New Partners at Irwin Mitchell
26/04/2007
Thank you very much for the brilliant service, professionalism and caring attitude whilst handling my recent claim.
Vicki, Sheffield
7 new Partners as Irwin Mitchell continues to Grow
Irwin
Mitchell 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.
With a business model
aligned to the changing legal marketplace, Irwin Mitchell is also keen
to promote non-lawyers to Partner level positions with their Director
and Associate Director roles. This year, as again it did in 2006, the
firm is promoting 4 non-lawyers to the Partner equivalent level of
Associate Director, making the total number of Directors and Associate
Directors at the firm, 35.
The new appointments represent the
diversity of the firm, ranging from those 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.
Included in the seven new Partners in May will be:
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.
Katherine Allen a new Partner in
Irwin Mitchell's Birmingham office, has been acting on behalf of
clients who received stolen body parts in the recent scandal in which
human tissue and bone were allegedly stolen and sold on for profit in
the US. Katherine qualified in 1996 and has always specialised in
personal injury, she currently heads a team representing clients
suffering illness or involved in accidents abroad.
Raminder
Bhabra is a member of the Irwin Mitchell Insurance Services team
dealing with motor claims and employer liability claims, specialising
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.
Fran
Mayes has also been with the firm since trainee level. She becomes a
Partner of the firm in their Newcastle office; she specialises in
Catastrophic Injury claims of maximum severity including a recent
successful claim for £3m on behalf of a 50 year old woman who suffered
brain damage from negligent treatment whilst in a Northumbrian hospital.
Among
the 4 non-lawyers attaining Partner status, as an Associate Director,
is Keith Barrett who works within Irwin Mitchell's London Personal
Injury team. Keith has been acting Pro Bono on behalf of several of the
victims of the July 2005 London bombings, working to get those victims
of the terrorist attacks, and bereaved families, compensation under the
criminal injuries compensation scheme.
Keith is also the chairman
of the London branch of ILEX (The Institute of Legal Executives) the
professional body which represents Legal Executives and trainee Legal
Executives and enhances their role and standing in the legal profession.
Other
promotions to Assistant Director level include Stuart Robinson who
leads the firm's Management Accounts team. Alison Matthews the firm's
Compliance Officer and a founding member of the Law Society's highly
respected Money Laundering Taskforce and Paul Haycock, part of the
Regulatory and Investigations Group in Sheffield 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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