Flint Bishop has acquired Walker Morris’s 34-strong volume banking and finance recoveries division to launch in Leeds. As part of the transfer, director Justin Coley will continue in the role of head of recoveries, while Rebecca Calland and Ellen McLean have been promoted to the position of partner. Other key figures joining from Walker Morris […]
This week, a Yorkshire firm is investing to meet its staff’s new demands after doubling revenue in three years, while Walker Morris employees try a new hobby.
Ward Hadaway is set to transform both its Newcastle offices into open-plan spaces to enhance hybrid working and maximise occupancy. The firm has been operating out of both Sandgate House and Keel Row House by the River Tyne for years, with teams split across the two buildings. Keel Row House is the more modern of […]
In recent years, Leeds has become a hotbed for new players in the legal arena. And so the burning question old-timers have been asking is: what are their ambitions and how’s that going to affect us? Well, Gowling WLG appears content with its real estate team from Womble Bond Dickinson and has no major expansion […]
South West: Growth at Exeter-headquartered firm Michelmores has hit a 10-year high following a period of inward investment. Beyond the Bubble, in association with LexisNexis: Revenue at the firm climbed 14 per cent from £42.8m to £48.8m, just shy of the psychologically important £50m revenue barrier, which the firm is likely to hit next year. […]
Leeds: Mills & Reeve is soon to double its footprint in Leeds with the relocation of its office. Beyond the Bubble, in association with LexisNexis: While the firm is staying put at 1 City Square, it is vacating its current premises on the fourth floor and has agreed to take a 10,200 sq ft office […]
The head of Clifford Chance’s office in Newcastle has left the firm after six years in charge. Lucy Nixon left the firm last week. She joined in 2018 when Clifford Chance acquired Carillion Advice Services, the paralegal and managed legal services arm of the contractor. Nixon joined Carillion in October 2007 as an operations manager, […]
Yorkshire firm Switalskis has rolled out its first formal bonus scheme, as the firm edges closer to the £30m revenue mark. The new scheme came into effect in April 2024, replacing the previous approach whereby bonuses were issued on an ad hoc basis. The new scheme is split into two tiers. The first tier is […]
Clarion is making significant strides in the international legal market – despite having only one office and belonging to no formal network.
Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway wants to be a £100m firm in the next decade, meaning it needs to add 10 per cent to its revenue every year. Here’s how it intends to do it.
Leeds: Leeds’ legal industry has been going through a resurgence. The city, once known for being the largest legal hub outside of London a couple decades ago, had fallen behind the bustling centres of Manchester and Bristol in the years that followed. But with seven UK100 firms having opened in Leeds since the Covid-19 pandemic […]
North West: As revealed in The Lawyer on Tuesday, Brabners has kicked off a new three-year strategy. The last one certainly paid dividends, and newly-reelected managing partner Nik White was in ebullient spirits when he talked to Beyond the Bubble earlier this week. “It’s the power of 24,” he says cryptically, before explaining that “it […]