National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has a large office in Bristol office, has appointed two new partners – personal injury and clinical negligence lawyer Chris Thorne and property specialist Sarah Hind. Chris, pictured below, specialises in acting for victims of clinical negligence and personal injuries and is a...
National book retailer Waterstones has appointed Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon as sole real estate adviser to its store portfolio across the UK. Burges Salmon’s real estate team will provide Waterstones with property management legal work generated by its stores until 2016. This will include contentious and non-contentious real...
The employment team at TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, is expanding with the arrival of partner Esther Smith. Esther, , who joins from Southampton firm Thomas Eggar, is the third partner hire for the growing national team in a month. Partner and head of TLT's employment, pensions &...
Ben Tarrant, a real estate partner at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT, has been elected president of Bristol Law Society at its annual general meeting. Ben has been on the society’s council and executive for the past three years and was a key part of the team which implemented...
Expanding West property law firm Hoffman Male is taking on more staff as it starts to benefit from the housing market recovery. The firm is seeking two conveyancers – one each for its offices in Swindon and Bristol – to help with a growing caseload linked to the higher...
Morgan Cole, the regional law firm with a Bristol office, is in talks over a possible three-way merger with two other firms to create a new top 40 UK firm with revenues of nearly £100m. The tie-up with Blake Lapthorn and Boyes Turner would result in a firm with...
Regional law firm Thrings has strengthened its succession, estates and tax planning offering with the appointment of Victoria Smyth as partner. Victoria, pictured, a specialist private client solicitor, providing a comprehensive wealth management, wills, trusts and tax service for businesses and individual clients, has joined from Bristol-based national firm...
Lawyers based in the Bristol office of national firm Bond Dickinson have advised on the Gulf state of Oman’s first renewable energy project. Senior associate Ed Rimmell worked with the Authority for Electricity Regulation in Oman on the procurement of the 303-kilowatt solar PV project, which will provide green...
Law firm DWF, which has an office in Bristol, has posted a 57.5% increase in half-year revenues to £93.6m. Nearly 90% of the increase came from its merger with Fishburns and its acquisition of Cobbetts. The deals, which both took place in February, created a top-25 firm with 984...
Half-year revenues at Bristol-headquartered international law firm Osborne Clarke have risen by 12% to nearly £60m, it reported today. The firm, which also has UK offices in London and the Thames Valley as well as bases around the world, said it was now on track to financial targets set...
Up to 50 jobs could be axed at Bristol law firm Lyons Davidson as major changes to the civil litigation system take effect. Managing partner Mark Savill said in a statement: “The cost pressures that come from the fee and rule changes require us to operate our core personal...
Further growth at law firm DAC Beachcroft is on the cards following the agreement of a four-year £40m finance package with the Bristol-based teams at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking and HSBC Commercial Bank. DAC Beachcroft last week snapped up the entire volume claims and catastrophic insurance teams of smaller...
In one of the biggest legal sector moves of its kind for years in Bristol, Morgan Cole is transferring its entire volume claims and catastrophic insurance teams to larger rival DAC Beachcroft’s Bristol office. DAC Beachcroft said the team would transfer by Tupe, although it did not specify which...
