Nockolds Solicitors is delighted to announce another record year in this year’s Legal 500 rankings, receiving rankings in seven practice areas and personal recommendations for 15 lawyers.
For the first time, Nockolds has received the ‘Top Tier Firm’ accreditation after being recommended in Tier 1 for Clinical Negligence: Claimant.
Yasmin Ameer, Senior Associate in our Personal Injury and Medical Negligence Team has once again been listed as a ‘Leading Individual’ in this year’s publication.
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Nockolds has been recommended in the following practice areas:
- Clinical Negligence: Claimant
- Commercial Property
- Contentious Trusts and Probate
- Employment
- Family
- Personal Injury: Claimant
- Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate
A record number of leading lawyers at Nockolds have been recommended in this year’s publication; a few highlights below:
- ‘Clients single out Gary Smith, who is ‘accessible, professional, listens, and has excellent knowledge and a great sense of humour’.’
- ‘Practice head Darren Hayward is also recommended.’
- ‘… practice lead Jennie Jones also champions alternative dispute resolution in regulated healthcare sectors, with one example being the firm’s Optical Consumer Complaints Service.’
- ‘In a recent highlight, the ‘supremely able and vastly experienced’ Yasmin Ameer represented an 11-year-old claimant in their £20m claim for a brain injury which was due to a nine-hour delay in their delivery as a baby.’
- ‘Lynn Cowley heads the practice, which includes Peter Dodd and Karen Pritchard; collectively they are praised for their ‘determination, proactivity and ability to achieve the best possible results for clients in a proportionate and cost-effective way’.’
- ‘The ‘pragmatic and knowledgeable’ [Karen] Pritchard handles divorce proceedings, for medium-to-high-net-worth clients, private children matters, pre-and-post-marital agreements and cohabitation matters, and Court of Protection work.’
- ‘Practice head Peter King is particularly noted for his contentious trust and probate expertise.’
- ‘Daniel Winter is ‘an extremely good, energetic lawyer’ with more than 13 years’ experience acting for high-net-worth individuals on a range of trusts and probate disputes.’
- ‘Michael Talbot heads the practice and focuses on high-value residential development mandates. Other key figures include Michael Shapiro, Andrew Fernandes, Elena Nicolaou, whose expertise covers regeneration and development projects, and Lucy Riley, who handles lease enfranchisement matters on behalf of landlords and tenants.’
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