Shoosmiths Podcasts

Shoospeak HR: The litigation risk: employment edition

Shoospeak HR has relaunched with Amy Frost back again, this time accompanied by Rachel Taylor from the national employment team. Amy and Rachel discuss Shoosmiths’ 2025 Litigation Risk Report and the key themes arising out of it from an employment law perspective.

You can download a copy of the report here: Litigation Risk 2025 report

Listen to the podcast below and send us your feedback to shoospeakhr@shoosmiths.co.uk.

The Shoospeak HR podcast is brought to you by the national employment team at UK law firm Shoosmiths. Tune in for your fix of the latest legal views, thought provoking discussions and opinions about all things employee relations and human resources.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 8: Defend & Protect

How do businesses find the best solution in areas such as enforcement investigations, civil or criminal proceedings or employment tribunal proceedings. Our compliance team shares some key tips.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 7: Investigations

Being prepared is crucial to protecting your business, its officers, and employees, and to managing potential reputational damage and financial losses. Our experts provide some key tips.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 6: Crisis Management

Being prepared is critical but how do you prepare when every crisis is different? We discuss common challenges and key tips with communications consultancy Madano.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 5: Advisory

Identifying, assessing and managing ongoing risks effectively is not easy when there is such a diversity of issues to deal with. So how do businesses rise to that challenge?

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 4: Embedding Compliance

We discuss how businesses create a framework that integrates policies and processes, ensuring compliance is seen as integral to business rather than a burden.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 3: Horizon Scanning

Our compliance team discuss how to use horizon scanning to evaluate and respond to risks from changes in laws, regulations, industry standards, guidance, and geopolitical factors.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 2: Good Governance

We discuss why Increased regulatory responsibilities, the rise of ESG and stricter corporate liability legislation means corporate decision makers need to focus on this subject like never before.

Compliance & Risk Podcast - Eps 1: Introduction

We discuss some of the key compliance challenges companies are facing today and introduce the stages you need to consider in your approach, setting the scene for our series of podcasts.

Start-up Salad with Accendo - Eps 3: Uther Mahmud of Buzzspark

A podcast series talking all things start-up to those in the know.

We hear the real-life journeys, trials, tribulations, and successes to those navigating the start-up space.  

In this episode we talk to Uther Mahmud, founder of Buzzspark about the power of customer stories and authentic content for driving marketing. Uther’s passion for human connection really shines, he speaks incredibly candidly about his experience in building Buzzspark. It was an absolute pleasure to host him in the studio!

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