Irwin Mitchell promotes two non-lawyers in partner round

Finance director Mark Dakin and costs manager Steven Green have become the first two non-lawyers to be promoted to the equity in a development made possible by the Legal Services Act’s deregulation of the industry.

Irwin Mitchell is one of the first firms to have become an LDP since the act came into force last year.

Managing partner John Pickering said: “The legal market’s changing all the time and the promotion of two non-lawyers for the first time to equity status is an important one but it’s just one of many innovations in recent years which put Irwin Mitchell at the vanguard of change in the legal sector.”

In addition, the firm has promoted eight lawyers to its salaried partner ranks, taking the total number of partners to 147.

Three of the new partners will be based in Sheffield, with two apiece in the Birmingham and Leeds offices, while one has been made up from its Manchester base.

Pickering added: “These appointments are a clear sign that we remain well placed to continue growing as a business, delivering quality service and expertise to all of our clients across a broad range of legal services and meeting the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for all law firms in the coming years.”

The full list of new partners is as follows:

Sheffield

Helen Ashton

Tom Mather

Jonathan Scarsbrook

Birmingham

Mandy Luckman

Stephen Nye

Leeds

Glenn Hayes

Carolyn Heaton

Manchester

Matthew Brown