A well-known face on the Leicester legal scene says he’s excited to be back running his own business and looking forward to growing his client base in the coming months.
Mike Cummins launched Michael Cummins Employment Solicitors in the summer following recent stints as a legal recruitment consultant and with national law firm Knights.
Mr Cummins said the new business offered employers advice and representation on all aspects of employment law. Based at Grove Park, on the outskirts of Leicester, he said it was already working with clients in the retail, education and business services sectors in Leicestershire and beyond.
The start-up was launched less than four years after he sold his previous company Cummins Solicitors to one of the UK’s biggest law firms Knights, after nine years in business. Prior to opening his last firm he had been a partner at Gateley and then Freeths.
The new team is led by Mike and includes his partner Julie Cummins as marketing manager, legal assistant Hannah Andrews and finance manager Tracey Robinson. Hannah also worked with Mike at Knights where he was client services director.
He said: “It is very exciting to be starting out again. We previously built a well-respected and valued business on the strengths of being friendly, personal, approachable and an effective ally for our clients.
“Michael Cummins Employment Solicitors will also cultivate a similar approach, where practical advice and answers are provided in a partnership with our clients that is characterised by being personally delivered by a focussed and friendly team.
“We are planning for organic growth and keen to say hi to employers looking for advice in their rapidly changing workplaces. Evolving patterns of employment are bringing challenges and opportunities alike for employers and workers. We’re here to help.”
Prior to its sale to Knights at the start of 2019, Cummins Solicitors had operated as a niche law firm specialising in employment law and working with clients including Coventry Building Society, Leicester Tigers, Mountsorrel civil engineers and plant hire specialists Danaher and Walsh, Syston’s Dunelm, Leicester architects Stephen George and Partners as well as a number of schools.
Originally from Birmingham, Mr Cummins took business studies at Leicester Polytechnic in 1989.
From there he went on to Chester College of Law, then trained in Birmingham, before being offered a job heading up a small employment team at the Leicester Gateley office. He became a partner there in 2007 before joining Freeths then going it alone.
He has a masters in employment relations from the University of Leicester.
