In Brief: College appointment for law firms; Firth Rixson invests; and more

LAW firm Dickinson Dees is to provide legal services for Leeds City College after being appointed to its panel.

Dickinson Dees, which recently announced it was moving its Yorkshire office from York to Leeds, has been appointed as the college’s nominated adviser on property law, student-related issues and other more general education and legal matters.

It has also been included on the college’s panel to provide ad hoc advice on employment law and commercial and contracts law.

Meanwhile, Lupton Fawcett, the Leeds and Sheffield-based commercial law firm has won the employment law portfolio of work with the college.

Louise Connacher, director of employment, will head the team advising the college.

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METAL engineering company Firth Rixson, which has its headquarters in Sheffield, is to invest in new equipment in support of its aerospace market expansion.

The company will install a new large isothermal forging press, along with a fully automated manufacturing line, in its newly commissioned closed die forging plant Firth Rixson Forgings LLC, in the US.

Firth Rixson said the isothermal unit will have the capability of manufacturing the broad range of current and projected high temperature aero engine isothermal component requirements.

“The next generation of aero engines will rely on greater numbers of isothermal forged components. Firth Rixson’s addition of isothermal forging capability once again affirms our commitment to provide the aerospace industry with technological solutions to cost, capability, and capacity constraints,” said chief executive David Mortimer.

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LEEDS-based construction firm Jack Lunn has been appointed by a Harrogate school to carry out the final phase of its multi-million-pound campus improvement scheme.

The work at Ashville College, which will be finished ahead of the new school year next month, is centred around its Elmfield teaching block, the senior girls’ boarding house and dining room.

The £1.3m project will include the total refurbishment of ten classrooms.

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SALLY-Anne Neal, a solicitor at Hull law firm Andrew Jackson, has gained mediation accreditation from the Law Society, enabling her to practice as a family mediator in all cases, including legally aided mediation.

Ms Neal has been working towards the accreditation since joining the firm last February.

Richard Hoare, partner and head of the family law team at Andrew Jackson, said: “Sally-Anne should feel proud to have gained her mediation accreditation.

“The process has been a gruelling one and required a great deal of dedication but she has demonstrated that she has all the skills required to become an excellent and highly effective mediator.”