Avocats – England

Joanna Scally

Partner, Employment, Head of Education

Greenwoods

Joanna Scamman

Senior Associate Solicitor | Commercial Team Joanna deals with all aspects of non-contentious commercial property work and have particular expertise in landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions and disposals, and asset management in the industrial, office, retail and investment sectors. She trained and practised at two international law firms before moving to work locally in 2017 and is used to dealing with a wide range of businesses from individuals and SMEs to national and international leaders. Her experience has given her first-rate legal knowledge, a strong commercial outlook and down-to-earth communication skills – she loves bringing these to her work at SA Law, where she enjoys getting to know her clients and working alongside them to meet their objectives.

SA Law LLP

Joanna Smith

Joanna is an experienced pensions lawyer, advising employer and trustee clients in a variety of sectors on all aspects of pensions law. She supports a number of Sackers’ trustee clients on the full range of “business as usual” issues, such as complex questions on pensions tax, member benefit questions, compliance with new legislation and drafting scheme documentation. Her recent project work has included advice on managing employer debts, liability management exercises and benefit design changes. She has undertaken a key role on significant projects, such as advising in relation to the restructuring of the Halcrow Pension Scheme and supporting another large pension scheme in its negotiations to resolve a dispute with the scheme’s employer. Joanna has a particular interest in pension scheme governance and sits on the firm’s Governance group. She is also a member of the firm’s GMP equalisation working group. Joanna also sits on the Society of Pension Professionals’ Legislation Committee.

Sacker & Partners LLP

Joanna Sowerby

Legal Director

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Joanna Sutton

Principal Associate

Nockolds Solicitors

Joanna Themistokli

Joanna deals with all non-contentious aspects of residential leasehold law. This includes residential conveyancing, landlord and tenant matters, lease extensions, individual and collective enfranchisement, freehold reversion sales and purchases, rights of first refusal, property finance and secured lending. Her clients include institutional landlords, lenders, individual tenants, collectives, and property development companies.

Irwin Mitchell

Joanna Trewin

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Joanna-Louise Hector

Joanna is a principal associate, with over 9 years' experience in defending personal injury claims for insurance companies, commercial businesses, local authorities and the NHSLA. Joanna specialises in all types of multi track and high value industrial disease litigation, with a particular interest in hand arm vibration syndrome, work related upper limb disorders and asbestos related conditions. She is part of our Midlands disease team, based in our Leicester office. Joanna has previously spent time working in-house for a major international insurer. Joanna is a regular speaker and provides training in various issues surrounding industrial disease claims both externally and as part of in-house sessions. Joanna produces and edits our monthly Disease-i publication as well as regularly writing stand alone articles.

Weightmans LLP

Joanne Attwood

Heads up Burges Salmon's Licensing practice. Advises clients on all issues arising under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 as well as a number of other licensing regimes including applications, variations, reviews, contractual drafting and general regulatory compliance issues. Also advises clients on the commercial aspects of event organisation. Clients come from a variety of industry sectors including leisure and tourism, charities, education, transport, retail and real estate development as well as smaller independent operators and private individuals. Work highlights include advising on licensing issues for a globally recognised event, advising on the management of a multi-million pound licensed property portfolio and advising on licensing issues connected with a major group company restructure.

Burges Salmon LLP

Joanne Bone

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Joanne Boyle

Joanne is an employment lawyer specialising in providing practical strategic advice and dealing with complex employment tribunal litigation including unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing on behalf of large multisite clients. She also has a range of commercial experience, including transactional, strategic and day-to-day human resources support and has developed a niche for delivering management development training programmes in an innovative way. She advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters including advising employers on issues such as complex organisational restructures, enforcement of restrictive covenants in the High Court, corporate support for all aspects of acquisitions and disposals including the effect of TUPE and regularly provides practical advice on redundancy programmes – always taking into account a client’s commercial considerations. Joanne also specialises in providing employment law support in the restructuring and insolvency sphere, working seamlessly with the wider team. Joanne is regularly called upon by a number of clients considering change management programmes including business reorganisations and bringing about cultural change. Joanne has delivered a number of cultural change programmes, including some around diversity and inclusion, to assist companies to get the best out of their talent and build a more sustainable workforce.

Foot Anstey

Joanne Brine

Partner and head of the Travel Litigation Team

JMW Solicitors LLP

Joanne Clarke

Joanne Clarke is a partner who focuses on international construction and engineering disputes. She has particular expertise in complex international arbitration and FIDIC contracts. Jo has over 25 years of experience as a contentious construction and engineering lawyer. She has worked on disputes spanning a broad range of international projects such as power and energy (including hydro and wind), civil engineering (including road, rail, tunnels and dams), mechanical and electrical engineering, process plant, complex buildings and infrastructure, and hotel development. She has acted for employers, developers, lenders, contractors, subcontractors, construction professionals and insurers across different jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Jo has particular experience of and expertise in the FIDIC forms of contract and often advises clients on issues and disputes arising out of contracts based on the FIDIC conditions. She is co-author of the book 'FIDIC 2017 – A Practical Legal Guide'. Jo's primary focus is international arbitration but she also provides advice before formal proceedings are commenced and acts for clients involved in other forms of dispute resolution, including dispute boards and mediation. She holds an LLB, LLM and a Diploma in International Arbitration and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. A French speaker, she has also worked in Paris and Brussels.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Joanne Easterbrook

Bevan Brittan LLP

Joanne Edwards

Partner and Head of Family

Forsters LLP

Joanne Fraser

Specialises in Court of Protection matters, often dealing with the family or legal advisors of the client who has lost the mental capacity to manage their property and affairs. Joanne’s clients have often but not always been awarded a substantial personal injury compensation award, and she then assists in the management of those damages in the best interests of the client. Joanne’s work involves dealing with deputyship applications, offering a professional deputyship service, and applications including gifts and statutory wills. She also deals with lasting power of attorneys, personal injury trusts and trusts for infants. Joanne is a specialist in litigation support services and expert witness statements.

Irwin Mitchell

Joanne Gaston

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Joanne Gibbs

Jo is a partner in the Intellectual Property group and is a specialist in resolving trade mark, passing off, copyright and design right disputes. “I advise clients whenever they experience conflicts with their trade mark, passing off, copyright or design rights. I also advise on registrability and clearance issues. The clients I advise are drawn from a wide variety of industry sectors, from high-end fashion brands, to pharmaceutical companies and video game studios. I draw on my experience of having acted before the High Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, UKIPO and EUIPO, and in appeals to the General Court and the Court of Justice, to advise on the appropriate forum and procedure for the resolution of disputes. I also have experience of alternative dispute resolution, particularly mediation.” Jo obtained The Oxford University Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice in 2015. Jo has been recognised as a ‘rising star’ by Legal 500 and MIP, and in 2017 won the AIPPI UK prize for her work in relation to bad faith trade marks. Jo is a member of INTA’s Designs Committee, has contributed to the INTA Cancellation Guide for the EU and co-authors, together with Sara Ashby and Michael Browne, the UK chapter of ‘Design Rights: Functionality and Scope of Protection’.

Wiggin LLP

Joanne Jefferies

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Joanne McGuiness

Joanne has considerable experience in advising on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions and the property aspects of corporate based matters. Her practice encompasses development work in the Rail, Industrial, Retail and Leisure sectors as well the large scale portfolio management, disposals and acquisitions in the retail, leisure and corporate occupier sectors and complex strategic acquisitions. Joanne acts for a number of well know developers, retailers, insurers, manufactures and corporate occupiers. Joanne heads up the Real Estate Team in the Solent office.

Shoosmiths LLP

Joanne McIvor

Joanne specialises in all aspects of real estate but with particular focus on development work (mixed-use projects), structured property investments, commercial leasing, large scale acquisitions and disposal of commercial and retail sites. She also has a deep understanding of the Property Finance market. Her approach is typified by working hard to understand her clients’ business, adding value with strategic thinking and delivering first class advice. Jo is dual qualified - England & Wales and Scotland

Edwin Coe LLP

Joanne Mulvenna

Senor Associate, Joanne, specialises in personal injury, defendant litigation, employers liability, public liability and has a wide range of experience working with insurers.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Joanne O\'Donnell

Solicitor - Family

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Joanne Pruden

Joanne is a Partner specialising in Defendant litigation and dispute resolution, and heads up the Technical Claims and Social Care Team in Exeter. Joanne has advised the NHS on claims under the Liabilities for Third Party Scheme since 2006 and has been Nominated Partner for our Exeter office since June 2016. Her responsibilities include supervising the team in the Exeter office, on the whole spectrum of complexity and value of civil litigation matters and providing delegated authority instructions where appropriate. She is the point of contact for NHS Resolution and NHS Trusts and drives forward a high quality professional service, providing good value and delivery on client objectives. Joanne's client base includes a range of insurers, local authorities and NHS trusts. Her practice covers the full breadth of complex and high value Civil Liability claims and she has particular expertise in local authority work and claims against public bodies having previously worked in-house for a unitary authority.

Browne Jacobson LLP