Hill Dickinson promotes 16 to legal director

Law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the promotion of 16 senior associates to legal director.

The newly promoted colleagues span each of the firm’s main business groups – Business Services, Health and Marine - and work across a wide range of practice areas, including healthcare and public law, corporate, real estate, shipping, yachts and litigation.

They are also based across six different locations: in three of the firm’s seven UK offices (Manchester, Liverpool, London) and in three of its international offices, namely Monaco, Piraeus and Singapore.

Congratulating them on their achievement, CEO Craig Scott said: “I am always tremendously proud to see our people progressing through the ranks and achieving promotion. It takes a huge amount of work and dedication, over many years, to successfully ascend the legal career ladder and keep reaching the next rung. I am delighted to extend my personal thanks and those of the board to each of our new legal directors as they begin this next stage of their career with the firm.”

The full list of promotions is:

•    Kerry Barlow, HBG – Litigation, Liverpool
•    Thom Broughton, BSG – Real Estate Litigation, Manchester
•    Claire Christopholus, HBG – Healthcare & Public Law, Manchester
•    Francesca Conn, MBG – Yachts, Monaco
•    Kate Fawell-Comley, HBG – Healthcare & Public Law, London
•    Rachel Kelly, HBG – Healthcare & Public Law, Liverpool
•    Harris Kouppas, MBG – Shipping, Piraeus
•    Elizabeth Mainon, HBG – Litigation, Liverpool
•    Katy Oakes, BSG – Corporate, Liverpool
•    Kunho Park, MBG – Shipping, Singapore
•    Josh Pearson, BSG – Real Estate, Manchester
•    Jon Pearson-Basudev, BSG – Real Estate, Manchester
•    Emma Pollard, HBG – Healthcare & Public Law, London
•    James Redshaw, BSG – Corporate, Manchester
•    Laura Scott, BSG – Commercial Litigation, Manchester
•    Stephanie Wilkinson, HBG – Litigation, Liverpool

Ten of the 16 new legal directors are women, a pattern that has been consistent in recent years and evidence that efforts across the firm, and the legal profession as a whole, to increase gender equality at more senior levels are beginning to bear fruit.