Lanyon Bowdler solicitors

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Lanyon Bowdler solicitors

We congratulate three of our employees who have qualified as solicitors. Former trainees Abi Croft, Emma Cousins, and Laura Jones qualified as solicitors in September. All three have stayed with the firm on qualification: Abi has taken up a role in Corporate & Commercial, Emma in Residential Property, and Laura with the Family team. Well done to the three of you, we look forward to seeing your careers develop and blossom in your new roles within the firm.

We have a newly appointed partner within the firm. With effect from 1 October 2022, Phil Roberts become a partner. Phil works as a solicitor in the Personal Injury team at our Hereford office. He qualified in August 2004 and joined us in September 2017, as our first Hereford based personal injury lawyer. Phil has become a valued and respected member of the team and we congratulate him on his promotion.

Congratulations to Toni Reeves on qualifying as a Solicitor. Toni has worked within our Court of Protection Department since February 2020, she joined us as a Legal Support Assistant, going on to qualify as a Chartered Legal Executive in July 2022 and was admitted as a solicitor in August. Toni specialises in Court of Protection and mental capacity matters and her experience includes both lay and professional property and affairs deputyship applications, lay health and welfare deputyship applications, creating Personal Injury Trusts and supporting senior members of the team with the ongoing management of professional deputyships.

Welcome to our five new trainees

In September we welcomed five new trainees to the firm as they start the next stage of the legal careers. Sarah Gallagher whose first seat will be in Clinical Negligence. Stephanie Merrill moves from her role as a medical legal assistant to take up a training contract, with her first seat being in Clinical Negligence. Afsarah Haque-Hassan and Leanne Jones both join the Private Client team for their first seats. Emily Mouland changes from her previous role with us as a paralegal and takes her first seat with the Court of Protection team. They join Alys Bratch, Eleanor Howells, Miriam Homer, Rachel Tomley, Savhan Lyall and Sophie Burgoyne who are already training to be solicitors at Lanyon Bowdler.

Very best wishes to Andrew Evans for his retirement

Andrew retired completely from the firm on 30 September 2022. We congratulate Andrew on his very long and exemplary service, he joined the firm on 11 September 1989, 33 years ago. His association with the firm as it is now goes back even further; he started his career as an article clerk with Morgans back in 1978 and after that was with Beaumont Smith & Davies for 7 years, becoming a salaried partner there, before leaving to join Lanyon Bowdler. Andrew has been a partner for 30 years and has been department head, board member, and senior partner. He has contributed so much to the firm in those roles, as well as in his legal work. He is widely respected by his clients, by the members of the legal profession who know him and by allied professionals as a superb commercial property lawyer.

PI Awards

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for two categories at the upcoming Personal Injury Awards 2022. Clinical Negligence Team of the Year and Beth Heath has been shortlisted for Clinical Negligence Lawyer of the Year.

The Personal Injury Awards is the pinnacle of professional excellence, showcasing the best and brightest law firms, lawyers and service providers that the sector has to offer. The event has been honouring excellence within the personal injury sector for 15 years and it is a superb achievement to be recognised as a finalist. The awards ceremony takes place on 24 November in Manchester.

The Legal 500

Following the results of The Legal 500 2023 edition, we are delighted to have maintained our Tier One ranking for Agriculture & Estates in the West Midlands and Tier Three in Wales, our Clinical Negligence team also stay in Tier One.

It is good news for the Employment team who have moved up to Tier Three and all other departments have kept their previous rankings. We’re pleased to see that, for the first time, Court of Protection is ranked as a separate discipline, this is a national ranking so represents a great achievement for the team. The complete summary of all our departments can be viewed here.

Podcasts

The Legal Lounge continues to be a very busy place, after two successful seasons we are now on season three. If you have not visited yet you can do so here: The Legal Lounge (lblaw.co.uk), we talk about many aspects of law in England and Wales.

The episodes will focus on human stories and scenarios that could affect us all. The Legal Lounge is interactive and allows for you to request subjects or scenarios to be discussed. We'll be covering family law, personal injury, clinical negligence and plenty more.

Shropshire Legal Walk

We were delighted to be involved with The Legal Walk which took place on 15 September. Fifteen members of staff from Lanyon Bowdler joined the Shropshire Legal Walk on The Wrekin, in aid of the Access to Justice Foundation.