Five family lawyers join JMW

LAW firm JMW’s family team is set to grow with the appointment of five lawyers.

Cara Nuttall, Katie Lowe and Francesca Norris join from Slater and Gordon in Manchester while Jenny Arnold has been recruited from Ward Hadaway.

At the end of October, the department will also be strengthened with a new head of family, who is yet to be announced.

Existing heads of the family department Catherine Jones and Beth Wilkins are leaving after five years with the firm, with Wilkins heading over to Hall Brown as partner.

The appointments follow the founding of Hall Brown by two of JMW’s former partners who were later joined by three solicitors and an associate from their previous team.

Both Nuttal, who joins as a partner, and Lowe, who becomes a senior associate, had worked together at Pannone before it became part of Slater and Gordon.

Nuttal is known nationally for specialising in children matters including child abduction, alternative families, extended family disputes and fertility law. She frequently undertakes both domestic and international abduction and relocation cases and also helps clients with surrogacy arrangements.

Lowe was a lawyer at Pannone (now Slater and Gordon) for over 10 years and undertakes a vast amount of complex financial remedy work including complex business structures, trusts and international assets as well as being experienced across pre-nuptial agreements, private children work and financial applications on behalf of children.

Arnold, who comes on board as an associate, advises in all areas of family law including civil partnership dissolution, cohabitation agreements, separation agreements and financial settles and her clients include high net-worth professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs.

Norris also joins as a solicitor, having completed her training contract at Slater and Gordon.

Joy Kingsley of JMW said: “We are extremely pleased with the quality of the lawyers we have been able to recruit, following the departure of some team members. We received many applications to join our team from lawyers at all levels of experience including Partners so we have been able to choose lawyers of the highest calibre. In addition, we are looking forward to the arrival of our new head of family at the end of October.

“We are also delighted but not surprised that new and existing family clients have continued to support us because of the reputation of JMW which has enabled us to take on so many lawyers at this time.”

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