Florence is the founder of Bellevue Law, and specialises in litigation, dispute resolution and employment law.
Florence trained and qualified, in 2000, at leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she worked for eight years, including time in the firm’s London, Brussels and Hong Kong offices, before moving to the London office of the US firm Debevoise & Plimpton prior to founding Bellevue Law in 2014.
Florence handles both commercial disputes and employment law matters and she advises a range of clients including individual employees, founders and entrepreneurs and owner-managed, fast-growth and long-established businesses. Many of her clients are fellow lawyers and law firms.
Florence is recommended in the current editions of both the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories. She is ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners 2022, where client feedback states: "She gives excellent advice. She is very good at extracting the useful parts of the story, assessing the situation and giving a correct assessment of the pros and cons" and "She has confidence and an empathetic nature and, at the same time, she is pragmatic and clear."
In Chambers & Partners 2021 clients stated: "She has great experience and is great to work with" and "She has excellent attention to detail, good commercial sense and is very pragmatic. She always wants to go the extra mile for her client."
She is also ranked as a leading individual in the Legal 500 2022, which describes her as being "extremely diligent and fiercely bright", "an outstanding individual" and "lauded for providing 'astute' advice on the gamut of discrimination claims and negotiated exits."
In the Legal 500 2021, clients described Florence as "full of energy and unflappable", "demonstrat[ing] a real sense of judgement in identifying issues and dealing with them pragmatically such that most of her focus was on the real deal killers. Superb articulation and summary to me of the risk factors" and "excellent, very understanding and her advice is outstanding. Very strategic approach and very strong experience advising employees in finance."
Both directories recognise Florence’s experience in the financial and professional services sectors, and advising on discrimination claims.
"In my 25 years of experience, the most operational employment attorney I have worked with. Period."
"Florence had been such a calming, wonderful person to work with. She sincerely fought for my case and I had 100% trust in her, her team, and that I received the best possible results considering how difficult the nature of my case was." – Legal 500 2022