Mental Health Law Firm Expands Nationally in UK

LawFuel.com – Best Law Firm Marketing Newswire – Due to recent expansion and a vast array of changes that have been taking place, John Blavo wishes to share some of the exciting progressions and prospects for the firm:

Initially in the founding years, Blavo & Co based itself in London and specialised in Crime and Mental Health & Public Law. These two departments have expanded rapidly.
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The firm celebrated a milestone of 15 successful years which has seen us gain the largest number of criminal duty solicitors in the UK. Not only this, but our firm is now the largest Mental Health Law practice in the UK. Not only have we achieved success within these two core specialties, the last year saw the doubling in size of both our Family Law and Housing Law department. Through-out our 15 years of experience, Blavo & Co has branched out rapidly across a broad spectrum of law practice, notably including: Family, Children, Immigration, Housing, Welfare, Benefits & Debt, Employment, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law, Wills and Probate, Commercial property, and Commercial & Business law.

The firm has also recently received increasing attention for its expertise in areas of Sports Law through some of my frequent media appearances. This includes not only a regular column in the Independent, features in Vox Africa & European Championship magazine but also various live guest show appearances on Sports Café, BBC radio, Talksport & CNN.

Also, as the largest Mental Health Law practice in the UK, we have chosen to also work closely with mental health charity MIND in Enfield and finally, Great Ormond Street Hospital & BASCO orphanage in Ghana. The 15th Annual Blavo & Co ball, which was held in December 2012, fundraised over £16,000 which was split equally between the three charities.

We are very grateful as a firm to have managed to keep working through the economic crisis, and continue to expand to a national & international level. The firm has increased from seven offices across London, Herts and Surrey, to sixteen offices across England and Wales. With these ventures, have come the constant search and recruitment of quality Solicitors, Trainees, Managers and Support staff. The high quality of the staff that are part of each individual Blavo team, have been integral to our success and commitment to excellence. These new additions are one of many changes within the business that are lighting the way to an exciting future.

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Mid-Level Associates Happier than Ever – Except the Ladies

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happy-unhappyThe American Lawyer midlevel associate survey saw those associates at third-to-five years giving their firms the best composite scores the survey has seen in a decade.  But the women are less than happy.

While law jobs have declined and the profession has seen major challenges in the wake of the GFC, those who have retained their jobs have been happy to do so and happier still to be receiving bonuses. As some firms have crumbled or at least shrunk, they have survived and, mostly, prospered.
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However the survey indicated that gender differences showed women are considerably less happy with their jobs than men.

The survey shows that there has been a rebound for the profession, where the associates were asked to grade firms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being highest. The average composite score from the 134 firms surveyed showed a jump from the 211 average of 3.7 right up to the heady heights of 4.04.

The morale score was stable at 3.4, slightly up on the previous year and way up over the 2.6 during the “dark days of 2009”.

But for the women there remains uncertainty as to how they fit into the big law picture and over one-third did not know what they would be doing in five years time.

The men, the survey found, gave higher scores in just about every category and also expressed a higher desire to become partner, compared to women who were uncertain about partnership, let alone their future.

See the results here.

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