Duncan Shepherd, director and head of company commercial at Wake Smith, talks about which sectors are driving legal activity within the South Yorkshire’s business community and the type of work they are advising…

Gavin Hesketh has joined Wake Smith’s company commercial team in response to the firm’s increasing levels of corporate transactional work. The team, headed up by John Baddeley and Duncan Shepherd from Wake Smith’s…

"Since the beginning of 2015 we have seen a marked increase in transactional work acting for buyers, sellers and banks. "Generally this work involves acting for clients in the manufacturing, industrial, healthcare,…

Wake Smith Solicitors has made five new appointments to boost its growing team in its new Sheffield city centre headquarters.

If you suffer an injury through no fault of your own, you may be entitled to make a claim for compensation. If your injuries are serious or have a major impact on your income, your ability to work or the quality…

We have all heard of “health tourists” but what about “divorce tourists”? This may be a lesser known phenomenon in the North of the country but in London it is very much an accepted condition. It was only in 2012…

COURT documents from the 1870s relating to the trial of infamous Sheffield burglar and murderer Charles Peace have been donated to Sheffield Archives by Wake Smith Solicitors.

Many of the Chancellor's spring budget announcements came as no big surprise, but there were exceptions which include the much discussed sugar levy, but another announcement – the changes to non-residential Stamp…

All employers will have contracts of employment which agree terms of payment for staff – and this will include pay to cover holiday allowances. What many employers may not be aware of is the shifting legal focus…

Wake Smith director Nick Lambert talks us through the litigation team - one of the most experienced in the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire area.