Partner promotions at HCC Solicitors in Manchester

31st Aug 2022

Emma and Leanne have been promoted at HCC Solicitors

Emma Richards and Leanne Thomson have been promoted to partners at the Manchester office of HCC Solicitors.

Emma Richards specialises in claimant clinical negligence and joined the firm in early 2016 to head up the Clinical Negligence Department. During the past 20 years she has acquired extensive litigation experience, building up long standing relationships with barristers and expert witnesses.

Leanne Thomson is a solicitor who specialises in defendant law and advises leading insurance companies on high value and complex claims in the UK and abroad.

Martin James, Chief Operating Officer of HCC Solicitors, said:

“We are pleased to promote Emma and Leanne as partners in our Manchester office. Both are consummate professionals and experts in their fields of law. We are looking forward to growing and developing our clinical negligence team with Emma playing a key leadership role.

“Leanne is an outstanding defendant lawyer and we are pleased to promote her to this senior position as she continues to develop that area of the practice alongside her experienced colleagues.”

HCC Solicitors is pleased to be an award-winning serious injury law firm headquartered in Manchester with additional offices in Birmingham and London.

We employ approximately 200 people and we have formed formal partnerships in 2022 with major national charities including Brake, Roadpeace and the Matt Hampson Foundation who support people have sustained catastrophic injuries. We are also proud members of the Major Trauma Group, a network of serious injury lawyers.