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Gamlins News
A team from Gamlins in Rhyl have taken the LawNet Challenge title, completing an 11 mile course with a 3800 foot ascent to the summit of Snowdon, in a blistering 269 minutes and 10 seconds.
The team, comprising Huw Rees, Dafydd Roberts, Ron Davison and Gwyn Pritchard, were almost 100 minutes faster than their nearest rivals.
Taking part on the day were 80 lawyers in 17 teams, all drawn from LawNet member firms across the country.
The all-male winning team from Gamlins were spotted sprinting down from the summit, as they literally ran to victory; unlike their female counterparts from the same firm, who took a wrong turn at an early stage – leading to the usual jokes about women and directions. However humble pie was the order of the day as the ‘Gamlins Girls’ still managed to secure second place in the Challenge, finishing in 361mins 16secs, with third place going to a team from Lincoln firm Andrew & Co, in 402mins.
Each year leading law firm network LawNet arranges a Challenge event for its 70 strong membership of independent firms. Previous events have included the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge and Helvellyn and Striding Edge.
The event is organised by George Coombes, LawNet’s Marketing & Services Manager, who said: “Members enjoy the opportunity to network in a more informal setting and environment, whilst having a bit of competitive fun. It was a close call with the weather after snowfall on Snowdon just a week before and bad rain predicted, but we had a great day.”
He added: “Seeing the winning team descend was reminiscent of a scene from Mission Impossible, all running from the summit and one member channelling Tom Cruise in a pair of big aviator mirrored sunglasses! The winning Gamlins team also completed the mini-orienteering challenge at checkpoint 1, whereas some teams decided to take a 30 minute time penalty and miss this out. They certainly were deserving winners.”
Last year’s winners, Darbys from Oxford, finished sixth in 417mins 39secs and the LawNet head office team a respectable seventh in 418mins 26secs.
Whilst not officially a charity event, Gamlins raised over £200 to be donated to St Kentigern Hospice at St Asaph.
Team list:
Andrew & Co LLP Parrott & Coales LLP
Berry & Berry Oxley & Coward Solicitors LLP
Breeze & Wyles Solicitors LLP Myers Lister Price Solicitors
Darbys Solicitors LLP
Gamlins (3 teams)
Gardner Leader LLP (2 teams)
Gepp & Sons
Lamb Brooks
LawNet
Mullis & Peake LLP (2 teams)
Gamlins joins forces with Knight McGoldrick of Chester
At the beginning of January 2011 Gamlins, Rhyl took over the firm of Knight McGoldrick, in Chester, with both Richard Knight and Suzanne McGoldrick joining the firm as partners.
They will be working out of the Holywell office and offering their expertise as commercial property lawyers will bring a wealth of experience to support existing clients and expand Gamlins’ client base in North East Wales.
Richard, originally from South Wales, lives in Mold with his wife and two young children.
He qualified in 1996 and joined Aaron & Partners in Chester where he worked for four years before moving to join the commercial property team at DWF, Liverpool.
He left DWF in 2003 and joined Perkins in Manchester where he became a partner in 2005, leaving there to set up Knight McGoldrick in 2007.
Richard has considerable expertise in acting for property developers in connection with site acquisitions and subsequent plot sales. He also acts on behalf of a number of lenders in dealing with secured funding work.
His interests include rugby and listening to music.
Suzanne, who lives in Chester with her partner and one year old daughter
She qualified in 2000 after completing her training with Aaron & Partners in Chester. She then moved to the commercial property department of DWF in Liverpool before moving to WDL Solicitors in Tattenhall in 2004.
Suzanne joined Bowcock Cuerden, Nantwich as an Associate solicitor in 2005 before starting Knight McGoldrick in 2007.
She has gained considerable experience in a range of commercial property transactions including sales and purchases of industrial, office and retail sites and landlord and tenant work.
She is a keen sportswoman, an Everton football fan and enjoys listening to music.
Gamlins Holywell Office wins substantial damages for unfair dismissal claimant
Our client was an Area Manager for a large retail company who was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer during the course of employment. The client came to Alex Bailey at Gamlins because they felt the treatment from the company following the diagnosis was unacceptable and the client also had significant issues with the 'bullying' treatment from one particular manager. This led to the client raising a grievance with the company and then making the difficult decision to resign. We acted for the client in a successful claim for both unfair constructive dismissal and disability discrimination. The overall award made in the client's favour was in excess of £100,000 including interest.
Contact: Alex.Bailey@gamlins.co.uk
Telephone: 01352 714822
Gamlins, Denbigh Office is delighted to be shirt sponsor of Denbigh Rugby Club for the 2010 - 2011 season.
The revised playing strip was officially handed over on Saturday 9 October 2010 by Dafydd Roberts, Gamlins solicitor in charge of the Denbigh Office (centre left) who is pictured with Ron Davison, Gamlins Partner (centre) and the venerable Bernard Thomas from Denbigh Rugby Club.
First Class Clothes of Prestatyn supplied the new kit and the Club and Gamlins are grateful for all their work.
More information on Denbigh Rugby Club can be found at http://www.clwbrygbidinbych.org/
