Our People

Lubna Laheria
Associate
Lubna Laheria
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Lubna is an experienced employment solicitor who advises a wide range of businesses on their HR issues. Lubna also specialises in tribunal litigation.
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My Recent Articles
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Supreme Court Ruling on Definition of “a Woman” – What Does it Mean for Employers?
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Guide For Employers – How to Support Your Muslim Employees During Ramadan
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Employment Rights Bill | Casual and Seasonal Staff – What will the Proposals Mean for Employers?
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Matthew Jones
Associate
Matthew Jones
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Matthew represents a mixture of institutional and nationally known land owners as well as commercial occupiers in portfolio management and investment instructions.

Melinda Rice
Associate
Melinda Rice
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Melinda assists clients with Trust and Estate administration as well as Powers of Attorney and Estate Planning, including Wills. She takes a friendly and supportive approach when discussing matters than can not just be complex but also emotional for her clients.

Paul McMaster
Associate
Paul McMaster
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Paul uses his technical expertise to come up with bespoke solutions on all aspects of private client law.
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My Recent Articles
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Last Words That Matter: What to Include in Your Will
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Rob Norris
Associate
Rob Norris
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Rob is a family law solicitor specialising in both financial remedy and children matters. Rob has experience of high-net worth divorces, pre-nuptial agreements, children contact and residence disputes, applications for leave to remove a child within and out of the jurisdiction, child abduction and protective injunctions.

Selica Khan
Associate
Selica Khan is an experienced Associate Solicitor with significant expertise in complex land disputes, including restrictive covenants, easements, and boundary issues. She acts for commercial developers and landowners, offering strategic guidance and effective solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Sundeep Bilkhu
Associate
Sundeep Bilkhu
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Sundeep is an Associate Solicitor, with a significant number of years experience in dealing with a whole range of property related disputed, with high degree of complexity and value. He has a particular expertise in actions involving the discharge of restrictive covenants, enforcement of easements, interpretation of property related contracts and forfeiture actions. He acts for a wide range of clients including high value land owners, consortiums, landlords and tenants.
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My Recent Articles
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Tenant Terminates Lease for Landlord Breach
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Tamsin Walker
Associate
Tamsin Walker
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Tamsin is an experienced solicitor in our Trusts and Estate Disputes team, based in our Birmingham office in the West Midlands. She advises clients across the UK, offering national coverage with a personal touch.
Tamsin specialises in Contentious Trusts and Probate, with particular expertise in disputes involving wills, estates, and trusts. She regularly represents private individuals, trustees, and charities, providing clear, strategic, and practical legal advice tailored to each client’s unique circumstances.
Renowned for her approachable manner and in-depth knowledge, Tamsin helps clients navigate some of the most complex and sensitive issues in trust and estate litigation.

Tom Riley
Associate
Tom Riley
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Tom is a solicitor with over five years of restructuring and insolvency experience, who advises clients on a wide variety of non-contentious and contentious matters, including:
– Insolvency Litigation – bringing or defending high-value complex claims from insolvency practitioners (Trustees in Bankruptcy/Liquidators/Administrators) or litigation funders.
– Turnaround, restructuring, and recovery of distressed businesses.
– Director disqualification – advising directors subject to investigations/proceedings brought by the Insolvency Service.

Victoria Kirkpatrick
Associate
Victoria Kirkpatrick
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Victoria is an Associate in the Commercial Litigation team and works closely with each of the Partners in both running cases and supporting client relationships.

Amy Richardson
Solicitor
Amy Richardson
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Amy is a Solicitor within the firm’s Employment Team specialising in advising education clients including schools, academies, higher education institutions and universities.

Chloe Fellowes
Solicitor
Chloe Fellowes
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Chloe Fellowes is a proactive Paralegal with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry.
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My Recent Articles
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Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd v Simply Construct (UK) Llp
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Ellen Abrahall
Solicitor
Ellen Abrahall
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Ellen is a Solicitor in the Employment team, assisting with a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.

Junaid Hussain
Trainee Solicitor
Junaid Hussain
Trainee Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Paralegal – Private Client

Sophie Plant
Solicitor
As a solicitor in our core Education team, Sophie helps our further and higher education clients on a wide variety of student-related and corporate governance matters including complaints and appeals, discrimination and equality law issues, policies and procedures and regulatory compliance.

Zoe Carney
Solicitor

Anne Tromans
Consultant
Anne Tromans
Consultant
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Anne has over 30 years’ experience in protecting clients’ wealth through wills and trust structures. She will always go the extra mile to ensure they and their family’s objectives are achieved as tax efficiently as possible.

Clare Seel
Senior Paralegal
Clare Seel
Senior Paralegal
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Clare is responsible for the infrastructure aspect of schemes looked after by our development team.

Clive Read
Consultant
Clive Read
Consultant
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Clive has been advising universities and colleges on the management and development of their campuses for 30 years.

Emily Cupi
Early Ambitions Development Adviser
Emily Cupi
Early Ambitions Development Adviser
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Emily is passionate about developing people who are in the early stages of their career and helping them to achieve their potential within the firm.
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My Recent Articles
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We are thrilled to welcome our largest ever trainee cohort
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Jennie Davis
SHMA Operations Manager
Jennie Davis
SHMA Operations Manager
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Jennie is a key member of our corporate team, providing advice to both private and public companies.

Jodie Simkins
Senior Conveyancing Executive
Jodie Simkins
Senior Conveyancing Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham

Julie Tromans
Consultant
Julie Tromans
Consultant
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
As Head of Member Services, my role is to ensure that we provide a bespoke service to our Membership in all matters relating to them being a member of Ampa Holdings LLP. This is from their joining to their retiring and their journey in between. As a team we look after member capital, drawings, profit share distributions, taxation and current accounts. We also deal with their onboarding, off boarding and any changes arising from promotions within the membership. We endeavour to be a trusted advisor to our membership and to be their ‘go to’ as much as possible, signposting them as necessary to our colleagues across Ampa Group Services.

Junaid Hussain
Paralegal