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Moore Barlow launches

New Top 100 firm represents regional powerhouse with unique specialisms and significant strength in private client, property and personal injury.

New top 100 UK law firm Moore Barlow has launched, resulting from the successful merger between Moore Blatch and Barlow Robbins. The combination establishes a new regional powerhouse firm with a significant geographic footprint across the South East, serving clients across the UK and internationally.

In terms of clients, Moore Barlow is focused primarily on meeting the needs of owners and leaders of fast-moving organisations and businesses, private individuals and families, and people whose lives have been affected by serious accidents or negligence. Each of these groups require relationship-oriented legal advisors who are dedicated to helping them find the best path for their circumstances, be that exciting new business opportunities or complex and challenging situations – a focus and approach which sets Moore Barlow apart in the marketplace.

The firm boasts some of the largest and most comprehensive teams of legal advisors in areas such as private client, personal injury, clinical negligence and property. In addition, Moore Barlow has a number of renowned specialisms which include Charities & Not-for-Profits, Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Land Development, and its nationally ranked Independent Schools practice.

Moore Barlow has a combined turnover of almost £40 million, putting it well within the roster of the UK’s top 100 law firms. The firm comprises 70 partners, 272 lawyers and legal professionals, and a total staff of nearly 500 across six UK offices (Guildford, London, Lymington, Richmond, Southampton, and Woking).

Ed Whittington, Managing Partner of Moore Barlow, said: “Bringing together two terrific firms into an even greater, more ambitious and more comprehensive offering for our clients and communities has been an exciting journey, despite the challenging times in which we are all operating. Moore Barlow is one of very few firms with the breadth, depth and resources to meet all the needs of our core client groups, and we firmly believe that our people-led approach will set us apart. We have purposefully created a meaningful governance structure and given many of our partners and employees important parts to play in driving the future of our firm.” ■

Ed Whittington (Managing Partner) & Helen Goatley (Chairman)

NALP announces appointment of new Non-Executive Director to its Board

Chantal Cooke

Amanda Hamilton

Jane Robson

NALP Paralegals, has appointed Chantal Cooke to its Board of Directors.

Cooke joins CEO Amanda Hamilton and Director of Compliance & Regulation, Jane Robson.

Chantal Cooke is an award-winning journalist, co-founder of PASSION for the PLANET radio, and CEO of boutique PR company, Panpathic Communications.

Cooke already sits on NALP’s Governing Board, a position she has held for the last two years. She will retain this alongside her new role on the Board of Directors.

“We’ve worked with Chantal for three years in her capacity as our PR agent and have been really impressed with her skills, knowledge and work ethic. We soon found ourselves turning to her to ask her opinion on issues outside her direct PR remit as we valued her practical, down-to-earth approach to challenges. So, it made perfect sense to ask her to join our Board in an official capacity.” Said Amanda Hamilton, CEO of NALP.

“I’ve loved working with Amanda, Jane and the NALP team over the last few years and have enjoyed making a contribution to the wider business. It is clear that paralegals, and the profession as a whole, deserves greater recognition, and I hope I can contribute to making that a reality.” said Chantal Cooke.

In the coming months, NALP will continue to work to increase awareness of the paralegal profession, both within the legal sector and to consumers and businesses who may need legal support, while also supporting its members to further their legal careers and ensuring affordable legal help is available to everyone.

NALP is also committed to developing and improving relationships with its counterparts in the statutory regulated legal sector and ensuring that as a voluntary regulatory body for the currently unregulated paralegal sector, it is ready for the challenges facing the whole sector, throughout the pandemic and beyond.

NALP, the National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP), is a non-profit Membership Body and the only Paralegal body that is recognised as an awarding organisation by Ofqual (the regulator of qualifications in England). Through its Centres, accredited recognised professional paralegal qualifications are offered for a career as a paralegal professional. www.nationalparalegals.co.uk. ■