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.

Kerri Williams, who works in the Family department at GHP Legal in Oswestry, came ninth overall out of 128 runners who took part in the 10k race at the Brynkinalt Running Festival which was organised by Adrenalin Sporting Events. GHP Legal were one of the event’s sponsors.

GHP Legal, which has offices in Wrexham, Oswestry and Llangollen and is one of the largest independent law firms in the region, has announced the appointment of Lucy Spilsbury.

GHP Legal, regular sponsors of Adrenaline Sporting Events and long-time supporters of Nightingale House Hospice, has announced four members of its Oswestry team signed up for the Brynkinalt and Welshpool 10k runs on 15^th/16^th and 23^rd March, while more than thirty staff will run in the Alyn Waters event for Nightingale House on 5^th April.

GHP Legal, one of the leading law firms in North Wales and Shropshire, has announced the qualification of another solicitor from its training programme.

Thomas Casling qualified as a solicitor on 17^th February following the successful completion of a two-year training contract with the firm.

Training has taken on a whole new meaning for one of the region’s leading law firms after several members of staff announced they were in training for a variety of upcoming sporting events.

A young woman who was brought up in Oswestry and educated at Moreton Hall School, where she received the Principal’s Award, has qualified as an accomplished commercial lawyer with GHP legal, one of the region’s largest and longest standing independent law firms.

Litigation Executive, Rob Jones, has been a key member of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team at GHP Legal since the firm, formerly known as Gwilym Hughes & Partners,  merged with Brown & Lloyd in 2000.

A member of staff at Wrexham’s leading law firm, GHP Legal, has joined the throng of people across the UK who are running to raise funds in aid of Motor Neurone Disease.

Ant Watkin, who works in the Debt Recovery department at GHP Legal’s head office in Grosvenor Road, Wrexham, is now almost halfway through a planned month-long challenge that will see him run a total of 60 miles by the end of August.