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15 January 2026
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
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Watershed—Rob Elliott

Employment firm expands capability with experienced hire

Watershed has appointed Rob Elliott to its growing team, strengthening its employment law offering. Elliott brings more than 20 years’ experience advising employers across sectors including government, retail, health, hospitality, logistics, professional services, digital and higher education.

He joins Watershed as an employment lawyer following a career spanning consultancy, private practice and in-house roles, including positions at Croner Consulting, Qdos Consulting, Bray & Bray Solicitors, Abbey HR/AHR, Firstsource and Serco. His work covers complex investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, discrimination matters, restructures, redundancies, TUPE, senior exits and employment tribunal defence.

Victoria Young, managing director at Watershed, said Elliott brings ‘extensive respondent-side experience and a calm, solutions focused approach’, adding that his background reflects ‘the way we operate, close to clients, pragmatic and involved in the real decision-making’.

Elliott said Watershed offers ‘something genuinely different’, highlighting ‘high-impact work, autonomy and the chance to build meaningful relationships with clients’, and said he was looking forward to supporting clients with ‘practical, commercial, and outcomes-focused employment law advice’.

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