7 New Partners as Irwin Mitchell Continues to Grow
07/06/2007
Irwin Mitchell Continues to Grow
Thank you so much for handling my case so well. You came to know us at a great time of sadness and you were so kind. We will always remember you as very professional but also very warm hearted.
Sylvia, Tamworth
Sheffield based law firm
Irwin Mitchell (Incorporating Alexander Harris) has announced that it
will be promoting 7 people to Partner status from May 1st 2007. This
matches the record number of new Partners promoted in 2006.
Following
the firm's recent rapid expansion, including mergers with leading
Clinical Negligence firm Alexander Harris and Scottish law firm Golds
in the last 12 months, it will now have 105 Partners from May 1st.
Established
in 1912 in Sheffield, the firm now employs over 1000 people in the city
and its Riverside offices are the powerhouse for the firm which has
offices across the UK and also in Spain.
The new appointments
represent the diversity of the firm, ranging from lawyers specialising
in compensation claims and legal challenges for individuals funded
through legal aid, to business law specialists advising management
teams on corporate law, offering clients a wide range of legal advice
including one of the largest dispute resolution teams in the country.
One
of the new Partners of the firm is Sheffield based Yogi Amin, the
lawyer who successfully fought for the right of Ann Marie Rogers to
receive the breast cancer drug Herceptin. Yogi specialises in Public
Law, conducting judicial review work against a range of public bodies
mainly in the fields of health, education and social care. He was
recently included in the Lawyer magazine's Hot 100 for his successes in
the High Court.
Yogi is currently representing an 83 year old
Alzheimers sufferer, known only as YL for legal reasons, in a landmark
case in the House of Lords. Yogi is arguing that the Human Rights Act
should apply for YL as she is threatened with eviction from her private
care home. Currently the Human Rights Act does not cover residents of
private care homes, even though YL was placed in the home, and is paid
for, by her public authority
Other new Sheffield-based Partners
include Raminder Bhabra a member of the Irwin Mitchell Insurance
Services team. Raminder deals with motor claims in Irwin Mitchell's
extremely successful Insurance practice, handling a large quantity of
claims for insurance companies seeking the best and most efficient
legal services for their customers. Raminder specialises in orthopaedic
claims following road traffic accidents.
Laurence Gavin joined
Irwin Mitchell in 2002 from Norton Rose, he specialises in Company and
Commercial work in the public, charity and education sectors, from the
firm's Sheffield office.
Gillian Coverley provides the Will
Writing, Probate, Estate Administration and Tax Planning services the
firm offers to its own clients and to large organisations such as Banks
and Insurers whose customers benefit from the legal services supplied
by Irwin Mitchell.
Steven Richardson has made the journey from
Trainee to Partner with Irwin Mitchell. Steven qualified in 1993 in the
firm's Sheffield office; he deals with a wide range of commercial
property deals ranging from small transactions for individuals to
multi-million pound developments for PLC clients.
The firm also
promoted 4 members of staff to Assistant Director level, the equivalent
of Partner level for non-lawyers within a law firm. In Sheffield these
include Stuart Robinson who leads the firm's Management Accounts team
in Sheffield and Paul Haycock, part of the Regulatory and
Investigations Group in the city who specialises in representing
individuals and companies investigated and prosecuted for offences
before the criminal courts.
Irwin Mitchell's commitment to
diversity in terms of promotion and reward within the firm was recently
recognised when the firm was named Law Firm Employer of the Year in the
2006 Paralegal Awards. The Award was presented for Irwin Mitchell's
commitment to providing quality work, support, recognition and training
to their paralegal staff which the judging panel said was "second to
none".
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