Thrings, the regional law firm with an office in Bath, has been appointed by the Bar Council to a new debt recovery panel to help barristers collect outstanding fees from professional clients. Thrings is only one of two firms to be chosen to become a strategic partner for the new service. The Bar Council...
The Bath office of law firm Royds Withy King has acted as the lead adviser to shareholders of Somerset-based insurance services firm Higos in its sale to major specialist insurance group Global Risk Partners (GRP). Somerton-based Higos, which employs around 300 people in 20 offices in Somerset, Dorset, South Gloucestershire, Devon, Wiltshire and Hampshire,...
Directors from Bath and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well as focusing UK-wide attention on...
Lawyers from Royds Withy King’s commercial and private client teams in Bath have compiled this latest briefing to make directors aware of new issues which may have a bearing on their business or personal plans. Poor energy efficiency could seriously hinder property lettings From April 1, 2018, commercial property landlords will be prohibited from...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies. The...
Further growth is being forecast this year at specialist personal injury law firm Novum Law, which has an office in Bath, following five key promotions, including one at partner level. Kim Chamberlain, pictured, a highly experienced serious personal injury solicitor who joined Novum Law in 2010, joins the firm’s 10-strong senior management team as a...
Regional law firm Mogers Drewett has expanded its human resources and employment legal services offer to clients with the appointment of in-house HR consultant Lucy Cotterell. Lucy, pictured, who has 20 years’ experience in HR, has joined Mogers Drewett after an extensive and varied career within the HR team at Bath College – including...
The education team in the Bath office of law firm Stone King is warning head teachers in the city to be on their guard against online fraudsters who demand thousands of pounds in so-called ransomware attacks. It says schools are being targeted by cyber criminals who first encrypt school data then seek money to...
Time is running out for Bath firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business and...
Bath-based Care Planning Services has appointed lawyer and former Parliamentary adviser Sarah Clarke as business development manager. The firm was set up as a joint venture nearly three year ago by Stone King solicitors and Money Wise Independent Financial Advisers – both with offices in Bath – to provide joined-up legal and financial advice to help...
