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Jill Donabie

Recognised as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ by Legal 500 UK, Jill Donabie is a Partner at Muckle LLP, Legal 500 Tier 1 Firm for Education. As part of the firm’s Sports, Education and Charities team, Jill advises on a wide range of people related issues in the education sector.

Jill has around 20 years’ of specialist education/employment knowledge and experience in advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues, including:
• employment documentation and day to day employment related issues;
• employment tribunals;
• projects (such as TUPE transfers, redundancies and restructuring);
• collective issues; and
• student and parental issues, including parental complaints, safeguarding, discrimination claims from pupils and special educational needs including SEND tribunals. 

Jill regularly delivers training on a wide range of topics and chairs a networking group of HR professionals in schools. Jill is also chair of governors at a local primary school.