Four trainees have qualified into the Clarion team and have been retained as associates as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to bringing young talent into the legal profession.
Georgina Lill (commercial), Rosie Day (family), Jordan Yelland-Hey (real estate) and Isabelle Hammond (corporate) all took up their roles in September (pictured).
Clarion is also continuing to support nine second year trainee lawyers, including Amy Parry (employment), Melissa Rycroft (commercial property), Harry Beckett and Becky Walters (corporate), Jonathan Schneider (commercial), Brandon Bradley (family), Ross Boddy (commercial dispute resolution), Laura Savio (business recovery and insolvency), and Daniel Shaw (contentious private client).
Shaw is a solicitor apprentice, a programme that supports alternative routes to entering a career in law, and is embarking on his sixth and final year of combining study and work via the programme hosted by BPP University.
In addition, the firm is welcoming a further nine trainees who are embarking on their two-year training contracts with the firm this month.
Charlotte Hudson, Meg Gartland, Olivia Storey, Struan Mackenzie, Emily Prince, Sam Atkinson, Olamidé Owojori, Jacob Crooke and Mohammed Yoosoof have all started their training contracts.
Hudson, Gartland, Storey, Mackenzie and Atkinson were internal candidates, in paralegal roles, who have been successful in their training contract applications.
Martin Grange, partner and training principal at Leeds-based Clarion, said: “Ensuring that we continue to look after our people, nurturing young talent and encouraging progression, is a central part of the Clarion culture. We are proud to see our dynamic training programme going from strength to strength with an intake increase of 25% over the last couple of years (eight trainees to 10 next year), consistently resulting in able and enthusiastic lawyers joining the profession and boosting our team.”
“There’s no doubt that the positive working environment we have created where colleagues feel valued and support one another, is proving a winning formula both for those starting out on their legal careers and also for those rising through the ranks and developing their careers with us.”
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