International Friendship Day July 30 marked International Friendship Day, to mark the occasion, the team at Express wrote messages of positivity, kindness and friendship to brighten up a fellow colleague’s day. We placed boxes around the office with cards for people to use and pop in the box to be delivered on the day.
Mental Health Awareness Week This year’s theme was #GetMoving, we created walking routes for members of the team to follow to get outside at lunch. We also held webinars on the importance of nutrition and building resilience. We also sat down with some of our team last week to hear a bit more about what […]
Cultural Food Night To celebrate Eid, we organised a cultural food night where people made and brought a dish from their culture. The event was a massive success and we had dishes from around the world!
Stress Awareness Month April marked stress awareness month and to celebrate the EDI Network organised a yoga session hosted by our very own Sharon Denby. We spent the morning relaxing, meditating and learning a range of poses. We also had stress awareness training from Marion Hewitt organised by Raana Lowery where we gained insight on […]
“Despite our obvious disappointment for the client, we still achieved a remarkable result. It’s not every day you will see a judge award full costs in this manner. Credit goes to our team, who fought the case all the way.” Olivia Mayhew, Trainee Solicitor, Employers’ Liability The Case The case revolves around our client, a […]
International Womens’ Day 2024 On March 8th we celebrated International Women’s day by putting together a video of our staff celebrating this year’s theme set by the UN, “Inspire Inclusion.”
Express Solicitors is proud to have renewed its partnership with The Maggie Oliver Foundation (TMOF) for a further year, marking the occasion with another donation. TMOF was founded by detective-turned-whistle-blower Maggie Oliver who exposed the Rochdale grooming scandal. The foundation supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation. We are honoured to support TMOF’s life-changing […]
Personal injury law firm Express Solicitors is continuing to bolster its senior team by appointing Charles Layfield as its Chairman Non-Executive Director. Charles has been tasked with readying the firm for the next series of business growth and brings with him a wealth of experience from his various director roles in the legal, insurance and connected sectors. […]
Neurodiversity Awareness Week 18th March marked Neurodiversity Awareness week and to mark it we sat down with some of our employees to hear about their experiences with neurodiversity.
We are delighted to continue our support of leading brain injury charity Headway UK. The development will see Express Solicitors renew its corporate membership and join the brain injury solicitor’s directory for 2024. The national charity has a network of branches across the UK supporting people affected by brain injury and their families. Their mission […]
Diwali Diwali is known as the festival of lights and a common thing which Hindu people do at Diwali is to decorate the inside and outside of their homes with Diyas (candles) as decoration, but also to invite the Goddess Lakshmi into our homes to bless them. This year we had an activity of painting […]
The Lawyer Top 100 law firm is edging closer and closer to its target of £60m turnover within the next five years. In 2023, group turnover is just shy of £54m, up by 28% from £42m in 2022. James Maxey, CEO of Express Solicitors, commented: “We’ve had another great year, every part of the business […]
Manchester-based personal injury specialists Express Solicitors has again made an impressive round of promotions and new hires across different areas of the business. Some 63 staff members have progressed in some way thanks to two recent acquisitions and Express’s integral commitment to internal development. Chief Executive Officer James Maxey said: “Our firm is always growing, […]
Top 100 law firm Express Solicitors has acquired two well-known Manchester personal injury firms this week, Amelans Solicitors and Jefferies Solicitors. Chief Executive Officer at Express Solicitors, James Maxey said: “We are thrilled to have acquired Amelans Solicitors and Jefferies Solicitors, they are both companies we have held in high regard for some time. They […]
We are proud to announce that Express Solicitors will be working alongside The Maggie Oliver Foundation in order to support the fantastic work they do to support victims of abuse.
We will be offering four pupillage positions to start this year and a further four for 2024. This was all following the firm becoming an authorised training organisation by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). We hope to increase this in the future in line with our growth plans. Read more: Bath Beacon (February 1, 2023). […]
We are proud to announce we have achieved our third consecutive year of record turnover! Read more: The Business Desk (January 30, 2023) Personal injury law firm maintains record turnover and targets further acquisitions
Our head of pupillage, Nyssa Crorie, who was hired as our first in-house barrister in 2016 and promoted to partner in 2019 with a brief to build the firm’s advocacy department explains that the first cohort of four pupils would be recruited to start in September, with a further four positions open for the following […]
We have just acquired a new office in a £4.4m deal, in line with its strategic growth plans. Read more about this at the following links: Law News (January 13, 2022) Top 100 Law Firm Express Solicitors Acquires New Office Building The Business Desk (January 12, 2023) Law firm completes £4.4m deal for new 40,000 […]
We’re taking part in this year’s Legal Cheek Spring 2023 Virtual Vacation Scheme and Law Fair. Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, feel free to look at the programme on the Legal Cheek website.
We are very proud to announce that our team has now grown to over 500 staff following the successful acquisition of an established North-West based Personal Injury law firm.
On 31st October we successfully acquired Michael W Halsall Solicitors, bringing not only an increase in staff, but also 2500 new cases and an office building in Newton-Le-Willows.
