Members

Welcome to our new feature page in the Bulletin, for updates on the personal and professional activities of all of our individual members. If you have recently qualified, been promoted, got married, completed an unusual lock down challenge, or anything else you think other members would be interested in, please tell us all about it. It is more likely to be printed if you can include a photograph that we can publish.

Sarah Franklin Solicitors Welcome New Recruits...

Ferdus Hussain

Graduate CLEX Member

Ferdus is a Graduate CLEX Member, having chosen the non-traditional route to qualifying as a lawyer. She has worked within family law legal firms for a little over 3 years and will be qualifying in March 2022 as a Chartered Legal Executive. She has recently joined the expanding team at Sarah Franklin Solicitors, based at the Kettering office.

She is enthusiastic in her approach in helping and assisting families when they are going through changes, difficult times or just need advice in relation family life and the laws that surround it. Ferdus is one of six siblings and a twin, so her house can be pretty noisy ad her life outside of work very busy!

Chloe Shipley

Family Solicitor

Chloe is an experienced family Solicitor, having worked in family law for 16 years, and has recently moved to join the expanding practice of Sarah Franklin Solicitors in Kettering. Chloe is also a mother of 5 (4 children and 1 dog – Luna the cockapoo). Chloe is passionate about justice for families and always strives for the ‘right’ result. Chloe can’t wait for international travel to reopen properly so she can get back to the ski slopes, which is where she feels she can wind down with her family.

It has been an eventful year for Max Engel not least because of the uncertainty we have all faced in the pandemic. At Max Engel we pride ourselves putting the staff first and want to acknowledge and celebrate our wonderful employees who bring the best of themselves to the firm and our clients’ alike.

Having missed so many social opportunities during the year we were finally able to get together on what should have been ‘Freedom Day’ to mark many of the missed celebrations. It was a lovely afternoon; despite the original plan to celebrate the end of lockdown we focussed more on celebrating all the milestones and events in our lives and work which we had been unable to celebrate during the lockdowns or in between.

Among other things we celebrated a birth, a 21st birthday, a new pregnancy and some amazing and exceptional contributions throughout the pandemic from some of our team members who went well above and beyond the call of duty to help keep us and our clients moving (literally and figuratively!) throughout the pandemic, especially in the early days when so much was uncertain and unknown, and despite facing so much upheaval at home with many of us also responsible for home schooling. We also celebrated the fact that we have made it through relatively unscathed (with hindsight at least!) despite some very stressful moments and worrying times. That we all came together as a team, accepting the difficult situation without animosity or conflict and offering our best is a very positive demonstration of the strength of our team

We are happy to announce that we are growing as a firm building on the success of the last year or two, with Ana-Maria Badeanu joining us as a solicitor in the Corporate and Commercial Property team and another new solicitor will shortly be joining us in the Litigation team. We are currently in the search for another ambitious lawyer to join us in our growing Commercial Property Team, and if anyone knows of someone who might be interested further details can be found on our website!