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Naomi Pollock

Legal Director
Dublin
About

Naomi delivers practical, commercially focused advice to domestic and international clients across the full employment relationship. She advises on complex workplace disputes, strategic workforce projects and global mobility matters, working closely with HR and in-house legal teams to translate legal risk into clear, workable decisions.

Her practice spans employment litigation, workplace investigations, protected disclosures, senior exits, post-termination restrictions, pay transparency and the employment aspects of corporate transactions. Naomi also advises on Irish business immigration, including employment permits, right-to-work compliance, business travel and the immigration implications of restructurings and transactions.

Having practised in both Ireland and the UK, Naomi brings a practical cross-border perspective to clients whose People and Legal teams operate across both jurisdictions.

Areas of FocusEmploymentTechnologyFinanceLife Sciences
Professional QualificationsSolicitor regulated by the Law Society of IrelandSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

Employment advisory and disputes

  • Advising employers on sensitive workplace investigations, protected disclosures, disciplinary and grievance processes, and related litigation risk.
  • Acting on complex employment litigation, including discrimination, unfair dismissal, penalisation, whistleblowing, restrictive covenant and injunctive relief matters.
  • Advising on senior executive exits, large-scale termination exercises and strategic workforce decisions.
  • Advising domestic and international clients on projects relating to the EU Pay Transparency Directive, including worker categorisation, objective job-evaluation criteria, remediation planning and governance.
  • Advising on workforce planning, the employment aspects of corporate transactions and post-termination restrictions.

Global mobility and business immigration

  • Advising a retail client on right-to-work processes and the management of terminations where employees did not hold valid permission to work.
  • Advising a large pharmaceutical company on a business-travel project and related policies.
  • Conducting business immigration due diligence and advising on the immigration implications of mergers and corporate transactions.
  • Assisting employers with Irish employment permit applications, entry visas, the employment permits portal and right-to-work compliance.
  • Advising employer-of-record providers and international businesses establishing operations in Ireland on work-permission requirements.
Education
  • Certificate in Immigration Law and Practice, Law Society of Ireland
  • Certificate in Commercial Contracts, Law Society of Ireland
  • LL.M (European Economic Law), KU Leuven
  • LL.B, Trinity College Dublin

Prior Experience

Naomi trained, qualified and worked with a top Irish domestic firm for seven years. Prior to joining DLA Piper Ireland, Naomi worked with the employment law team of an international law firm based in London.
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+353 1 436 5487
(Work, Dublin)
+353 862549809
(Mobile, Dublin)