Friday, March 8, 2013

Hired a new partner to help grow the Law Square One

One of the law firm of Law COMMERCIAL Square signed up two new partners in the team work.

Since its launch last summer, a company based in Jesmond founding partners - Ian Gilthorpe, Alan Fletcher and Robin Winskell - has attracted five partners.

Latest arrival of South African-Born lawyer Jean-Pierre Van Zyl, who moved from Newcastle firm Short Richardson return to lead the team work.

He was joined by Liz Cotton from the Liverpool office of the national Top 30 firm Hill Dickinson.

After working with a company lawyer in London on arrival in the UK 11 years ago, Van Zyl came to Tyneside in 2005.

He said: "I am exceedingly impressed with Ian, Alan and Robin desire to strike out on their own, their clear vision to see how they are operating their company and what they want it to be.

"The thing that surprised me the most was the positive energy from colleagues, is outstanding. This is one reason I believe we can attract outstanding people working for us.

"Interesting Liz is a coup for the North East and is a testament to the quality of work and our clients attract, and the positive energy that permeates throughout.

"He is a lawyer too impressive and it is a great opportunity for Liz. My goal is to recruit three lawyers at the end of the fiscal year. '

Recent work in teams responding to the court's work for a national retail chain with more than 8,000 staff.

Van Zyl said: "The foundation of the Law Square One is the trust we have for each other - the confidence to know we can refer our clients to our colleagues with full confidence.

"We are a company that is confident, experienced attorney, a company with enough confidence in our ability and the ability of our colleagues to challenge and be challenged each other."

Among the clients of the company's North East entrepreneur Sir Peter Vardy and able Billingham-based UK. Cramlington-based Miller England and Newcastle-based Shepherd offshore clients as well as the North East businessman Nigel Mills, Mills Group founder and current chairman of the Employers 'Forum'.

Just over a year after its release, Square One is now up to almost 30 staff. The arrival of new partners including Jeremy Swift (corporate and commercial), Priestley and Barney Simon Frith (property), and Stuart Hamilton (private clients).

Aims to provide first-class service for senior managers, executives, owner-managed businesses and multi-national commercial clients with thousands of staff.

Senior partner Ian Gilthorpe said: "The development of a new working team led by Jean-Pierre Liz support is a major milestone in the growth and development.

"We continue to attract high-quality group of people and exist in a leadership team with ambition, drive and energy that are relevant to this company forward and develop our initial success."

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