Friday 29.01.2010

Halliwells Expands Planning Team with Key Partner Appointment

A leading lawyer has joined Halliwells LLP to head up the Sheffield office's new planning team.

Partner Steve Hawkins has over 30 years' experience in all aspects of planning law and has worked at Rollits in Hull and Gordons in Leeds for the past 18 years.

He is rated one of the country's top planning lawyers in this year's ?Best Lawyers in the UK "and the leading legal directory, Chambers, has described him as "...a star in advocacy with a wealth of experience and great legal knowledge."

Halliwells' existing planning team in the North is one of the region's most highly-regarded, and Steve is looking forward to the challenge of developing the Sheffield offering throughout South Yorkshire and into East, North and West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

Steve said: "Halliwells in Sheffield is known as one of the fastest-growing law firms in Yorkshire with a commitment to providing a first class commercial law service in the region and I'm delighted to join the team. I'm particularly looking forward to developing Halliwells' planning offering throughout South Yorkshire and beyond."

Welcoming Steve to the firm, Halliwells' head of planning Andrew Piatt, said: "We are delighted to welcome Steve to strengthen our planning offering and raise our profile in Yorkshire and Humber. There is great potential to expand our services in planning, highways and compulsory purchase across this region."

Welcoming Steve to South Yorkshire, head of the firm's Sheffield office, Neil Thompson said: "Steve is a welcome addition to our team in Sheffield and further evidence of our commitment to building the best full service commercial law offering in the region."

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