Legal 500 Recognises Machins Expertise Across the Firm
Machins Solicitors continues to set the standard for legal excellence, securing its place as a leading firm in family law for the seventh year running in The Legal 500 2026 rankings.
David Rushmere
Employment Individual, Employment Business
Partner, Employment Law Team
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Testimonials
David Rushmere is a superstar. He works tirelessly for his clients, cares deeply about them, and manages to combine an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law with a down-to-earth, practical approach. He is particularly impressive in group actions. He intimidates the city lawyers with his determination and expertise.
Legal 500 2026 Client Testimonial
David Rushmere is the best legal best professional I've worked with and is now our preferred and only choice for employment law advice. Not only a subject matter expert in his field, he is an adept and empathetic communicator.
Legal 500 2025
The depth of expertise across the team is complemented by a genuine passion for law and client success. For instance, David Rushmere exemplifies this with his unparalleled knowledge in employment law, combined with a proactive approach to client counselling, making him a trusted advisor. David Rushmere is bringing fresh perspectives to complex legal issues with his innovative problem-solving skills. His work on my case demonstrated not just legal acumen but a creative approach that led to a good outcome.
Legal 500 2025
David Rushmere has helped our business over a number of years with various commercial law requirements. David will always give you the full picture of any scenario and provide you with his honest advice. No matter what the issue, he will always accommodate your needs.
Legal 500 2025
David Rushmere is unlike any previous employment specialist with whom we have worked previously. He made himself available to support and advise us through a particularly difficult procedure. We often exchanged emails and messages late into the evening and even at weekends prior to formal meetings scheduled for early the following week. His no nonsense, common sense approach was very welcome.
Legal 500 2025
It was a daunting task to consider taking my Multi Million Pound employer to tribunal, but even with my lack of legal knowledge of Employment Law I knew I was wronged. I contacted Machins and assigned to David Rushmore and Philip Bain. They made everything clear and rated my chances of success which agreed with my insurers assessment. After a little stalling, posturing and negotiation, as soon as the tribunal date was set my employer made an out of court settlement far above their first offer.
Review Solicitors - May 2024
David Rushmere handled my redundancy process. Excellent from start to finish.
I believe Sorcha Monaghan and David Rushmere are thorough, fair, and transparent in fighting cases, and establish justice. I would highly recommend Machins Solicitors LLP to anyone seeking experts in employment law
Legal 500 2024
David Rushmere is not only very pleasant and professional, his depth of experience is evident and he’s clearly an expert in his field. David takes the time to understand the detail. His communication is excellent and his expert advice clear. Most importantly to me, David understands my personal priorities and aims in bringing, and has shown great respect for my beliefs and values
Legal 500 2024
David Rushmere’s knowledge of his field, and his ability to interpret, explain and communicate complex law and related issues is remarkable. He is an expert communicator and negotiator
Legal 500 2024
David Rushmere is excellent. He is experienced, has worked at a high level in the sector and can bring that knowledge and understanding to what was, in my case, a relatively minor matter.
Legal 500 2023
David was incredibly efficient and resolved this matter for me with expediency. Friendly, professional service.
David Rushmere has been extremely attentive to our business needs. He has always sought to get to know the business, to fully understand it, before giving his expert opinion and guidance. His business insight and guidance means that he often exceeds his brief in order to build a long term partnership/relationship.
Legal 500 2022
Without your expertise and professionalism we couldn’t have achieved such a positive result.
About David
David is a solicitor-advocate having gained his higher-rights of audience in 2014. He qualified as a solicitor in 2013 after previously qualifying as a Chartered legal executive in 2011.
David spent over 11 years working at BT as part of the in-house legal team. He then spent two years at 3HR Corporate Solicitors, a City law firm specialising in Japanese, Chinese and Korean clients before joining Machins in 2019. He has extensive experience advising clients in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. He has advised senior HR managers and company CEOs on large scale corporate restructures and redundancies. He has conducted in excess of 150 employment tribunal hearings and has appeared before the President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Accolades
- ‘Next Generation Partner’ in the 2026 edition of The Legal 500.
- ‘Leading Partner’ in the 2027 edition of The Legal 500.
Specialist practice areas
- Employment tribunal litigation
- Contract drafting
- Pay and benefits
- Discrimination
- Working time rights
- Whistleblowing
- TUPE
- Redundancy (individual and collective)
- Dismissals
- Trade unions
- Employment law training
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