Shakespeare Martineau welcomes trainees and apprentices

Shakespeare Martineau, a law firm with offices in Bristol, Stratford-upon-Avon and Southampton, has welcomed its latest cohort of trainees and graduate apprentices.

Freya Whiteside, Justin Clegg, Afrin Nanavatti, Jakub Mikulecky, Govind Johal, Jonah Cooke, Lisa Bauroth, Maria Sharpe, Rebecca Sault and Sinead Pow will all undertake four six-month seats in a variety of specialist practice areas, including education, insolvency, dispute resolution, infrastructure and contentious probate.

Emily Labbate and Eleanor White have also enrolled in the firm’s SQE graduate apprenticeship programme with the University of Law.

Emily Cupi, early ambitions development adviser at Shakespeare Martineau, said: “We’re delighted to welcome our latest cohort of trainees and apprentices to the firm, and we’re committed to ensuring they receive the very best start to their legal careers.

“They’re all extremely talented individuals, and I have no doubt they’ll each be an asset to their teams.

“We firmly believe in investing in our people to ensure we have the skills and talent necessary to drive the firm’s future organic growth.

“I look forward to watching them grow and develop as lawyers in their time with us, and I’m excited to see what the future holds for them.”

Last month, six of the firm’s trainees officially became qualified solicitors.

Helen Rowland and Tait Grundy are part of the firm’s litigation and restructuring team, while Katie Parker has joined the commercial property and development team.

Lucy Feghhi qualified into the firm’s commercial and IP team, Sophie Plant qualified into the education team, and Abigail Lynch joined the medical negligence team.

Sophie Baker qualified into the employment team in July, Camilla Uppal will be qualifying into the firm’s tax team in August, and Emily Sleight recently qualified as a solicitor through the CILEx route.