Partners

Richard James

Richard is a modern commercial lawyer who enjoys helping clients achieve their ambitions. Recommended in both the 2016 and 2017 editions of Legal 500 and with a real depth of experience, particularly in corporate and franchising work, his clients range from well-known brands to young and entrepreneurial businesses, especially within the technology sector who greatly value his advice and insight.

Client feedback acknowledges a can-do attitude providing “timely and professional advice with great attention to detail”, alongside being recognised as a “sharp and expert negotiator”; he adopts an approach that reflects the commercial need to get the deal done, but ensuring all important issues are covered.

Janet Milton

Janet has enjoyed a career spanning a number of disciplines which few solicitors today have the opportunity to experience. After a long career as an in-house solicitor to several national companies, she came to private practice with the advantage of seeing life from the client’s perspective and the determination to build a client-centred firm which remains fundamental to the Solicitors Title ethos today.

Her career has included the protection of the Bradford & Bingley’s iconic bowler hats logo; responsibility for all legal work relating to the Society’s branch network; the development of title insurance in the UK; the recovery of tens of millions of pounds against property professionals in the last recession and extensive experience of drafting consumer credit documentation and commercial contracts.

Nicholas Bevan

Nicholas Bevan is a multiple award-winning solicitor and academic. He was senior counsel at an international law firm, before setting up his own consultancy specialising in public law, European comparative law, insurance law and regulatory compliance. He received a doctorate in law from the University of Exeter in 2017 for his ground breaking research that triggered wide ranging reforms to motor insurance. In 2020 he set a new precedent by executing the first distance will online for a UK national living in Crete.  His independent research led the Justice Secretary to rush through emergency Covid-19 legislation to sanction video witnessing of wills with retrospective effect in September 2020.