New partner promotions ‘set the scene for year of success’ at Yorkshire law firm

Law firm Ison Harrison has announced nine promotions across its network of Yorkshire offices.

Among the promotions from solicitor to partner are Ami Law, Gemma Vine, Magda Dakowicz, Tim Wilson, Simon Helliwell, Jessica Haigh, James Pascoe, Katrina Stapleton and Georgina Pogge-Von Strandman. This latest round of promotions follows Ison Harrison’s successful transition to becoming entirely employee-owned at the beginning of 2022.

Gemma Vine joined the firm as an experienced specialist inquest lawyer in 2020. She has played a key role in helping the firm develop a national reputation for inquest and civil liberties work and due to her profile and expertise, was instrumental in securing the firm’s recent Claims Against Public Authorities (CAPA) legal aid contract.

Magda Dakowicz joined the new build team as a conveyancing assistant in 2016 and quickly rose through the ranks at several regional offices until taking on the responsibility of running the new build team based at the firm’s Leeds head office.

Tim Wilson joined the firm in 1997 in what was then the firm’s largest team; the Road Traffic Accident team. Not only a well-established wills and probate fee-earner at the Crossgates office, he is respected and well-known across the firm having worked at various offices and teams throughout his career including head office and Morley.

Simon Helliwell has been at the firm for over two decades, originally joining in 1999. He joined the personal injury team in 2004 and his approach to catastrophic injury and brain injury cases is second to none, consistently delivering the best results for his clients.

Jessica Haigh joined the firm in August 2021 as an assistant solicitor working out of the Pontefract and Barnsley offices. Specialising in wills and probate, she is now based permanently in Barnsley.

James Pascoe joined as a residential property lawyer in August 2017 and was the first person to start working from the Harrogate office when it opened in 2021.

Katrina Stapleton has been instrumental in supporting the clinical negligence team. Since joining in 2017, the performance of the division has gone from strength to strength and Katrina has played a key part in the department’s growth and success over the last seven years. She is also a standard bearer for wellbeing initiatives at the firm.

Georgina Pogge-Von Strandman joined the residential property team in 2015 bringing several years of local and national experience into her role. Now branch manager of the Harrogate office, she quickly established the firm’s presence in the town and has grown the office into one of the firm’s best-performing regional branches.

Ami Law joined the firm’s clinical negligence division in 2015. Ami has grown to become one of the most able litigators and clinical negligence lawyers on the team and was promoted to Associate last year. Ami has also taken the lead on successful business development on behalf of the Snappy Trust.

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily

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