Schofield Sweeney
Client SatisfactionLawyers
James Staton
- Phone01274 350 850
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Dispute resolution.
Position
Partner and head of the dispute resolution team. Extensive experience of commercial, property and construction litigation, including partnership and shareholder disputes. Also handles licensing matters for the firm’s clients in the leisure industry as well as clients faced with prosecution by regulatory authorities. Regularly uses mediation in the resolution of disputes.
Career
Trained Lupton Fawcett Bell Cumming & Co, Leeds; qualified 1982; Booth & Co, Leeds 1982-85; Wright & Wright/Gordons Wright & Wright 1985-97, partner 1989; partner Ralph C Yablon 1997-2001; partner Schofield Sweeney 2001 to date.
Memberships
Law Society’s Civil Justice Section; past president of Bradford Law Society.
Education
Malet Lambert School, Hull; University of Birmingham (1979 LLB 2(1)); College of Law, Chester 1979-80.
Leisure
Walking, theatre, reading, cricket (both playing and umpiring), member of the Rotary Club of Keighley.