People: Law firm welcomes clinical negligence manager; Animalcare COO resigns; Trio of promotions at JLL; and more

Managing partner Jonathan Wearing with new lawyer Anne Robertson and head of clinical negligence, James Thompson.

An experienced clinical negligence lawyer has joined the Leeds office of Ison Harrison.

Anne Robertson joins the firm from DAC Beachcroft where she defended clinical negligence claims. Prior to this she acted for claimants at firms in Doncaster, Huddersfield and Leeds.

Robertson has many years’ experience as a clinical negligence solicitor after qualifying in 2007. Before studying law, she worked for ten years as a nurse in Sheffield, specialising in cardiothoracic and general surgery, and anaesthetics.

In her new role at Ison Harrison, she will handle a variety of clinical negligence cases resulting from nursing, surgical, clinician or GP neglect.

She said: “I’m excited to have joined such a progressive firm with a first-rate reputation for its clinical negligence work.  I’m looking forward to working alongside the rest of the nationally recognised team to expand the firm’s expert clinical negligence offering, while assisting claimants in this specialist area of law.”

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Animalcare Group’s chief operating officer Iain Menneer has resigned with immediate effect.

Chris Cardon, Animalcare’s chief executive officer, said: “We thank Iain for all his work on the integration of Animalcare and Ecuphar. He leaves the business with our best wishes. We have the platform in place to create a leading Pan-European animal-health business.”

Menneer has been with Animalcare for 15 years, rising to chief executive in 2013. After a reverse takeover of Belgian firm Ecuphar last June, he moved to the COO role, with Cardon taking over as chief executive.

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Gail Storr, Beverley Scholefield and Tom Iles

Property consultant JLL has promoted three members of staff in its Leeds office.

Tom Iles has been promoted to the role of senior surveyor, Beverley Scholefield to surveyor and Gail Storr has been made a surveying executive.

All three work in JLL’s property and asset management team in Leeds overseeing commercial property assets on behalf of pension funds and investment and property companies. The team is currently responsible for over nearly 200 properties and 1,300 tenants across Yorkshire and the North East.

Paul Curson, head of JLL’s property and asset management team in Leeds, said: “I would like to congratulate all three for consistently going above and beyond for our clients.

“These well-deserved promotions underline JLL’s ongoing commitment to develop and retain the best people within our business.”

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Paul Connolly, Andrea Wilby, Kamlesh Parmar, Gary Gallen, Andrew Cameron, Jeff Swales, Davina Gillyon.

Law firm rradar has announced four key appointments.

Kamlesh Parmar recently joined rradar as its chief operating officer and will lead the business operations for the firm.

Paul Connolly joins rradar as legal director, and will work closely with rradar’s chief legal officer, Andrew Cameron to manage the legal and advisory teams and their operations on a day to day level.

Jeff Swales has joined rradar’s business, crime and regulatory team. Formerly Partner at Andrew Jacksons Solicitors, Swales’ practice area covers a broad range of legal issues including high value disputes and complex regulatory issues.

Davina Gillyon recently joined rradar as the firm’s marketing and communications director and will lead rradar’s strategic and tactical integrated marketing and communications initiatives across creative, digital, brand strategy, business development, client relationship management and rradar’s internal communications program.

The hires follow the appointment of Andrea Wilby in November last year, leading rradar’s people strategy and initiatives across talent management and performance, recruitment, learning, development, compensation, benefits, and HR operations including systems and processes.

rradar’s chief executive Gary Gallen said: “I am very excited that this pool of exceptional talent has chosen to join the rradar team. Attracting industry experts of this stature to rradar is a testament to the success we have seen across our business and the exciting opportunities that lie ahead. Our business is moving forward at a rapid pace, constantly evolving and growing and pushing at traditional boundaries.  We are on an accelerated growth plan and investing in our business and leadership is a high priority.”

 

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