Bird's International HR Services Group in London. Her practice focuses on Employment Law.

She plays a key role in keeping colleagues and clients ahead of the curve with employment law developments and market trends. Employment is a fast-moving area of law with constant legislative and case law developments driven and impacted by many political, economic and cross-border factors. She monitors these developments both within the UK and across the globe to identify key topics and emerging trends.

She also supports the team with legal research, maintains the firm's internal knowledge system, contributes to internal and external publications, and prepares innovative training and know-how materials. She helps facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration within her team and across the global network. She is particularly interested in current developments in technology and AI and how these can be utilised to capture knowledge and innovate.

Before joining Bird & Bird in January 2024, she gained extensive experience advising clients in all areas of employment law as a senior associate at another firm and as a knowledge lawyer at one of the Big 4. She advised a broad range of clients from start-ups to large multinationals across sectors including retail, technology and the public sector. She has particular expertise in tribunal litigation, representing clients in high-profile, high-value tribunal cases, with a special area of interest in diversity, equality and inclusion matters, and looking at employment law through a global lens.