Senior associates Carly Philp, Michael Lamb, Eleanor Cockrell, Rhea Munro and Peter Pownall will all become partners in the firm from 1 January 2024.

Eleanor Cockrell and Rhea Munro are members of the firm’s award-winning family law team, which has a higher number of solicitors on the Law Society Children Law accreditation scheme than any law firm in the North West.

Carly Philp leads the firm’s personal injury and clinical negligence team, while Peter Pownall is head of the firm’s residential and commercial property department and Michael Lamb is a senior private client solicitor specialising in wills, trust and probate. Both Eleanor Cockrell and Carly Philp began their careers at Morecrofts as paralegals before becoming trainee solicitors and qualifying within the business.

Morecrofts has created a bespoke management development programme providing a pathway to partnership for its senior team members in the past 12 months. All fee-earning staff are able to choose hybrid working and two of the new partners have developed their careers while working part-time.

This latest series of promotions takes Morecrofts’ partnership, including members and non-members of the LLP, up to 15, led by managing partner Alison Lobb.

She said:

“Our five new partners are all specialists in their chosen fields and each has added so much to the firm and to our clients during their time here. Becoming a partner is the next natural step on their journey and I have no doubt they will continue to grow as both excellent lawyers and leaders of the firm.

“We are proud of the pathways we give to our young lawyers at Morecrofts, so we are understandably delighted to see two former trainees reach partner level. I congratulate all five of our new partners and I am excited to see how they will positively impact our firm in years to come.”

Morecrofts is headquartered in Liverpool city centre and has five further offices across the city region in Woolton, Crosby, Wirral, Prescot and Allerton, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The five new partners will join as non-member partners of the LLP.