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• Ian Hopkins has been appointed as the new chief executive of leading Buckinghamshire law firm B P Collins LLP. An experienced lawyer and businessman with a string of awards under his belt, he has already set the goal of increasing annual turnover to £10 million through a strong growth agenda. Having qualified as a solicitor in 1987, Hopkins spent his early career with a law firm in Wales, and latterley five years as chief executive of Debenhams Ottaway in St Albans. Hopkins' appointment will see him working alongside Gina Connell, the firm’s new head of business development and marketing.
• David Miles, a senior solicitor based at Blake Morgan’s offices in Oxford, has been officially named as one of 17 new mediators to be formally appointed to CEDR – the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. The CEDR mediator panel is acknowledged to contain many of the most experienced mediators in the UK and internationally. It handles up to 10,000 commercial and consumer disputes a year, with the aim of resolving them without resorting to court action. New members have to undergo a rigorous selection process before they are appointed.
• Clinical negligence specialist Stephanie Code has joined Penningtons Manches LLP as an associate director in the firm’s new Guildford office. Prior to this, Code was a partner at top-ranking City firms including Kingsley Napley LLP and Charles Russell Speechleys. With over 20 years’ experience, her varied practice includes maximum severity claims, particularly birth injury and those with complex or novel issues. Although based in Guildford, she will also work out of the firm’s London office and often sees clients nationwide. Code has been a member of the Law Society and AvMA specialist panels for many years. She is also
an APIL fellow, having been co-ordinator and secretary of its clinical negligence special interest group from 2004-2011. She has recently been elected to the executive of the Society of Claimant Injury Lawyers (SCIL).
• Aylesbury solicitor’s firm, Parrott & Coales LLP, has appointed Abigail Farley-Howson as head of department of its private client division. Farley-Howson has 10 years' experience in private client law and is highly skilled
in business development. As a senior associate and department head, she will be responsible for the direction and development of the private client division and its team including the possible expansion into new areas of private client work. She qualified as a solicitor in September 2005 and a decade on has in-depth experience across a broad range of private client services including wills, trusts, probate and Court of Protection practice. Plus, having been raised in a family run business, she has a good understanding of the requirements of growing and planning an exit from a company.
• Insurance broker and risk adviser JLT Specialty has continued to grow its Reading office with the appointment of Paul Goodman as new business development director. Goodman has over 20 years’ sales experience
in the insurance sector and has previously held positions at Alexander Forbes, Marsh, Oval Insurance Group and Bluefin Insurance Services. Goodman’s role will be to support the Reading office’s growth plans throughout the next 12 months and beyond. Peter Cant, head of JLT Specialty’s Reading risk practice, said: “Paul’s experience will be an asset to continue building our client base in Reading and the South East. He has incredible experience and knowledge to help us expand the business and we’re looking forward to having him as part of the team.”
• Spratt Endicott Solicitors is once again celebrating the growth of one of its key departments.. Kayleigh Atkins has completed her training with the firm and, as a newly-qualified solicitor, joins the thriving commercial property department. She is based at the firm's Bicester office. In her role, Atkins will advise clients with businesses of all sizes in relation to the sale and purchase of freehold and leasehold commercial property, the purchase of residential buy-to- let property, business sales and acquisitions, the sale and purchase of land for development and landlord and tenant matters. Her promotion follows a period of growth for the commercial property department which saw the appointment of associate Michael Campbell in January and solicitor Emma Buck in April, both of whom work in the Banbury office. Atkins joined the Bicester office as a part-time paralegal four years ago, after graduating with a first- class honours degree in law from Oxford Brookes University in 2010. In June 2013, she achieved a distinction in the legal practice course before starting her two-year training contract with Alfred Truman, who merged with Spratt Endicott last year.
www.businessmag.co.uk THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – SEPTEMBER 2015
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