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...
Bristol’s Guildhall Chambers has received record results in the latest edition of Chambers UK Bar Guide – the Bar’s ‘bible’ and a much-used reference tool – with 84 rankings in 10 different practice areas. As one of the highest-performing UK sets, Guildhall achieved 20th position in the top 50...
National law firm Irwin Mitchell has appointed an experienced partner to its Bristol office’s serious injury team as part of its expansion strategy. James Davies, pictured, joins from Thompsons where he was national coordinator for serious injuries. He acts for children and adults with serious injuries, specialising in claims...
Businesses operating overseas, and particularly new entrants to international markets, need to protect themselves against bribery and corruption, a top West forensic accountant will warn at an exporting event next week. David Alexander, partner at Bristol-based business advisers Smith & Williamson, will say that even if a firm is...
West law firm Follett Stock, which until recently had an office in Bristol, has been closed down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following the appointment of liquidators earlier this week. The SRA said it made the move “in order to protect the interests of clients (or former or...
