Debra Gers
Senior practice support lawyer
Contact details
029 2068 6164
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Debra is the Senior Practice Support Lawyer for the Employment, Pensions, Benefits and Immigration (EPBI) Group. She monitors key cases and legislative developments and provides legal updates to clients on topical issues as well as future developments.
Main areas of practice
Debra is responsible for the EPBI Group’s client and public employment training programme, including the Employment Forum webinars and helps public and private sector clients across the country to keep up to date with the changes in and on top of the challenges of employment law. Debra has significant experience in providing training for a wide range of clients in the private sector as well as the education, health and social housing sectors.
She devises and presents training seminars across a broad spectrum of employment law issues and utilises a range of training materials from case studies, PowerPoint presentations, role plays and quizzes. Debra takes a very interactive approach to training to ensure key employment topics are covered in an informative and practical way.
Debra is a regular speaker at conferences and external events.
Expertise & Services
Career
Debra gained a BA Hons (2:1) at King’s College at the University of London. She then completed her CPE and Law Society Finals at Lancaster Gate at the College of Law. She qualified in 1988.
Debra has a BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection.
Debra is a trained Mental Health First Aider.
Debra has been a volunteer at the Cardiff Pro Bono Employment Law Clinic for many years.
Contact details
029 2068 6164
Email Debra
Memberships
- ELA Association
 - Law Society Diversity Forum
 
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