Commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the promotion of 18 associates to senior associate the firm’s November promotions round.
The promotions span all three of the firm’s three core business groups: Business Services, Health and Marine, and six of the firm’s 10 UK and international offices, including in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Hill Dickinson chief executive Peter Jackson said he was proud of the firm’s commitment to nurturing talent from entry level up, saying:
“I am delighted to announce the promotion of 18 of our associates to senior associate. We’ve seen a regular intake of incredibly bright and personable talent from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences in recent years. With each successive promotions round we are reaping the rewards from that as our junior lawyers begin to rise through the ranks.
“Having marked our sixth consecutive year of financial growth for the year ending April 2022 I am in no doubt about the role our people play in enabling us to achieve those results. I extend my warmest congratulations, and those of the board, to them all.”
Widely recognised for its efforts to remove barriers that traditionally prevent women from achieving promotion as rapidly as their male counterparts, the firm is seeing greater numbers of women coming through. Overall this year, 11 of the 18 lawyers promoted (just over 61%) are women.
Commenting on this, Carolyn Morgan, Director of HR, said: “We are pleased that so many of our junior lawyers are successfully advancing their careers with us, in particular the increasing numbers of women. A renewed focus on Learning and Development in the past 18 months is playing an important role in this, enabling everyone, regardless of gender, work patterns, team and location, to access the same opportunities to progress, firmwide.”
Peter Jackson added: “It is good news for Hill Dickinson as a firm, for us as an employer of choice and for our clients, for whom we strive always to provide the highest levels of service, knowledge and experience.”
Summary of promotions split by business group:
Business Services
| Phil Styles | Construction | Liverpool |
| Laura Marginson | Employment Commercial | London – City |
| Brian Maeng | Corporate-Commercial | London – City |
| Sara Mullen | Corporate-Commercial | London – City |
| Kelly Monaghan | Private Client | Liverpool |
| Carley Dhand | Employment & Education | Liverpool |
Marine
| Amelia Villiers-Stuart | Yachts | London – St James’s |
| Olga Newman | Commodities | London – City |
| Peter Thornton | Shipping | London – City |
| Bhieman Anandakumar | Shipping | Singapore |
| Pui Yip Leung | Shipping | Hong Kong |
| Felix Cheung | Shipping | Hong Kong |
Health
| Maria Nicholls | Costs | Manchester |
| Kelly Miller | Litigation | Liverpool |
| Catherine Wheatley | Employment NHS | Manchester |
| Laura Myles | Litigation | Liverpool |
| Gareth Miller | Healthcare and Public Law | Manchester |
| Ella Casson | Litigation | London |
