Pictured above: Employment lawyer Amanda Pillinger (left) with Sally Morris, her head of department at MFG Solicitors.

Midland law firm MFG Solicitors has strengthened its employment law division with a new recruit.

Amanda Pillinger joins the firm as an associate from Harrison Clark in Worcester.

Amanda said: "I am delighted to be joining a firm that is pre-eminent in the field of employment law - which I am going to find both challenging and stimulating."

Amanda, who lives in Salford Priors, Worcestershire, studied music at Surrey University. After initial training at the College of Law in Guildford she qualified at Eversheds in Birmingham before moving to Heatons in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham and later Harrison Clark.

She has acted for a number of high profile clients both regionally and nationally, advising on many employment matters, in particular whistle-blowing, unfair dismissal and discrimination.

Amanda has also spent some years working in the field of licensing for pubs and clubs, and hopes this knowledge and experience will also be useful to clients of MFG.

Amanda's head of department is partner Sally Morris, who said: "Amanda was outstanding as a candidate for this post and we are delighted she has chosen to join our firm."

Amanda, a keen pianist, is married to Redditch firefighter Craig Pillinger, whom she has known since childhood. They have two children, five-year-old Alex and one-year-old Emily.

She was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, where Lord Olivier and Douglas Bader were pupils.