Appointments: Your Legal Friend; UHY Hacker Young & more
CLINICAL negligence and serious injury lawyer Laura Morgan has left Slater & Gordon in Manchester to join Wirral-based Your Legal Friend in a senior role.
Morgan, who was previously at Pannone and then Russell Jones and Walker, which was then acquired by S&G, joins the Birkenhead -based firm as director of medical negligence.
She has acted in a wide range of cases over her 17 years of practice and has particular expertise in acting for children who have suffered brain injury due to mismanaged birth or surgical errors, and in managing claims that have resulted in fatalities.
Colin Gibson, chief operating officer at Your Legal Friend, said: “Laura’s appointment highlights the calibre of people we are attracting to the business and is testimony to our reputation as a leading claimant firm.”
Morgan added: “Your Legal Friend is already building a strong profile for its medical negligence work so this is an exciting opportunity to lead and expand our specialist, dedicated team in a very challenging but highly rewarding legal sector.”
Your Legal Friend and sister company Camps Solicitors are the brands operated by 2020 Legal.
::
ACCOUNTANTS UHY Hacker Young has made two further hires in its Manchester office.
The newcomers are Weronika Nycz and Hashym Saleem, who join from North West firms Bennett Verby and Cowgill Holloway.
Weronika Nycz is ACCA qualified and is an accounts senior, while Saleem will work in the audit team and is in late stages of taking his ACCA exams.
Mike Wasinski, managing partner at UHY Hacker Young said: “It was only last month that we announced several new starters at UHY and we are delighted to be able to welcome two more new team members so soon afterwards.”
::
TRAFFORD Park-based VUE CCTV has boosted its team with eight appointments on the back of a number of contract wins.
The in-vehicle CCTV and telematics company has hired: two aftersales managers, three engineers, two sales administrators and an accounts assistant, thanks to an influx of new contract wins.
Brian Roberts has been hired as the new aftersales manager along with Terry Greenhalgh who will specialise in Blue Light sales and aftercare. Accounts assistant, Rebecca Tucker, sales ledger assistant, Lauren Averill and sales administrator, Melissa Jones, join to support VUE’s customer services team in its continuous growth.
Meanwhile, Tom Stapleton, Adam Crosby and Darren Buckby have joined the engineering team at the £4m turnover company.
::
WARRINGTON-based multi-channel retailer Dawsons Music, has strengthened its expanded education division with the appointment of Dawn Ashworth Hayward as new sales and marketing manager.
Moving from Findel Education in Hyde, she brings increased focus and contacts in the sector to Dawsons.
Dawsons managing director Mark Taylor said: “Dawn’s wealth of experience and industry knowledge has already made her a key addition to the Dawsons family. The growth of the education division signifies our intentions within this sector, and I’m confident that Dawn will play a key role in providing and implementing high quality solutions for our existing and new education customers in the UK and internationally.”
