Law firm grows Exeter office with new appointments

Browne Jacobson is continuing to expand its presence in the South West with three new fee earner appointments across various practices in its Exeter office in response to a significant rise in instructions from local and national clients.

Experienced Dorset County Council solicitor Jennifer Grigg is joined by Litigation Executive Danny Somers, a former Senior Insurance Consultant from Thrifty Car & Van Rental and Legal Executive Becky Wyld from Devon based Tozers Solicitors.

Jennifer, who is two years qualified, has specialist expertise in pre-procurement issues such as market engagement, procurement strategy and state aid. Whilst at Dorset County Council she advised on joint funding bids and partnership procurements with other local authorities and NHS trusts. Jennifer joins the Government & Infrastructure team.

Danny, who joins the firm’s Technical Claims & Social Care team, brings with him substantial claims handling experience and boasts a wealth of expertise in personal injury claims.

Becky, a qualified Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, is a new addition to the firm’s Health Advisory and Litigation team.  Her role at Tozers saw her lead on 30 high value clinical negligence cases as well as assist the Head of Department on establishing and building key relationships with the firm’s insurance sector clients.

Browne Jacobson is one of the UK’s leading providers of legal services to the private and public sector with clients including blue chip corporates, NHS trusts, major insurers, local authorities and key education and public sector organisations.

The three join teams that have had an impressive twelve months during which the firm’s technical claims and social care team scooped a national award at The Eclipse Proclaim Personal Injury Award whilst the health law team were announced ‘Legal Adviser of the Year’ at the Laing & Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards 2015. The Public sector team were also named Legal 500’s UK public sector team of the year (regional) for its outstanding client work and reputation as a leader in the market.

Commenting on these new Exeter appointments Mark Fowles, Technical Claims & Social Care Partner at Browne Jacobson said:

“We are delighted to welcome Jennifer, Danny and Becky to our growing Exeter team. Their varied backgrounds reflect the increasing diversity of expertise that we are able to offer all our clients and which, we believe, will further enhance the overall quality of service that we are able to provide.”

These latest additions take the number of fee earners across Browne Jacobson’s five office network to just under 440 in a year which has seen the law firm enter the Top 50 UK law firm rankings for the first time as well as record solid first half financial results for 2015/16 with like-for-like revenues up 7.5%.