Which five words best describe you?
- Adventurous
- Reliable
- Genuine
- Conscientious
- Adaptable
What's my role?
I am a legal secretary in the Commercial Property department
My experience
I began working as a legal secretary at a small Intellectual Property law firm in St Albans, a couple of years after finishing university. This was 17 years ago and have since worked as a legal secretary and PA within a number of areas of law including Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Immigration and Residential & Commercial Property in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Testimonials
Coffin Mew has a lot of contacts within the property industry. They are able to draw on their own commercial experience from talking to contacts and specialists and can advise on current market practices
When you are dealing with contracts and heads of terms with what I would say is company jargon, if there is anything we haven’t understood they put it simply for us in language terms we understand
Every new project brings unique circumstances and our contact partner, Peter Fellows, always invests time to visit us to discuss and explore our ambitions, which leads on to a brief summary illustrating both opportunities and problems. This is a great platform for formalising instructions and working together. The team have taken trouble to get to know us, and the service provided feels tailored very much to our company style, rather than just another client.
The team is particularly good at assisting in complex or unusual property development deals. They are one of the most approachable firms, very down-to-earth, but look at the wider picture.
Other Team Members
Nick Leavey
Chairman/Partner - Head of Real Estate
Amanda Read
Partner - Commercial Property
David Thomas
Partner - Commercial Property
Derek Walsh
Partner & Head of Agriculture & Rural Business
Hemant Amin
Partner - Commercial Property
Peter Fellows
Partner - Commercial Property
Conor Geoghegan
Senior Associate Solicitor
Mike Cooper
Senior Associate Solicitor
Ben Loosemore
Associate Solicitor
Eve Laws
Associate Solicitor
Hannah Bassett
Associate Solicitor
Elizabeth Gibbons
Operations Manager
Rebecca Cardy
Solicitor
Samantha Mabbutt
Solicitor
Simon Brown
Solicitor
Stefan Banks
Solicitor
Amanda Glover
Trainee Solicitor
David Harris
Trainee Solicitor
Marion Wilcock
Consultant
Sue Warwick
Consultant
Amy Cushing
Paralegal
Laura Bacon
Plot Sales Team Manager
Alexa Plain
Legal Secretary
Tracey Wilkins
Legal Secretary
Collette Winkworth
Legal Secretary
Gemma Littlechild
Legal Secretary
Linda Cady
Legal Secretary
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