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KingsLegal strengthens top management team

Welsh based specialist litigation and commercial law practice KingsLegal has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of three partners and one associate.

Matthew Hirst takes up the post of partner and head of commercial litigation. He joins after 15 years as partner at DLA Piper where he specialised in professional negligence and commercial insurance disputes.

Richard Grayson joins the team as partner with expertise in personal injury, in particular employer liability claims.

He was previously employed as partner for Thompsons and brings 15 years experience to the role.

Richard has considerable experience in a wide range of industrial diseases and leads the disease team at KingsLegal. He is also a member of the personal injury panel at the firm.

Andrew Baker has been appointed partner with responsibility for catastrophic injury and insurance fraud claims. Andrew has 10 years experience working in insurance litigation at Eversheds and is also a lecturer on civil litigation at Cardiff University in his spare time.

Ellena Talbot joins KingsLegal as an associate and fast track team’s manager. She joins from Hugh James where she specialised in defendant personal injury and quality and performance management.

These latest appointments take the number of partners at the firm to eight and associates to four.

Richard Crane, managing partner at KingsLegal, said: “These are important appointments to us as we continue to grow the business and look to build on our reputation as one of the UK’s leading defendant personal injury practice.”

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