Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has created a new people development role and made several new appointments following a year of record growth. Turnover at the firm, which also has offices in Wells, Sherborne and Frome, increased by 10% last year. This has allowed it to invest further in its people,...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Tom Webb, corporate commercial partner at law firm Mogers Drewett, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Air. I loved the documentary film on Michael Jordan, The Last Dance, so was...
A lack of interest among the West of England’s politicians in its tech sector, despite its strength, is holding it back compared to other regions, according to a major new report. At the same time, the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda is steering funding towards parts of the country with strong and supportive political leadership. As...
A team from Bath-based law firm Stone King has raised more than £6,000 for charity by cycling from its headquarters in the city to London. The nine riders, pictured, covered the 155 miles from the firm’s office on Upper Borough Walls to its London office in the Barbican over two days to raise the...
Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King is holding a series of free webinars to help organisations wanting to collaborate and create meaningful impact in the community. Organised by the firm’s business & social enterprise sector, the Collaboration Series started last month with webinars on Collaborative Community Partnerships and Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). The series then returns in...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Elsie Lyford, associate corporate solicitor at Goughs Solicitors, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice. Not as good as the TV version with Colin...
Bath businesses can find out the best routes through the employee relations minefield at a masterclass being staged by Goughs Solicitors and Simple Recruitment. They have teamed up with Radio Bath for the half-day event on 4 July at Doubletree by Hilton on Walcot St. The masterclass is aimed at businesses and owner-managers who...
The strength of the South West’s FinTech ecosystem is to be analysed for the first time as part of a new project involving businesses, public sector organisations and higher education establishments. The work will be led and delivered by Whitecap Consulting, the regional strategy consultancy with a base in Bristol. Whitecap has conducted similar...
Taste of the West, the UK’s largest independent regional food group, has launched a partnership with regional accountancy group Bishop Fleming and law firm Trowers & Hamlins to help raise the profile of the thriving South West food and drink sector. The firms will act as Taste of the West’s title sponsors for the...
Regional law firm Goughs has appointed Dan Shaw as a partner in its nationally accredited housebuilding, land and development team in a move that continues its expansion. Dan, pictured, has rejoined the firm, which has seven offices across Wiltshire, including in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Melksham and Corsham, having been an associate there for nearly three...
