Horwich Farrelly

Insurance firm Horwich Farrelly has announced the retention of six of its former trainee solicitors who has all been offered full time contracts following their qualification.

Five of the newly-qualified solicitors— Joanne Johnson, Hassan Atti, Emily Mountshaw, Sarah Potter and Sarah Jones (pictured, left to right)—will be based in the firm’s Manchester headquarters, while the sixth, Caroline Rand, will join the Liverpool office. Two of the newcomers will focus on counter fraud and two on motor and casualty, and one apiece will work on credit hire and costs issues.

Partner Ronan McCann commented: ‘At Horwich Farrelly we have a commitment to nurturing home-grown talent, which includes a policy to only offer training contracts to existing employees. Once again we have been hugely impressed with the talent displayed by those offered contracts and are delighted to have been able to retain all six of our newly qualified solicitors.

‘It is particular rewarding to see that two of the new solicitors had been redeployed from our claimant arm, Zest Legal, which closed to new business last summer. Whilst the decision had been made for the firm to focus on defendant work, we were determined to retain and grow talent of those previously working within Zest.

‘It is also great to see that so many of the new solicitors joining the profession are women. Together with 14 of the 19 associates promoted in December 2017 being female, today’s announcement reflects our commitment to gender equality.’