Top 100 UK law firm Hugh James has appointed eight new partners and two directors, while home moving group Movera has strengthened its leadership team with a new director of professional standards.
Glen Walker brings two decades of experience in client-facing and risk-focused roles to Movera, which carries out over 300,000 conveyancing transactions every year. His arrival follows a series of senior hires at Movera, as the company strengthens its commitment to quality, compliance and risk management.
Walker will expand the professional services team at Movera and recruitment is underway for a number of new roles. He said of the appointment:
“Movera is a business that’s genuinely open to change and improvement, which was one of the main reasons I joined. The culture here is collaborative, fast-paced and ready to embrace new ways of thinking. Professional standards is about more than compliance—it’s about setting the tone for how a business operates and supports its people and clients.”
At Hugh James, the latest round of promotions includes eight new partners, two legal directors, eight senior associates and eight associates. The appointments are spread across the firm’s Cardiff, London and Manchester offices and ‘underscore the firm’s continued investment in nurturing specialist talent across its offices in England and Wales’.
More than half of the promotions so far this year have been awarded to women, resulting in a majority female partnership now at 54% and ‘enhanced opportunities for female lawyers across the board’.
Joining the partnership are Christy Welsh (commercial property), Ruth Davies, Nia-Wyn Evans and Francesca Bamsey (military), Rebecca Mather (clinical negligence), Ryan Taylor (private wealth disputes), Mark Wilding (Court of Protection), and Erich Kurtz (financial mis-selling).
The new legal directors are Kirsten Franklin (trusts and estates administration) and Kimberley Sutton (environment). Senior associates and associaties have been appointed across a range of disciplines.
Managing partner Alun Jones said:
“As we celebrate our 65th year, these promotions mark another important milestone in our ongoing journey. This latest round of promotions reflects our people-first ethos and a culture where talent thrives, which in turn strengthens our ability to deliver specialist individual and business client services from every compass point in England and Wales.”
