Bevan Brittan has appointed a new senior partner, with head of employment, pensions and immigration Jodie Sinclair set to take up the role on 1 May. A 21-year veteran of the firm, Sinclair is Bevan Brittan’s third female senior partner in a row. She had previously joined the board in 2019, and replaces Joanne Easterbrook, […]
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Bevan Brittan has ended the 2019/20 financial year with double-digit increases in revenue and net profit. The firm recorded turnover of £51.4m, up 11.7 per cent on the previous year’s £46m. Meanwhile, net profit rose 13.8 per cent, from £9.97m to £11.35m. It is the seventh straight year of growth for the firm. Bevan Brittan […]
Blake Morgan has taken the “strategic commercial decision,” to exit the world of clinical negligence and personal injury (PI) and has disposed of its practice to Enable Law, Foot Anstey’s medical negligence business. In recent years Blake Morgan’s PI & clinical negligence practice had dwindled to three partners, all based in Southampton. Former head of […]
Clarke Willmott has posted revenue of £51.7m for the 2019/20 financial year. The figure is an increase of £2.3m, or 4.6 per cent, on 2018/19. Profit stood at £11m, down from £11.4 million and average profit per equity partner was £201,000, down from £234,000. The firm’s CEO, Stephen Rosser, said: “I am pleased with our […]
Conveyancing firms O’Neill Patient and Cavendish Legal Group are to merge, creating a firm that will challenge for the UK top 70. Stockport-headquartered O’Neill Patient is the larger of the two parties, posting revenue of £31m in the year ending 31 December 2018. Its main area of practice is conveyancing but it also handles commercial […]
JMW has become the first UK top 100 firm to release its financial results for 2019/20. The Manchester-headquartered firm’s revenue has increased by 25 per cent from £38.1m to £47.6m. The head office billed £42.5m, an 11.5 per cent increase on 2018/19, while the new London office, which opened in May 2019, brought in £5.1m […]
McMillan Williams, also known as MW Solicitors, has changed hands in a pre-pack administration deal with another consumer law firm. The Croydon-headquartered firm, also known as MW Solicitors, was founded in 1983 and was co-incorporated in 2013. It ranked 98th in The Lawyer UK200 in 2019, with revenue of £29.5m. However, it had not enjoyed […]
Over the years many a regional firm has slung its knapsack on its back and taken the road to London to pursue the Dick Whittington dream. The latest to gird its loins, scoop up its proverbial cat and launch in the City is Birketts, once a pretty nondescript Ipswich firm but now – after a […]
East Anglian firm Birketts is to take its first steps into the London market via a merger with an insurance boutique. EC3 Legal has been in business for eight years and is led by David Coupe, a former partner at both Clyde & Co and Ince & Co. It has around 18 lawyers, including five […]