Oglethorpe Sturton & Gillibrand LLP is pleased to announce that it has promoted Commercial Property Associate, Laura Barnfield, to a Partner within the firm. Laura, whose work and clients cover a mixture of acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant work, portfolio management and development work, primarily in the local area, joined the firm just over two years ago.
Laura is local to the Lancaster area and well known in the business community. Laura’s early career was spent in large international law firms based in London and the North West and has now spent over the past ten years working back in the area.
Laura will continue to work with Allan Sumner, David Park and Charlotte Russell and the rest of the Commercial Property team across the offices in delivering high quality and proactive legal advice and services and continuing to develop the practice and the growth of more junior members of staff.
Speaking of this, Laura said: “The firm continues to grow, with even brighter ideas for continued future development, so this is a very exciting time. It is a great place to work and develop – we work hard, nurture one another, take great pride in our work and development of relationships and genuinely care about the success of the local area.”
Oglethorpe Sturton & Gillibrand LLP is a strongly established business in the local area and has offices both on Castle Park in Lancaster and Main Street in Kirkby Lonsdale, employing over 70 members of staff. The practice covers Commercial Property, Agriculture, Corporate & Commercial, Employment, Family, Litigation, Private Client and Residential Property. The past year has seen continued growth across the firm, with, amongst others, new members of the firm’s Family Team, Commercial Property Team, along with the continued recruitment of talented new trainees and paralegals.
