Ison Harrison has made a series of promotions across its network of Yorkshire offices.
Among the promotions from solicitor to partner are Claire Loftus, Abbie Churchill and Helen Donaghy.
Daniel Kenworthy has been promoted to assistant head of residential conveyancing across the whole firm, Natalie White takes on the role of finance director and Claire Guthrie is promoted to head of accounts and cashiers.
This latest round of promotions follows Ison Harrison’s successful transition to becoming entirely employee owned at the beginning of 2022 after the three shareholder directors agreed to sell the business to an employee ownership trust.
Loftus, an expert in property law with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of conveyancing, joined Ison Harrison at the beginning of 2021.
She was recruited specifically to manage the firm’s 15th branch based in Bingley and, in the first 12 months, helped establish the new office as one of the firm’s highest earning branches.
Churchill joined Ison Harrison at the end of 2019 and took over the management of the Barnsley office in July 2021.
An experienced and well-respected family solicitor, Churchill has successfully grown the firm’s presence in Barnsley and across South Yorkshire to the point where an additional family solicitor has been appointed.
With 25 years of experience, Donaghy is a specialist clinical negligence lawyer with a national reputation.
She joined the firm in October 2020 and has made a significant contribution to growing the firm’s clinical negligence team.
Newly promoted to assistant head of residential conveyancing, Kenworthy joined the firm in April 2019, became manager of the Pontefract office a month later and a partner in July 2021.
This year has seen his role extend beyond his own branch office to support division head Jenny Bland to deliver the residential property offering across the entire firm.
White has been promoted to finance director following 15 years of service with the firm. She previously led the 13-strong accounts team as head of accounts and cashiers.
In her new role, white will assume overall financial responsibility for the firm’s 17 regional offices.
Guthrie has been promoted to the position of head of accounts and cashiers. She has been with the firm for seven years and has become an integral part of the accounts team alongside White.
Her new role includes the analysis and reporting on financial performance, the preparation and review of budgets, ensuring compliance with the SRA accounts rules, tax and audit compliance, and supervision of the accounts team.
Commenting on the promotions, Jonathan Wearing, managing director at Ison Harrison, said: “We’ve made the best possible start to 2023 with a number of strategic promotions that will benefit the progression of the business, just over 12 months after the firm became entirely employee owned.
“The past 12 months have seen a real focus on diversification through the expansion of our commercial offering substantially, to include corporate, litigation, employment and commercial property for an ever-growing commercial client base. I’m excited to see what the next 12 months will bring.
“I’m delighted to see these promotions off the back of one of our most successful years in our history. The contributions to the firm from the promoted individuals are all richly deserved.”
Pictured: (Top left) Claire Loftus, (Mid left) Daniel Kenworthy, (Bottom left) Abbie Churchill, (Top right) Helen Donaghy, (Mid right) Natalie White and (Bottom right) Claire Guthrie
Image source: Ison Harrison
