Legal 500 2017: The 40 additions to the region’s leading individuals

Wright Hassall's managing partner Sarah Perry
Wright Hassall's managing partner Sarah Perry

The 2017 Legal 500 report has added 40 people to its list of leading individuals, which highlights the strongest performing lawyers in the West Midlands.

However the gender divide in the senior ranks of the profession continues, with only eight women among the 40 additions.

Three firms – Wright Hassall, Eversheds Sutherland and Pinsent Masons – each had four new names on the list.
Agriculture
Paul Rice, Wright Hassall

Banking and finance
David Doogan, Pinsent Masons

Banking litigation
Chris Busby, Eversheds Sutherland
Greg Standing, Gowling WLG

Commercial litigation: Birmingham
Andrew Leach, DWF

Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the West Midlands
Elizabeth Beatty, Harrison Clark Rickerbys
Guy Birkett, FBC Manby Bowdler
Sarah Perry, Wright Hassall

Commercial property: Birmingham
Iftkhar Ahmed, Eversheds Sutherland
Jason Jackson, Shoosmiths
Tom Johnson, Pinsent Masons
Monique Sutherland, DLA Piper

Commercial property: Elsewhere in the West Midlands
Nick East, Lodders Solicitors
Barry Sankey, Wright Hassall
David Slade, Wright Hassall

Contentious trusts and probates
Craig Ridge, FBC Manby Bowdler
Robert Weston, MFG Solicitors

Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in the West Midlands
Paul Bennett, George Green
Rod Thomas, Harrison Clark Rickerbys

Corporate tax
Becky Rees, Parisi Tax

Crime: general
Steven Jonas, Jonas Ray Bloom

Education
Nick MacKenzie, Browne Jacobson

Environment
Lee McBride, Gowling WLG

Family: Elsewhere in the West Midlands
Kevin Harris-James, Harrison Clark Rickerbys
Linda Jones, Brethertons

Health and safety
Sean Elson, Pinsent Masons
Hayley Saunders, Shoosmiths

Insolvency and corporate recovery
Daniel French, Gateley
Stephen George, Irwin Mitchell
Devinder Singh, Squire Patton Boggs
Mark Wilson, Gateley

Intellectual property
Richard Taylor, DLA Piper

Pensions
Emma King, Eversheds Sutherland

Personal injury: claimant
Clive Garner, Irwin Mitchell
Neil Lorimer, Lanyon Bowdler

Planning
Niall Blackie, FBC Manby Bowdler
Rebecca Warren, Pinsent Masons

Project finance and PFI
James Larmour, Freeths

Property litigation
Lisa Barge, Eversheds Sutherland

Sport
Tim Bailey, Beswicks Legal

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