APPOINTING FROM WITHIN, GORVINS REAP REWARD AS MARKET GROWS

A policy to nurture home-grown professionals and to ‘appoint from within’ wherever possible has proved invaluable and put Gorvins ahead in the legal game as the market continues to recover.

Offering the full range of legal services across an expanding client base, Gorvins provide exciting career opportunities to their team. Michael Smoult, who joined the firm as a newly-qualified lawyer, has recently been promoted to Senior Associate in the firm’s award-winning wills, trust and probate team, which is now one of the largest in the region.

Above: (From left) Senior Associate, Michael Smoult; Associate Solicitor, Linzi Perriman; Managing Partner, Lorraine Lockie; Trainee Solicitor, Samantha Ikin; Trainee Solicitor, Samantha Shemilt; Trainee Chartered Legal Executive, Karen Davenport

Gorvins’ commitment to their employees to provide long term opportunities often begins by offering training contracts: their conveyancing team has grown substantially in the last 12 months, including trainee solicitor Samantha Shemilt, who has secured a training contract after 18 months while Samantha Ikin is six months into her training contract with the firm’s personal injury team. More training contracts are expected to be awarded in various departments later in the year as a crop of excellent individuals start to achieve their potential.

Major growth for Gorvins has meant further recruitment across the business … both from within and also from outside where they have identified excellent people with the right level of commitment and potential. The family law team has been strengthened with the arrival of Linzi Perriman as Associate Solicitor and Ben Hardman has joined the marketing department to manage Gorvins’ online and social media presence.

Emma Sockett has become a paralegal in the firm’s commercial property team. Moving administrative employees into paralegal roles has long been a passion of Lorraine Lockie Managing Partner. Under her ‘sponsorship’ Karen Davenport recently completed the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) exams and is planning to qualify as a solicitor and hard on her heels is Danielle Hursthouse who has also become a paralegal in the wills, trust and probate department and is studying for her ILEX qualification.

Lorraine Lockie (Left) commented:

“In a recovering marketplace we need to attract and retain good people quickly and we are actively looking for people already with us who have the talent and determination to succeed. Nurturing new lawyers and giving senior opportunities to those who have proved themselves is really starting to bear fruit and means we can react with speed and confidence to new business as it comes in.”

For further information please contact Paul Longmire, Head of Marketing on 0161 903 5278, 07917 891097 or email paul.longmire@gorvins.com