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Adam  Hodson

Adam Hodson

Lanyon Bowdler

Associate solicitor Adam has a keen interest and speciality in dealing with claims involving: Delayed diagnosis / missed diagnosis; Surgical errors; Cancer cases (including delayed diagnosis and incorrect treatment); Deaths and Inquests.  

Andrew Pegg

Andrew Pegg

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of Dispute Resolution Team. Acts for a wide range of clients from individuals to national and multi-national companies advising on a wide variety of disputed matters including contracts, negligence, nuisance, insolvency, land and judicial review. Particular sectors include manufacturing, construction and agriculture as well as professional negligence. Recent instructions include a multi-million pound dispute regarding manufacturing machinery and a complex contractual dispute regarding a long and ambiguous supply chain.

Beth Heath

Beth Heath

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of the Clinical/Medical Negligence Team. Beth combines a uniqueness of professionalism with compassion and empathy. She specialises in high value, complex cases – mainly maternity claims. She acts for a high number of children who have suffered brain damage at or around the time or their birth. She is determined and passionate about obtaining life-changing results for her clients. She is praised for her wealth of experience in drafting multi-million pound Schedules of Loss and her knowledge of the figures.  

Brian Evans

Brian Evans

Lanyon Bowdler

Managing partner and head of agriculture. Experienced litigator used to dealing with many types of commercial disputes, including shareholder and partnership duties, agricultural disputes, contractual disputes and insolvency matters. Other sectors worked in include manufacturing, construction, health and social care and leisure. Brian is a CEDR accredited mediator. Although his mediation practice encompasses a variety of commercial sectors and general civil litigation he has a particular interest in mediating disputes in the agricultural sector.

Caroline Yorke

Caroline Yorke

Lanyon Bowdler

Associate Solicitor – Family Law. Divorce, matrimonial finance, private law children applications, domestic abuse relief. Caroline has built up a wealth of experience in all areas of family law and is an accredited specialist member of Resolution in 2007, for financial relief on divorce and domestic abuse.

Claire  Vale

Claire Vale

Lanyon Bowdler

Associate Solicitor She acts for individuals in a variety of different matters, including claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, probate claims, substitution and removal of personal representatives, rectification of wills and professional negligence. Claire also has experience of post-death cases involving financial abuse by attorneys and the recovery of monies to the estate.

Claire  Yardley

Claire Yardley

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner, Dispute Resolution Commercial Litigation; Civil Litigation and Property Litigation Acting for companies and Individuals in matters including Contractual Disputes Negligence Claims Property Disputes Company Disputes Cohabitation Disputes County courts, High court and Property Tribunal Matters Mediation

David  Pugh

David Pugh

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner David has been working in the Private Client Team since 2013 and handles all types of work including the administration of estates.

Dawn Humphries

Dawn Humphries

Lanyon Bowdler

A partner and head of the Personal Injury Department, who specialises in serious and catastrophic, brain and spinal injuries arising from RTA and accidents at work resulting in damages in excess of six figures. She has a number of high profile work related stress cases, including specialist military post traumatic stress, and secondary victim claims occurring both within the UK and during tours of duty overseas. She is committed to using mediation as an alternative in dispute resolution to trial, an advocate of early interim payments for rehabilitation, case management, care accommodation, aids and equipment and vocational support.

Debbie Humphries

Lanyon Bowdler

A partner at the firm. Debbie has experience in all types of personal injury claims. She represents clients who have sustained life changing injuries in a wide variety of circumstances including road traffic accidents, accidents at work and accidents where they are visitors. She has also represented a number of families where accidents have tragically resulted in the loss of a child or partner as a result of someone else’s negligence. Debbie has also assisted claimants whose complex medical backgrounds prior to their accident has required understanding and sensitivity to ensure a successful conclusion. Debbie’s role is to secure compensation and support that will provide clients with whatever they need for the rest of their lives. Debbie is focused on engaging high quality rehabilitation to ensure clients achieve the best recovery with the right professionals. She has established care packages with case management input, occupational therapy, speech therapy and psychology input securing substantial interim payments to fund these when needed and ensuring that her clients have the opportunity to achieve their best outcome and get to live their best lives. Debbie is recognised as a Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Edward Rees

Edward Rees

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of Private Client Team, specialising in wills, tax planning, trusts, administration of estates and lasting powers of attorneys.

Edward Burrell

Edward Burrell

Lanyon Bowdler

Ed is a partner at Lanyon Bowdler and advises clients on a variety of aspects of corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in corporate transactions, including company/business sales and purchases.

Emma  Broomfield

Emma Broomfield

Lanyon Bowdler

Clinical Negligence partner at Lanyon Bowdler with 20 years specialist experience acting on behalf of claimants. She acts on behalf of individuals with cerebral palsy,  catastrophic brain injury, spinal injury, cancer and amputees as well as on a wide range of cases involving misdiagnosis, inadequate treatment and surgical error.

Grainne Walters

Grainne Walters

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of Corporate and Commercial Department, specialising in corporate finance advisory and transactional work for private companies. Particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders agreements, private equity, corporate reorganisations and growth companies. Also experienced in a wide range of commercial matters including renewable energy projects, internet and e-commerce issues, agency distribution arrangements and trading documentation.

John Merry

John Merry

Lanyon Bowdler

John is senior partner at Lanyon Bowdler and head of the Employment Department. He acts for employers of all sizes from small businesses to large national and international concerns, including in relation to business transfers, the preparation of contracts of employment, effecting dismissals and conducting in-house training. John advises both employers and employees in connection with employment tribunal proceedings and appeals and is an experienced advocate.

Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner specialising in all areas of private client work, particularly drafting wills and inheritance tax planning. Also deals with estate administrations (many involving significant agricultural property), trusts (some involving landed estates) and prepares powers of attorney.

Laura Weir

Laura Weir

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner, based in the Shrewsbury office. Represents clients who have suffered life-changing injuries, with a particular expertise in brain, spine and birth injury claims

Lucy Small

Lucy Small

Lanyon Bowdler

Lucy has over 20 years experience in both clinical negligence and personal injury litigation acting solely for the victim. Lucy has a wide range of experience of medical negligence work including ophthalmic, orthopaedic, obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology, cosmetic surgery and GP care and has significant experience in complex fatal clinical negligence claims.

Lucy  Speed

Lucy Speed

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner / Court of Protection Specialises in all Court of Protection matters including: Contentious and non contentious applications to the Court of Protection, for the appointment of a deputy, making statutory will, health and welfare matters and any matter on which the Court is needed. Ongoing management of professional deputyships, whether in litigations or not, including the most challenging and complex matters.

Neil  Davies

Neil Davies

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of Court of Protection Department, acting as professional deputy for clients with acquired brain injuries. Specialising in contentious financial and welfare applications to the Court.

Philippa  Pearson

Philippa Pearson

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner, Family Law Philippa is highly experienced in family law including both divorce and the separation of cohabiting couples, especially in mid-high net worth cases.  

Phillip  Roberts

Phillip Roberts

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner Deals with all types of personal injury claims including RTAs and accidents at work particularly specialising in farming and HGV accidents and also fatal accident claims.

Praveen Chaudhari

Praveen Chaudhari

Lanyon Bowdler

Head of Property Department, acts for landlords, tenants and developers in all aspects of sales, acquisitions and various lease work. Advises on the property aspects in various commercial transactions including share and asset sales and purchases, re-organisations, shareholder agreements, joint ventures and franchising. Acts in a wide range of non-contentious commercial property transactions in the Commercial & Agricultural Property Department at the Telford offices. He acts for landlords, tenants and developers in all aspects of sales, acquisitions and various lease work. He has dealt with a wide variety of industrial, agricultural, development and retail properties from shopping centres, industrial workshops, agricultural holdings to public houses and hotels, including properties throughout Shropshire Herefordshire and the West Midlands. May 2022:  Took on overall responsibility for residential property as well as commercial and agriculture,  Is also responsible for strategy and commercial direction, business development, recruitment and compliance.  

Staci  Robinson

Staci Robinson

Lanyon Bowdler

Associate solicitor in family la Staci deals with various types of family law cases, including divorce and financial matters, and private law children matters. Staci also advises on pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements and unmarried couples on cohabitation agreements and how assets should be divided in the event of a separation. She can also advise on orders concerning domestic violence, representing both those who are victims of abuse and those who have been accused on domestic violence.  

Steven Corfield

Steven Corfield

Lanyon Bowdler

Principal Agricultural Consultant – Commercial Property Solicitor Steven specialises in providing professional advice in areas including freehold and leasehold matters, tenancies, partnerships agreements, inheritance and capital taxation, mineral rights, sporting rights, telecommunications and renewables as well as all things rural business-related.

Sue Hodgson

Sue Hodgson

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner and head of the Family Department. Sue has experience in all types of family cases including divorce, linked financial matters and disputes regarding children. She has experience in high conflict Children Act matters including matters involving jurisdictional issues and change of primary care base. Sue has a good manner with clients providing clear and concise advice and is an experienced advocate.

Tania McGee

Tania McGee

Lanyon Bowdler

Associate solicitor - Commercial and Agricultural Property Undertaking sales and purchases, secured lending work, development work including options, conditional contracts, promotion agreements, overage agreement, planning obligations, commercial property landlord and tenant matters and registration of unregistered land.

Timothy Treherne

Timothy Treherne

Lanyon Bowdler

Partner Tim undertakes all aspects of residential property transactions including sales and purchases of both freehold and leasehold properties, re-mortgages, matrimonial transfers and first registrations.