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Addleshaws trainee quits firm after becoming Labour MP

10 May 2010 | By Luke McLeod-Roberts

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An Addleshaw Goddard trainee has left the firm after winning a seat for Labour at the general election.

Jonathan Reynolds was returned for the solidly Labour Stalybridge and Hyde constituency on the edge of Manchester with a majority of 2,700.

He was previously a trainee at the Manchester office of Addleshaws, where he was carying out a real estate seat having already completed his corporate seat.

Reynolds said: “I loved working at Addleshaws, but people approached me and asked me to run. It’s where I live, I wouldn’t have stood anywhere else.”

He said he believed that some of his experience at the national firm would stand him in good stead for his forthcoming stint at Westminster, adding: “I learnt a commercial relationship for dealing with clients and am able to handle late nights and heavy work-loads, which should be useful in a hung parliament. There are also issues around access to justice and, I think,
many lawyers would like legislation to be better drafted.”

He added that the issues that mattered most to his constituents are standards at the local Tameside hospital, transport links into Manchester and housing and crime.

Reynolds previously studied at the University of Manchester and BPP Law School and represented the Longdendale ward on Tameside Council. He was also a member of Tameside Council’s cabinet and served as deputy chair of Longdendale and Hattersley District Assembly.

His success at the general election is in contrast to that of six other candidates and members of the profession profiled in The Lawyer, all of whom failed to be elected (10 May 2010).

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  • Deborah McDonald | 11-May-2010 9:46 am

    Mr Reynold is not the only lawyer who has secured a seat in the new Parliament.

    Former Legal Executive lawyer David Nuttall has become MP for Bury North for the Conservatives, replacing retiring Labour MP David Chaytor, one of the MPs facing prosecution over his expenses.
    Mr Nuttall, who is 48, left school at 18 and joined a firm of solicitors in Sheffield as a trainee legal executive.

    Having become a Fellow and completed a law degree by correspondence from London University, David then decided to dual qualify as a solicitor in 1990. He eventually became senior partner of the firm he had joined from school, until selling the practice in 2006. We understand that Mr Nuttall qualified as a Notary Public in 1998 and now practises solely as a Notary.

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  • A Nonny Mouse | 12-May-2010 8:47 am

    Deborah, sweetheart, the election's over.

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  • Anonymous | 12-May-2010 10:58 am

    James Wharton is a solicitor and is now the Conservative MP for Stockton South

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  • Anonymous | 14-May-2010 3:59 pm

    Ex SJBs partner Jonathan Djanogly is MP for Huntingdon.

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  • Anonymous | 18-May-2010 2:51 pm

    Cool

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  • Mr Kidd | 21-May-2010 5:08 pm

    BPP Law school is a reputable institution with schools around the country. The MP salary is slightly better than the trainee salary.

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