Turnover at family law firm passes £3m barrier
A family law firm has seen turnover up by almost 50 per cent during a 12-month period in which its staff numbers increased by more than a quarter.
Hall Brown Family Law’s turnover over the last 12 months topped £3.2 million – an increase of more than £1 million on the previous year’s figure.
As a result, Hall Brown Family Law has promoted Claire Reid to partner.
The firm has also established bursaries to enable students from underprivileged backgrounds to receive a university education and played a key role in a campaign to save a pioneering court system designed to help prevent the children of parents addicted to drugs or alcohol from being taken into care.
Founder James Brown said: “We feel that we have made significant strides over the last year, both in and out of the office.
“By recruiting more top-quality lawyers in Manchester and London, we have reinforced our ability to deliver the very high standard of service which we set when we launched and which we consider to be our hallmark.”
He added: “Claire is instrumental in that process, not only winning the plaudits of clients but helping her more junior colleagues realise their full potential.
“That we have been able to do that at the same time as playing our part in keeping families together and supporting students obtain degree-level education is equally rewarding and meets one of our founding objectives of giving something back to the wider community.”
Hall Brown now employs 32 staff – up from 23 last April – 22 of whom are fee earners.
They include Claire Reid – whose promotion to partner comes two years after she joined as senior associate from a larger rival firm – and Izzy Walsh, who became head of Hall Brown’s new, larger London office at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in February.
