Leading commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the promotion of nine legal directors to partner across a variety of practice areas in its business services and health business groups.
The new partners span the firm’s Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds offices, with the business services group making three legal directors partner, and the healthcare group promoting six to partner level.
As a result, in the past two years the firm has progressed 22 colleagues to partner through its internal promotion processes across all three of its business groups and a broad range of its locations.
The full list of promotions for 2024 is:
• Katie Austin – Private Client, Liverpool
• Joe Orme-Paul – Employment & Education, Liverpool
• Tim Unwin – Real Estate, Liverpool
• Ruth Griffiths – Health Primary Care, Leeds
• Joanna Crichton – Healthcare & Public Law, Liverpool
• Rebecca Sharrock – Healthcare & Public Law, Manchester
• Sion Davies – Healthcare & Public Law, Manchester
• Richard Parker – Health Commercial, Manchester
• Rizvan Rasul – Costs Health, Liverpool (promoted to partner equivalent)
Nearly half of the partner promotions are women, which is strong evidence that the firm is actively committed to increasing gender equality at more senior levels. In May this year, Hill Dickinson promoted ten women out of 16 senior associates to legal director.
Craig Scott, CEO at Hill Dickinson, said: “seeing our talented colleagues develop their careers and ascending through the legal ranks here at Hill Dickinson is one of the most rewarding aspects of my role and these promotions reflect tremendous effort and dedication on their part over many years. To reach the status of partner is a fantastic achievement. This year we have seen impressive profitable growth in all areas of our business and these latest promotions are further evidence that we are committed, as a firm, to investing in the development of our people. They will be our future leaders, driving our continued success for years to come.”
