Katherine Sheerin is Head of Employment & Data Privacy at Maher Law. Katherine is one of the Isle of Man’s leading employment lawyers with over 20 years’ experience advising multi-national employers and well-known names on all aspects of employment law, business immigration and data privacy. She handles contentious and non-contentious matters with characteristic attention to detail, commerciality and responsiveness.
Katherine is dual-qualified as an English solicitor (non-practising) and is particularly experienced in handling professional disciplinary cases and advising in regulated sector contexts. These form a significant part of her core practice along with senior terminations, equality and whistleblowing claims and complex performance/capability issues.
Clients particularly value her guidance on tricky or entrenched workplace situations and the effectiveness and clarity of the advice and training she provides on numerous employment topics.
Katherine is ranked as a leading lawyer by independent directories Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners and her recommendations include:
Legal 500
• Katherine Sheerin is an exceptional employment lawyer. She is able to see the bigger picture and provides pragmatic advice to clients. A real winner.
• Katherine Sheerin is an excellent and experienced employment law practitioner who is technically very strong, highly pragmatic and always responsive within relevant time frames.
• Responsive, very knowledgeable, able to advise on multi-jurisdictional matters at short notice.
Chambers UK
• Katherine is an excellent all-round employment lawyer.
• Katherine is noted for her strong expertise in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
• Prompt, pragmatic and provides measured advice.
• Katherine is highly knowledgeable and always considers the commercial circumstances when giving advice. She is also a very strong presenter and my first port of call on the Isle of Man.
• She understands the commercial needs in relation to employment matters. She is extremely easy to work with and explains situations clearly, providing a number of options for consideration.
