Douglas law firm M&P Legal has strengthened its legal ranks by the addition of an experienced lawyer and the granting of a training contract to a young legal entrant into the market.
Ilsa Reeves has joined M&P Legal from another Manx firm after 12 ears in private practice in both England and the Isle of Man five of which were as a partner at a practice in England.
She has built up considerable private client expertise in matters of estate planning, wills, trusts and powers of attorney and will also be working on personal injury and other dispute claims in M&P Legal’s litigation department.
Ms Reeves has particular expertise in dealing with estates having acted as an executor in a number of estates and having administered several will trusts. She has also been appointed as a receiver and is currently advising on a large mental health receivership.
Ms Reeves originally qualified in 2001 as a solicitor in England after training with a niche professional indemnity law firm in London.
Ms Reeves has joined M&P Legal as an associate advocate having re-qualified in the Isle of Man this year.
She joins the M&P Legal dispute resolution team which in the independent legal directory The Legal 500 was recently described as providing an excellent service in dispute resolutions.
Meanwhile, former Ballakermeen High School student Carly Wilson has also joined M&P Legal initially working as a paralegal. Carly graduated with an honours degree from Sheffield University and during her period of paralegal assistance with M&P Legal she impressed with her precision and hard work and was offered articles of clerkship with a view to her being admitted to the Isle of Man bar.
Head of M&P Legal’s litigation department John Aycock commented on these new arrivals:
‘This firm has worked hard to establish a reputation of quality and our recruitment policy adheres to the high standards of excellence we set for ourselves. Ilsa has some high-quality experience in the legal world and Carly has shown all the right attributes to train to become a qualified advocate.
‘We are very pleased to have both of them working at M&P Legal.’
The firm has also refreshed its senior associate structure by promoting two of its senior advocates to the rank of counsel.
Advocates Consuelo Suay and Damian Molyneux are both now at the elevated rank of counsel to reflect their considerable legal expertise and experience.
M&P Legal is an established commercial legal practice recommended in independent legal directories such as The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. It was established 30 years ago and became known as Mann & Partners with a subsequent re-branding to M&P Legal.