Written By Jack J Collins, Editor, AllAboutLaw.co.uk

New offshoot gunnerbloom – a young lawyer nursery?

Written By Jack J Collins, Editor, AllAboutLaw.co.uk

Manchester legal practice gunnercooke has established a nursery practice to allow their young lawyers to get a practical education in the sector. The practice will be staffed by young layers who will be given full responsibility for generating clients and running the business.

As such, the lawyers who work for the practice need to be business-savvy entrepreneurs as well as being aspiring legal students, as they will need to complete transactions in both a legal and a financial sense.

Darryl Cooke, founder of challenger law firm gunnercooke, and conceptual creator of the gunnerbloom idea, explains: “gunnerbloom was created to meet the needs of today’s ever-changing social and legal landscape, creating lawyers who are not only legally trained, but who are fully-rounded businesspeople, shaping the future of modern legal services.”

The new firm will be based in the Rise Escalator in Manchester, where a variety of entrepreneurial enterprises reside. Furthermore, gunnerbloom will be aimed at high-growth businesses, where they will be looking to build relationships as long-term legal advisors rather than acting in a time of crisis.

As such, they will be attempting to offer reasonably priced legal services to assist these companies in their long-game growth and development in both a business and legal sense.

Learning on the job will be a great aid to progress, gunnercooke is hoping, allowing young lawyers to gain real world experience and responsibility at the same time as receiving ongoing training and support from mentors in the parent firm.

Furthermore, gunnerbloom lawyers will not be specialising for the first three years of their training, allowing them to gain the widest possible variety of commercial practice. Secondment opportunities will be available too, within affiliated businesses, to further develop commercial skills, and in their third year, students will be encouraged to set up their own businesses.

Anna Beaumont, CEO of gunnercooke, said: “We have always felt that junior lawyers would become better rounded advisors if their training focused more on the development of commercial and business skills. We’ve very excited about the prospect of building this model in gunnerbloom; creating the next generation of lawyers through tailored training and education, whilst helping them to understand the implications of their advice in a commercial context.”

The first gunnerbloom lawyers, pictured above with Anna Beaumont, have been named as Ryan Brown and Sarah Bennett.

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