Law Express - About us

Law Express's legal advisors have all worked in private practice as solicitors or barristers for a minimum of five years.

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Jane specialises in banking, company, commercial, employment and insolvency advice. She typically works with company directors and HR advisors, as well as with restauranteurs and hoteliers through Law Express' client the British Hospitality Association.

In her early career, Jane practiced in the London office of Norton Rose. She then worked in Dubai as legal counsel with Wardley Middle East, a division of HSBC. After a gap to bring up her family she taught on the Legal Practice Course at Bristol University in the areas of company, commercial and banking law.

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Joy specialises in property law, personal injury, medical negligence and consumer law. She typically advises employees through Law Express' EAP clients in addition to staff of the John Lewis Partnership.

She qualified in 1989 at Suffolk University, Boston USA and worked for a number of years in corporate law. Moving to the UK in 1994, Joy initially practiced on behalf of Bristol City Council. She then worked as a locum to gain experience in a number of different fields and joined Law Express in 2007.

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Karen advises on a wide range of legal matters including family, property, employment, personal injury, wills and probate. And having been with Law Express for over 10 years she greatly enjoys the variety of cases and helping the people that she advises.

Graduating in law from Reading and qualifying as a lawyer in Bristol, she spent a short time in her home town of Portsmouth before returning to Bristol to take up her first professional appointment with Burgess Salmon. Moving to Cartwrights in Bristol (now Bond Pearce), she became a Partner. Karen joined Law Express in 1998 as the company's first employee.

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Laurence specialises in employment, corporate, commercial and Scots law. He typically advises company Directors and employers through Law Express' client the IoD, and employees through our relationships with the CIPS and CIPD.

Laurence qualified in Scots law and was in private practice for over 30 years. He studied at Aberdeen University, and practiced in Edinburgh doing a wide spectrum of legal work.

Latterly he was with the Scottish Executive's Solicitors Office where he focused on leasing and general advice for the Roads Department. He joined Law Express in 2002.

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Rose's specialisms include consumer, employment, family, personal debt, personal injury, wills and probate. She came to Law Express through a desire to give impartial and professional advice with no strings attached. Nothing pleases her more than listening to people in a confidential one-to-one environment and providing straightforward, practical help that is not always to do with the law.

Rose frequently finds herself being the first point of contact for people who don't know their rights, don't know how the law works and often don't know if they need a solicitor or not.

Before joining Law Express she worked in private practice for ten years, where she was primarily concerned with employment law and family law.

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Ruth advises on accounts, finance and tax.

She studied accountancy at the University of Portsmouth and went on to qualify as a chartered tax advisor in May 1991. Since graduating she has worked for KPMG and PwC in corporate tax and personal tax and has a particular interest in tax related to partnerships and inheritance. Ruth joined Law Express in October 2002.

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Sarah's legal experience includes motoring, family, property, consumer, small claims, personal debt, personal injury.

She was called to the bar in 1989 and practiced as a barrister throughout the South West. Within her general practice she specialised in crime and family law. Finding she wanted more involvement with her clients at grass roots level Sarah decided to become a solicitor and passed the qualified lawyers transfer test in 1993. After a brief spell in private practice she set up her own firm dealing in crime, actions against the police, and human rights. She joined Law Express in 2002.

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Sherron specialises in family law, matrimonial law, the Children Act (contact & residence, care proceedings) and co-habiting couples. She typically advises mums, dads and grandparents.

After attending the University of North London and the College of Law, London she qualified in July 1998 and worked in private practice in East and then South London.

Married with two small children Sherron enjoys working for Law Express as it allows her to work from home and still care full time for her family.

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