A law firm that prides itself on offering a “more dynamic and independent environment for experienced lawyers” has opened an office in Leicester.
Excello Law has created a permanent base in the city at 5 Museum Square, boosting its national network to nine locations.
It follows the recent recruitment of new real estate, family and dispute resolution teams in the region and reflects what the firm called “unprecedented growth” during the pandemic.
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The new office follows the launch of Excello’s Birmingham office in 2019 and heralds an ambitious growth strategy to bring the fee share, consultant lawyer model to more 海角视频 hubs.
Launched in 2009, the business now has more than 35 lawyers working across the Midlands.
The firm said it will continue to invest in its regional bases this year, bringing on board new consultant lawyers and additional facilities in areas such as the North West – with a new office base just opened in Manchester – the North East, centred around Newcastle and Durham, Bristol and the South West and along the South coast around Southampton and Portsmouth.
Midlands regional director Richard Osborn joined Excello two years ago from the Leicester office of Weightmans.
He is a well known face on the city business scene, helping launch the city’s Business Improvement District and helping lead Team Leicester, the county’s public/private sector inward investment group.
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He said: “Having opened our office and grown in Birmingham over the last two years, our expansion across the region has continued apace and our opening of the Leicester office demonstrates our commitment to the East Midlands.
“I am pleased to see the strength of new recruits joining us who are already well known in the Leicester market and have no doubt that both clients and lawyers are seeing the benefits of working with a leading new-model, disruptor law firm such as Excello Law.”
Excello recruitment director Joanne Losty said: “Predictions show that dispersed model firms like ours will be leading a recruitment wave in the legal profession over the next five years.
“We’ve been working this way for over a decade and have developed a ‘best of breed’ support infrastructure, including experienced secretarial, paralegal, finance and IT services, for consultant lawyers so they hit the ground running when they join us.
“We’ve recently welcomed real estate lawyers Satpaul Dard and Anil Kumar, family lawyers Swati Somaiya and Lorraine Phimister, dispute resolution specialist John Gordon, and franchise specialist Gurmeet Jakhu to our Midlands team in recent months.
“The pandemic has demonstrated to lawyers that they can achieve the best of both worlds – whether hybrid or fully agile working - and we’re putting in place the facilities to give them complete freedom to work when and where they want to.”