Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP — England

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Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors LLP (Part of Lawfront) is a full-service firm offering legal services across multiple practice areas for both individuals and businesses. FJG has solicitors who specialise in niche areas of law such as equity release, charity law and landlord and tenant. ### The firm Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors (FJG) is the Essex law firm with deep-rooted ethical values and cast-iron integrity, committed to providing expert legal advice and exceptional client service. FJG’s ethos is to work hard every day to make FJG the preferred choice for anyone requiring legal advice from a law firm with a conscience. Respected by clients and peers alike, FJG are committed to giving back to the locality in which we work, truly wanting to make a difference for you, your business and our shared communities. Together, our employees are driven by a desire to build a law firm for future generations where clients continue to receive outstanding legal advice from a firm with strong ethics and approachable staff. We also pride ourselves on being a vibrant, innovative and tech nimble firm, embracing new ways of working to enhance our clients’ entire experience of legal services. However, you can rest assured that with more than 40 years’ experience, FJG remains current in our thoughts and actions but a trusted, established firm. You can trust FJG’s 150 legal experts and support staff to be authoritatively reassuring, plain speaking and knowledgeable finding efficient and practical ways to help across a wide range of areas. ### Types of work undertaken Charities: the firm’s lawyers have worked with the Charity Commission on behalf of clients and with the Charity Commission’s policy unit. It is also a member of the Charity Law Association, an organisation at the cutting edge of influencing charity law and policy. Commercial Property: the team has significant scope and experience in dealing with all aspects of commercial real estate; from complex negotiations, right through to completion of all aspects of property-related transactional work. The firm offers a wide range of landlord and tenant services ranging from commercial leasehold rent arrears recovery to residential landlord and tenant. Conveyancing: the team of solicitors and conveyancers offers a wealth of experience in handling house sales, purchases, leases and land transactions, dealing with around 6,000 transactions each year. Corporate and Commercial: the firm offers straightforward and commercially relevant advice and builds long-lasting relationships with clients, tailoring advice to support commercial strategies. Civil Litigation: the team acts for a wide variety of clients in a cross-section of cases. It focuses on providing clients with the best service with an efficient, innovative and a proactive approach, allowing it to help clients achieve their desired outcomes with the minimum of costs. Within this, the firm’s employment lawyers can guide both businesses and individuals through the complexities of employment law regulations and help to avoid expensive and time-consuming disputes with their flexible approach to resolving employment matters. The firm also provides a fearlessly independent and professional service to ensure that clients receive the maximum possible award for any injuries suffered. It offers independent and impartial advice and can act on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis. Family: the firm offers a professional and sensitive service. It has Resolution-accredited specialists in financial remedies, children matters and domestic abuse and specialist members of The Law Society’s Children Panel. Immigration: the immigration team has many years of experience assisting clients to negotiate the maze that surrounds immigration applications, dealing with the home office and court procedures. Wills, Life Planning and Probate: the professional and qualified team, with members of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Equity Release Council; offer a complete wills and probate service. This includes the preparation of Wills, inheritance tax planning, preparation and registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney, administration of estates, Court of Protection applications, equity release, long term care planning and trusts. ### Practice areas - Charities - Commercial Property - Conveyancing - Corporate and Commercial - Civil Litigation - Family - Immigration - Wills, Life Planning and Probate ### Languages - English - Afrikaans - Hindi - Punjabi ### Staffing Figures - 21 Number of UK partners - 21 Number of other UK fee-earners

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Ashlee Campbell

Ashlee is Head of Immigration and Partner with many years’ experience in all aspects of Immigration law. Her experience includes Corporate Immigration acting for employers and education providers. She also has widespread experience in dealing with appeals before the First Tier and Upper Tier Immigration Tribunals, Judicial Reviews, Court of Appeal applications and European Court of Human Rights applications. Ashlee often deals with complex immigration matters for clients which include advice on the Points Based system, family applications, spouse/unmarried partner/civil partner visa applications, dependent relative visa applications, British citizenship, Asylum and Human Rights applications. When representing asylum clients she practices mainly with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, domestic abuse cases/ trafficking cases and accepts referrals from various Local Authorities. · Immigration

Ashton Carter

Ashton is Head of the Corporate and Commercial Department and Partner at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP. Ashton is particularly interested in corporate, commercial, company and partnership work, including specialising in corporate transactions involving both share and assets sales/purchases, mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, corporate reorganisations and restructures. Ashton also has a passion for working with charities and undertakes a considerable amount of charity work as well as providing independent legal advice in relation to business finance arrangements, mortgages and guarantees. · Corporate / M&A

Charlotte Knappett

Charlotte Knappett is Head of Family and Partner specialising in many areas including divorce, finances arising from divorce, private law children matters, child abduction, special guardianship, domestic abuse and fertility law. Charlotte has also conducted International Child Abduction cases, representing clients in the Royal Courts of Justice. · Family

Keeley Miller

Keeley is Head of Commercial Property and Partner and has a broad range of expertise including but not limited to: sale and purchase of a business, corporate and private finance advice, acquisition of commercial premises for own use, investment, or development, legal site set up, overage provisions for development land, complex or high-value residential purchases, sale of freehold reversions to ground rent investor, advising landlords and tenants and contracts for commercial property or leases. · Real Estate

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Rachel Earnshaw

Rachel is a Partner, Solicitor and Law Society Accredited Representative in childcare proceedings. She has 18 years’ experience of representing parents and children in public law proceedings against a local authority and has been accredited since 2008. She has also practiced in matrimonial law, cohabitation, and private law children. · Family

Rhian Lowe

Rhian is Head of our Civil Litigation Team and Partner specialising in all aspects of medical negligence and personal injury including accidents at work, road traffic accidents, public liability claims, fatal accidents, misdiagnosis, delayed treatment cases and chronic pain cases. · Civil Litigation

Tony Fisher

Tony Fisher is the Executive Chair of the firm. He has over 40 years’ experience in private legal practice. He has an MBA in Legal Practice and is a member of various trade and business organisations. Tony is also a CEDR accredited mediator. · Corporate / M&A