More Than 50 New Associates Across Business, Personal And Group Services Teams

Irwin Mitchell has announced a record number of associate promotions for the fourth year running across both its legal and group services teams for 2016.

Group Chief Executive Andrew Tucker said the 51 promotions represented the impressive strength in depth at the Group across many areas of law as well as the service functions that enabled the business to run efficiently.

In all, 14 business legal services lawyers, 14 in personal injury and seven private client lawyers from teams including family and contentious probate are among those being promoted. Two further associates have been promoted in Group companies Ascent and IM Asset Management as well 12 from group services, the business support function which includes marketing, IT, finance, Risk and Compliance and HR.

“I’m delighted to confirm and congratulate another record number of associate promotions this year. Developing our people is a key priority, as they are the ones who will drive us forward and deliver success for our clients.

“Becoming an associate is a significant career step and I’m proud that the 51 promotions come from many different sectors of our business, showing what a diverse group of specialists we are building here at Irwin Mitchell.

“Although our promotions are made on merit alone, an equal gender split reflects the diversity of our group and our new associates are also evenly split across our northern and southern offices, showing the increasing strength in depth we have across the UK after a transformational year for the Group.”

The associate promotions follow a busy 12 months for Irwin Mitchell in which it merged with Thomas Eggar to give the Group a bigger presence in the South of England as well as increasing the strength of its business and private client teams. Irwin Mitchell’s Private Wealth offer for high net worth individuals was also launched in April this year, the same month that 13 Partner promotions were announced.

From the Business Legal Services division the following have been promoted: James Dixon from BLS Operations; Employment lawyer Siobhan Mulrey; Amy Keogh from Insolvency; Jon-Paul Casati, Stephen Murphy, Natasha Guthrie and Ciaran Dearden from the Litigation team; Craig Weston from the Regulatory & Criminal Investigations Group; and Real Estate lawyers Hannah Nix, Nikki Link, Andrew McGrath, Joanne Mills, Guy Whitehead and Ola Falua.

The new Personal Legal Services associates are Louisa Chadwick and Sean Attwood from the Court of Protection; Madeline Smith and Paula Walkden from the Costs team; Carla Rist from Will, Trust and Estate Disputes; Family lawyers Mark Hands, Carmel Brown, Kathryn Evans and David Lister; Kirsty Green from Motor;  Rosalie Reading, Luke Trevorrow, Marcos Eleftheriou, Richard Kayser, Ayse Ince, Rebecca Brown and Kate Major from Medical Negligence; David Bell from the Personal Injury team; Sofie Toft, Angela Batchelor, Chris Kardahji who specialist in Serious Injury; and Fiona McGhie and Stephen Cardinal from the Public Law team.

The new Group Services associates are: Dale Rowley, James Kirk and Mike Meurer from Sales and Marketing; Nicola Stanley from HR; IT specialists Amanda Doyle, Antony Croft, Martin Hirons and Nadia Jama; Elizabeth Davies and Paul Finnegan from Risk and Compliance; and Finance associates Eamon Kelly and Laura Wearing.

In the Irwin Mitchell Group subsidiary companies, Zarvin Vandrewala was promoted at Ascent and Philip Goldthorp becomes a new associate at IM Asset Management.