An Oswestry solicitor is celebrating 40 years as an equity partner at the same time as the firm he now heads up celebrates its 55^th year.

Richard Lloyd is the current Senior Partner of GHP Legal. His legal career began in 1980 when he accepted a trainee position at a firm of solicitors in Aberystwyth.  In early 1983 he joined AW Brown & Co in Oswestry as an assistant solicitor and two years later became an equity partner with Alan Brown.

Under perfect blue skies the team, entered by Wrexham based law firm GHP Legal, was led by Robert Williams. A partner of the well-known local law firm which was one of the event’s main sponsors, Local Law Society President, Robert, was joined by Mark Evans the incoming national Law Society President and founder of the Legal Runner network.  District Judge Natalie Pritchard, a former partner of the firm, was also there.