LAW FIRM EXPANSION

Chartered legal executive Natalie Symons is the latest recruit to The Family Law Company’s team in Cornwall.

Symons is an experienced family lawyer who has pursued a career in law since

The Port of London’s deputy harbour master is about to become Falmouth’s ‘harbour master designate’, shadowing the current HM Duncan Paul until his retirement early next year.

Miles Featherstone will be bringing his wideranging experience and qualifications over a decade on the management of 95 miles of the tidal Thames.

He will join Falmouth Harbour on June 5 and hit the ground running in his new role, with a busy season of events which will draw many thousands of visitors to the harbour.

Highlights include the Shanty Festival from June 16 – 18, the national Armed Forces Day on June 24, a rare return for the world’s Tall Ships Festival and Race from August 15-19 and the Oyster Festival from October 12-15.

Commercially, the harbour will welcome almost 50 cruise ship visits in 2023 and Featherstone will start the preparations for the arrival of our new £1.6 million pilot boat in May 2024.

Falmouth Harbour CEO, Miles Carden, said: “We are excited to be building our team during such a monumental season leaving college. She started out as a legal secretary prior to studying to become a lawyer with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx).

She has worked for several local firms, including a 15-year stint at Walters and Barbary Solicitors.

The Family Law Company, which has longestablished offices in Exeter and Plymouth, started providing legal services in Cornwall in 2021 with the appointment of Cornish director, Lucy Theobald. The Truro office opened last November.

Theobold said: “I have known Natalie for a number of years and I know that she will be a great addition The Family Law Company and our Truro office.”