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