Wake Smith has added two solicitors to its growing team of legal experts as it continues to boost its busy teams in response to increases in work.
Harriet Gardner and Millie Vaughan join the 80-strong firm which recently secured the coveted industry standard Lexcel accreditation for the 10th year running.
Harriet joins the busy employment team headed up by Stacey Cox, with five years’ experience working in regional law firms, while Millie Vaughan returns to Wake Smith’s company commercial team, where she qualified as a solicitor in September 2022.
Harriet will advise clients on the full range of employment law issues, including both contentious and non-contentious matters and regularly supports employers with day-to-day employment law and HR issues including difficult investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
Her specialisms include Employment Tribunal claims and she also has particular experience in multifaceted, complex, cases including allegations relating to unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing.
Harriet said: “I was attracted to Wake Smith after a solicitor friend recommended the firm. She continuously said how much she loved the firm, and her job, and that she felt it was a great environment to learn and progress. I highly value her comments and I haven’t looked back since starting. I am thoroughly enjoying my position and since starting, my family have commented that I have got my “spark”, probably because I don’t stop talking about how much I’m loving it here.”
Millie Vaughan comes back into the established company commercial team, led by Wake Smith chairman John Baddeley and director Rebecca Robinson.
She will work on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers, acquisitions and disposals; re-organisations; shareholder and partnership agreements; general corporate matters and general commercial matters such as loan agreements and terms and conditions.
Millie said: “I am really pleased to be re-joining Wake Smith’s Company Commercial team. Wake Smith has a great reputation, and it is a friendly and welcoming firm. I am very much looking forward to working with the team again.”
John Baddeley, chairman and director in Wake Smith’s company commercial team, said: “We are delighted to welcome Harriet and Millie who bring a mixture of skills and experience, and will add strength and depth to the firm as demand for our legal services continues.
“These latest additions demonstrate that Wake Smith’s workplace culture and variety of work appeals to lawyers with experience, who want to further grow with our firm.”
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