Whilst it's not guaranteed that trainees will be retained on qualification, many of our previous trainees have stayed on with the firm:
Adrian Livesley, Managing Partner
Adrian joined the Firm in 1979, became a Partner in 1984, Chairman in 2008 and is now the firm’s Managing Partner. Full profile
Philip Hoddell, Head of Private Client Department
Articled to the firm in 1987, Philip qualified in 1989 and has been a partner since 1994. Full profile
Bruce Ballard, Head of Personal Tax, Trusts & Probate - Colchester
Bruce is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a Notary Public. Full profile
David Cammack, Partner
David trained with Birkett Long between 1993 and 1994, after which he worked for an international law firm before joining our Commercial Team in May 2000. He became a partner in June 2002 and qualified as a Notary Public in 2004. Full profile
Keith Songhurst, Partner
Keith joined the firm in 1999. On qualifying as a solicitor in 2001, Keith joined the Commercial Litigation and Construction Teams and was made a partner in 2008. Full profile
David Gibbs, Solicitor
David qualified into the Commercial Litigation and Insolvency teams in 2005. Full profile
Vicky Raynes, Solicitor
Vicky joined the Personal Tax Trusts and Probate team at Birkett Long after spending her 2 year training contract with the firm and qualifying in September 2007. Full profile
Emily Brown, Solicitor
Emily trained at Birkett Long and qualified as a solicitor in 2009, following which she became a permanent member of our Employment & Immigration and Commercial & Corporate Finance teams. Full profile
Jenny Bruce, Solicitor
Jenny joined Birkett Long as a trainee solicitor in September 2006. On qualification in September 2008 she joined the Personal Tax Trusts & Probate team in Chelmsford, having already spent 9 months of her training contract with the team. Full profile
Marc Thurlow, Solicitor
Marc trained at Birkett Long and qualified as a solicitor in 2009, following which he became a permanent member of our Commercial Litigation team. Full profile
Ben Parmenter, Solicitor
Having completed his training here at Birkett Long, Ben qualified into the Personal Tax, Trusts & Probate Team in September 2010. Full profile
Lisa Collins, Solicitor
Lisa qualified into the Family Team in September 2010 and specialises in privately funded family work. Full profile
Laura Bunting, Solicitor
Laura joined the firm in 2008 as a trainee solicitor and qualified into our Family team in 2010, having spent the last six months of her training in this team prior to qualification. Full profile
