DAC Beachcroft

DAC Beachcroft is strengthening its national claims validation team (CVT) with the appointment of four new partners.

Miles Hepworth has joined as a partner from Keoghs, together with his four-strong team of specialist fraud lawyers: Neville Sampson (associate), Pierre Smith (solicitor), Amy Goodwin (solicitor) and Sangheet Saghera (solicitor). All are based at DAC Beachcroft's Birmingham office.

Additionally, DAC Beachcroft partner Claire Newcombe has returned from maternity leave to head up the firm's CVT offering in Scotland. Since expanding CVT services into Scotland nine months ago, the team has grown significantly and now has 14 clients. Claire's expertise in Court of Session Practice and Procedure has given her exposure to a huge variety of personal injury cases. She also recently qualified as a solicitor advocate and now has rights of audience in all Civil Courts in Scotland, as well as in the Supreme Court in London

With effect from 1 May 2014, CVT has promoted two partners and one associate to join the CVT management team. Anthony Carrington and Dan Prince will become partners while Morgan Nash is promoted to associate.

Lorraine Carolan, national head of the CVT, says: "Anthony, Dan and Morgan's promotions are testament to the excellent work they have put into building their teams and their relationships with the firm's key clients. Their promotions, coupled with the arrival of Miles and his team along with Claire's return, reinforces our market-leading offering in the fraud area."