Regional law firm Goughs Solicitors has strengthened its corporate team with the appointment of senior associate Jonathan Carter-Lewis. Jonathan, pictured, brings knowledge and expertise to his new role having worked in London and Hong Kong and with CMS, Nabarro and TransAsia Lawyers. The appointment follows an incredibly successful few years for Goughs, which has seven...
A technical consultancy for the defence sector has become the latest in a growing list of businesses to become owned by its staff. Bosses at Chippenham-based Engage Technical Solutions decided to adopt the Employee-Owned Trust (EOT) model as the best way to secure its future while preserving its independence and culture. More than 750...
Bath law firm Mogers Drewett Solicitors is staging a competition for primary school-aged children to design eye-catching bunting to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The winning schools will each be awarded £500, with the winning children receiving a £50 voucher of their choice. The winning entries will also be turned into bunting to for...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has been reappointed for another two years to the legal panel of the UK’s national asbestos-related cancer charity. Mesothelioma UK’s legal panel, which Royds Withy King has been a member since its inception in 2013, has also extended its number of specialist solicitors to 12 firms in England,...
Stone King, the national law firm with its headquarters in Bath, has appointed top-ranked charity lawyer Rosamund McCarthy Etherington as an equity partner. Rosamund, pictured, has joined Stone King, which is a national leader in charity law, after more than 30 years at London law firm Bates Wells. Her arrival strengthens Stone King’s team of more than 50 charity...
Lawyers from Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King have helped a fast-growing pub group to expand its portfolio with the acquisition of six more outlets. Five of the pubs taken over by Portobello Starboard are on the South Coast, with the sixth in Essex. The move, which takes the ambitious pub group’s estate to...
A financial planner with Bath law firm Mogers Drewett has become one of just 35 professionals in the UK to gain a specialist accreditation from family law professional body Resolution for divorce work. Daniel Gornall, pictured, is already a Chartered Financial Planner, Fellow of the Personal Finance Society and an Associate Member of Resolution. ...
Bath-headquartered national law firm Stone King has appointed solicitor Sophie Levitt-Hughes to further strengthen its immigration services. Sophie, pictured, will be responsible for supporting clients with all immigrations issues from sponsorship to individual immigration matters across the firm’s key sectors of education, charity and social enterprise, business and private client. Stone King partner Julie Moktadir,...
Lawyers from Bath-headquartered national law firm Stone King’s immigration team are giving pro bono legal advice to a project helping Ukraine nationals following Russia’s invasion of their country. The Ukraine Advice Project UK, which was set up by a group of immigration lawyers, has been inundated with inquiries since it opened, with Stone King’s...
More than £10,000 has been donated by Bath-headquartered national law firm Stone King to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal in aid of Ukraine. The donation from the firm’s charitable arm, the Stone King Foundation, was made as millions of people are being displaced following the brutal Russian invasion of the country. Stone King,...
