"Let me introduce you to the team at BHP Law. Between us, we have years of experience in helping individuals and businesses with their legal issues. We pride ourselves on making the law easy to understand for our clients and always being at the end of the phone when needed. We are happy to meet you at whichever office is convenient to you so you don’t have to travel miles to access the high quality legal services that you may need.
We’re here to help you, so please feel free to contact us directly. If you’re not sure who would deal with your matter, then please give us a call or get in touch here on our website."
John Pratt, Managing Partner
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Partner
Amanda has worked in the North Eastern Circuit since qualifying as a solicitor. She trained and worked with two law firms in Darlington before moving…
Solicitor
Jo qualified in 2008 specialising in family law whilst maintaining a broad skill base in mental health law, residential conveyancing, wills and lasting…
Partner
Helen qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and at that time joined Walton Hardy & Clough in Darlington as a member of their Wills, Trusts & Probate team.…
Partner
Senior partner Peter Blackett has practised for over 40 years in Durham & North Yorkshire and has been involved in many significant commercial and agricultural…
Solicitor
Catherine trained at Wragge & Co (now Gowling) and went on to practise as a commercial property solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds. She works…
Conveyancing Executive
Dorothy has worked for BHP Law since 1987 initially as secretary for Norman Hart (now retired partner) and training as a fee earner in residential conveyancing…
Consultant Solicitor
Gary has some 35 years advising on many high value share sales/acquisitions transactions for various businesses across the North East and internationally…
Paralegal
Susan started working at BHP Law in 1996 as a secretary in the conveyancing department. Over the years she has gained valuable knowledge in conveyancing…
Solicitor
Emily trained with the Co-op Legal Services in London and Manchester where she worked in the family and probate departments and qualified into family…
Solicitor
Helen joined BHP Law in 2014. On qualifying she moved to Irwin Mitchell to work within their Clinical Negligence team where she gained a lot of experience…
Team Leader/Conveyancing Executive
Jemma is our Residential Conveyancing team leader based at our Darlington office with over 14 years experience. She joined BHP Law in 2010 and during…
Solicitor
Jane trained at Atkinson Ritson Solicitors in her hometown of Carlisle, moving to Winskell & Winskell solicitors in Newcastle upon qualification to specialise…
Trainee Solicitor
Josh started his legal career at a UK top-20 firm based in Newcastle working in the Property Litigation department and specialising in leasehold disputes…
Solicitor
Trevor qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and has worked exclusively in family law matters since 2008. Originally from Watford in Hertfordshire, Trevor…
Partner
Andrea took her law degree at Northumbria University and went on to study for the solicitors exams at Chester Law School. Andrea joined Harvey &…
Associate
Holly graduated from Keele University in 2005 with an LLB in Law with English and completed her LLM Master of Laws at Durham University in 2006. Holly…
Paralegal
Nicola joined BHP Law as a conveyancing secretary in 2015. Following two years working as a conveyancing secretary at another local firm, she has now…
Solicitor
Lauren obtained her law degree from the University of Cumbria, graduating in 2012 and started her LPC at Northumbria University, graduating the following…
Trainee Solicitor
Simone joined BHP Law in June 2016 during the course of her MLaw Exempting degree at Northumbria University. In the first semester of her final year,…
Trainee Solicitor
Leena graduated from Teesside University in 2016 with an LLB Hons, at which point she started working part time in BHP Law as a secretary in the commercial…
Trainee Legal Executive
Sara completed her Law degree in July 2016 at Teesside University and began working in a local firm doing residential conveyancing. She completed her…
Trainee Legal Executive
Ruby began working at BHP Law in 2017 as an admin assistant in residential conveyancing. She quickly became fascinated by the legal profession and knew…
Legal Executive
Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Legal Executive and has over 35 years experience in dealing with Probate matters. Peter joined BHP Law…
Partner
Ruth is a former member of the Bar Council before cross qualifying as a solicitor. She joined BHP Law in March 2014 as an associate and was made head…
Associate
Following university Phil was employed by Dawn Advice as a legal advisor. Dawn is a charitable organisation based near Cramlington that provided detailed…
Paralegal
Hannah has worked within Wills, Trust & Probate for 6 years, running her own case load of files that varied greatly in nature. In 2017, Hannah qualified…
Solicitor
Law is Melanie’s second career, but over the last 18 years she has gained valuable experience working within the areas of construction, finance and…
Solicitor
Holly began her legal career as a paralegal in BHP Law’s Family team. She completed her first training seat in the Personal Injury team managing road…
Lettings Manager
Managing Partner
John is Managing Partner of BHP Law and as such has been responsible for overseeing the growth and development of the firm since the early 1990's. He…
Partner
Karen Stephanie Pratt is an equity partner and is head of the Court of Protection Department and joint head of our Wills, Trusts and Probate team alongside…
Corporate Executive
Karolyn has worked for over 18 years in BHP Law’s business and commercial law team where she has assisted on advising on high value share sales/acquisitions…
Solicitor
Liz trained in a general legal practice in Gateshead before qualifying as a solicitor when she moved to a law firm in Hartlepool doing a mixture of commercial…
Associate
Sapna worked as a mental health paralegal for Thaliwal Bridge solicitors, in Leicester. She obtained a LSC funded training contract, then worked for…
Solicitor
Caroline trained at Hunt Kidd Solicitors, following which she spent two years working in Ward Hadaway’s commercial property team from 2004 to 2006.…
Legal Executive
Laura has worked in the legal profession for 20 years. She completed her training at J W Mitchell Dodds & Co and remained at that firm when it merged…
Trainee Legal Executive
Leanne made the change from the procurement sector to law, having completed her part-time Open University law degree with upper second class honours in…
Partner
Stephen Williams is the head of the Court of Protection health and welfare department and specialises in community care, health and welfare and mental…
Solicitor
Anthony has worked at Browell Smith & Co and trained and worked at Thompsons Solicitors between 2003 and 2016. He joined BHP Law’s Employment team…
Partner
After an initial career in merchant banking, Dermot subsequently took articles at a corporate boutique in Manchester (Turner Parkinson), after which followed…
Consultant Solicitor
Ken started his legal career at Latimer Hinks where he qualified as a legal executive specialising in litigation. He went on to qualify as a solicitor…
Paralegal
Emma qualified as a paralegal and completed her police station accreditation before joining BHP Law’s Court of Protection team.…
Litigation Executive
Rosie began her legal career at Darling & Stephensons Solicitors in 2004, assisting with residential conveyancing cases and then running her own caseload…
Trainee Legal Executive
Lisa began her legal career with BHP Law in November 2003 when she joined the personal injury department in a secretarial/support role to assist three…
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