The fantastic work of our team has been successfully recognised in the latest guide to outstanding lawyers and law firms in the UK.

Five Partners are named as Leading Individuals in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500, with a further four lawyers making the list of up and coming Next Generation solicitors. The guide recommends an additional 26 members of the firm for their work in a variety of areas.

Those awarded the elite ranking are Corporate Lead Partner James Sage, Commercial Litigation Senior Partner Guy Birkett, and Craig Ridge who heads the Disputed Probate team, who are based in Wolverhampton.

Partner Niall Blackie, from the Planning department,  and Steven Corfield, Principal Development Partner for Agricultural Business, both from Shropshire, join their colleagues on the list.

Next Generation lawyers named in the guide are Wolverhampton Partner Charlotte Clode for Commercial Litigation and Associate Kimberly Mears from the contentious trusts and probate department. Telford-based Associate Suzanne Tucker is recognised for her work in the planning sector alongside Partner David Preece for his work in the Corporate and Commercial team at the same office.

Four of our departments – commercial litigation, agriculture and estates, contentious trusts and probate, and family – received top tier rankings. We also received recommendations for our work in corporate and commercial, licensing, debt recovery, insolvency and corporate recovery, employment, personal injury,  personal tax, trusts and probate, education, commercial property and planning.

Managing Partner Kim Carr said: “The Legal 500 is an independent guide, and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit.

“To have five Leading Individuals and four Next Generation lawyers featured on the list – as well as so many members of our team being singled out for individual praise – is a particularly pleasing result. It is a truly impartial recognition of the stellar service we deliver across a wide range of sectors.”

All FBC Manby Bowdler lawyers featuring in the 2018 Legal 500 Guide:

Agriculture and estates   Steven Corfield Brian Aikman Sarah Baugh Suzanne Tucker Tom Devey Niall Blackie Craig Ridge	Personal tax, trusts and probate   Andrew Vernon Julie Burn Margaret Rowe Michelle Monnes-Thomas	Contentious trusts and probate   Craig Ridge Kimberly Mears Margaret Rowe Philip Cowell	Insolvency and corporate recovery   Gareth Ruddock James Sage
Corporate and commercial James Sage David Preece Kam Johal Stuart Rea	Commercial property   Andrew Wynne David Grove David Raymont Stephen Burke Charlotte Nutting	Commercial Litigation Guy Birkett Charlotte Clode Gareth Ruddock Brian Aikman	Debt recovery Gareth Ruddock
Family   Philip Cowell Anne Thompson Sara Morton Sarah Millington	Personal injury   Adam Wilson Sophie-Ann Bridges Susan Todhunter Tim Gray	Employment   Julia Fitzsimmons Tracy Worthington	Planning     Niall Blackie Suzanne Tucker
Education David Raymont Stuart Rea