Liverpool law firm Hill Dickinson announces the promotion of nine legal directors to partner across a number of practice areas

Liverpool law firm Hill Dickinson has created nine new partners, promoting people from legal directors across its business services and health business groups.

These new partners span the firm’s Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds offices, with the business services group making three legal directors partners, and the healthcare group promoting six to partner level.

As a result, in the past two years the firm has progressed 22 people to partner through its internal promotion processes across all three of its business groups and a range of its locations. The full list of promotions for 2024 is:

• Katie Austin – private client, Liverpool
• Joe Orme-Paul – employment and education, Liverpool
• Tim Unwin – property, Liverpool
• Ruth Griffiths – health primary care, Leeds
• Joanna Crichton – healthcare and public law, Liverpool
• Rebecca Sharrock – healthcare and public law, Manchester
• Sion Davies – healthcare and public law, Manchester
• Richard Parker – health commercial, Manchester
• Rizvan Rasul – costs health, Liverpool (promoted to partner equivalent)

Nearly half of the partner promotions are women. In May this year, Hill Dickinson promoted 10 women out of 16 senior associates to legal director.

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Craig Scott, chief executive at Hill Dickinson, said: “seeing our talented colleagues develop their careers and ascending through the legal ranks here at Hill Dickinson is one of the most rewarding aspects of my role.

“To reach the status of partner is a fantastic achievement. This year we have seen impressive profitable growth in all areas of our business and these latest promotions are further evidence that we are committed, as a firm, to investing in the development of our people.”