Business Development Manager joins West Midlands law firm Higgs

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Peter Davison

Liz Cole

A skilled business development professional with extensive experience in the legal sector has joined Higgs LLP.

Liz Cole is a new addition to the Business Development team at the award-winning West Midlands law firm.

In her new role at Higgs, Liz will spend half her time working with the business services department, assisting them with building relationships with established business partners and looking for new opportunities.

The remainder of her time will be split between the personal injury and clinical negligence team and general business development.

Liz, from Nottingham, said the variety of the role and Higgs’ culture attracted her to the job.

“I am delighted to have joined Higgs and I have had an excellent welcome,” she said.

“I was impressed by the firm’s people and culture. There is a really nice work ethos. Higgs genuinely values both its clients and its people, which is very refreshing.

“The role is extremely varied and there are some exciting opportunities to collaborate with some really worthwhile partners.

“I’m looking forward to throwing myself into networking opportunities and working on building new relationships.”

Nick Taylor, Managing Partner at Higgs LLP, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Liz to Higgs. She is a vastly experienced individual who brings huge knowledge to the business development team.

“This is a new role for the firm which will benefit our clients as well as the business.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.