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Who are we? | The Lawyers | Technology

Who Are We?

The Osborne Morris and Morgan (OMM) law firm was founded in Bletchley in 1980. From the outset, OMM specialised in the provision of private client services with a particular emphasis upon personal injury, financial management, trusts and conveyancing services to clients throughout the Home Counties.

A second office, that subsequently became the headquarters for the law firm opened in Leighton Buzzard in 1982. The practice has since evolved into a team with a national reputation as lawyers, solicitors and neurolawyers providing legal services throughout the United Kingdom.

Now with offices in Milton Keynes and Leighton Buzzard providing private client legal services with a particular emphasis upon catastrophic personal injury, clinical negligence, financial management and property services, OMM utilise the latest online information technology to provide to all our clients an unrivalled portfolio of quality legal services.

OMM is a Lexcel accredited law firm. The Lexcel quality mark is only awarded to those who meet the highest management and customer care standards. As a Lexcel accredited firm OMM undergo rigorous independent assessment every year to ensure the required standards of excellence in areas such as client care and file management, are met and maintained... ensuring that OMM is equipped to provide you with a top quality service fulfilling all the Lexcel practice management criteria.

The Lawyers


Eric Morris

Senior Partner & Head of Court of Protection
Head of the Court of Protection team, Eric was admitted as a Solicitor in 1977. He has extensive experience in very large personal injury claims and has handled numerous multi-million pound High Court claims over the past 20 years. Whilst continuing with his High Court work, Eric also acts as a Trustee for or on behalf of clients. He is also a Receiver, appointed by the Court of Protection, for clients who have suffered serious acquired brain injuries and who need ongoing assistance with their financial affairs. He was instrumental in creating OMM’s dedicated Court of Protection department, handling the administration and investment of substantial funds on behalf of individuals who have suffered serious injury.

Sonia Hodges

Partner – Head of Personal Injury and Neurolaw

Sonia obtained her law degree at Cardiff University and qualified as a Solicitor in 1996. Sonia subsequently gained extensive experience in road traffic, employer’s liability and public liability work acting almost exclusively for claimants. Sonia now specialises in brain injury, fatal accident and catastrophic injury claims.

Peter Morgan

Consultant - Property Law
After graduating with a London University Law Degree, Peter qualified as a solicitor in 1978 and founded OMM with Tom Osborne and Eric Morris in 1980. Taking a particular interest in property and portfolio management, Peter, a past member of the Securities Institute, now focuses on practice management, heading up the residential and commercial property departments and sitting as a non-executive director of several technology companies.

Melanie Williams

Solicitor – Head of Wills, Trusts and Probate

Melanie has recently joined the firm as Head of Wills, Trusts and Probate. Having graduated with a Law degree, Melanie qualified as a Solicitor in October 1995. Since then she has gained a range of experience in Private Client work including conveyancing. More recently she has chosen to specialize in the field of Wills, Trust and Probate. She is a student member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Jackie Robertson

Licensed Conveyancer – Property

Jackie heads the Property department at our Bletchley office. Jackie qualified as a Licensed Conveyancer in 1997 after acquiring many years experience undertaking residential conveyancing in London and Leighton Buzzard before joining OMM in Bletchley in 1985. She has extensive experience in all aspects of property matters.

Patricia Old

Conveyancing Executive

Pat commenced her career in conveyancing in 1982, gaining extensive experience in managing volume residential conveyancing before joining OMM in 1999. Enthused with the opportunities that e-conveyancing will be presenting in the next few years, Pat is actively involved in the promotion of Home Information Packs and the new Solicitors Estate Agency initiatives at OMM’s Bletchley office.


Lorraine Stevens

Lorraine is Personal Assistant to Eric and has been with Osborne Morris & Morgan for eighteen years. Lorraine has had extensive experience in both large High Court personal injury claims and Court of Protection matters. Lorraine ensures the smooth running of the Court of Protection department and handles the day to day administration tasks in conjunction with Eric. Lorraine enjoys client contact and her sympathetic and understanding approach is much appreciated by our clients.


Tim Woolford

Managing Partner
Tim was admitted to the Roll in 1995 and has been with OMM since 2000. He is a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel; a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Headway (the brain injury association) and the Spinal Injuries Association, and a Trustee of Headway South Bedfordshire and Headway Bedford. In the three years to December 2006, Tim secured damages for his clients in excess of £13.5m.

David Turner

Partner – Head of Clinical Negligence
David was admitted to the Roll in 1990 and since 1993, has specialised exclusively in Clinical Negligence litigation. He was admitted to the AvMA Clinical Negligence and The Law Society Clinical Negligence panels in 1996.

Gary Williams

Partner – Clinical Negligence
Gary was admitted as a Solicitor in 2002 and has since specialised exclusively in Clinical Negligence. Having trained with OMM before qualifying as a solicitor, he was made a partner in the firm in 2006. He is also a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence panel.

Tom Osborne

Consultant – Clinical Negligence

Tom was for 25 years the senior partner of OMM and is now a consultant with the firm. He is a specialist in catastrophic injuries and medical negligence, and has developed a specialist interest in cerebral palsy claims. In his role as consultant, Tom continues to conduct substantial clinical negligence litigation in Scotland, bringing his expertise and dynamic approach to a new jurisdiction. He has retained a special-interest in the head injury and is still actively involved in Headway, and between 1992 and 1994, was national chairman of the charity.

Harshinder Hundal

Solicitor

Harshinder qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and chose to specialise in Property Law. She has a solid background in portfolio management, property acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold interests. She has worked with clients whose primary business is property or whose business relies upon a significant property base – whether lender, investor, developer, retailer, individual or public body. Harshinder’s areas of expertise include:-Corporate Finance – refinancing, acting for Lenders in securitisation matters. Corporate Support – assisting colleagues in corporate acquisitions and disposals.Landlord and Tenant issues – advising Landlords and Tenants of the legal implications in taking and granting leases, assignments, sub-lets, rent deposits, break clauses and rent reviews.General commercial property estate management – Purchases, Options, Conditional contracts, Sales by Auction of for example retail & office units, industrial sites and site assembly

Sarah Crook

Legal Executive

Sarah has completed her Legal Executive membership examinations and qualifies shortly as a Legal Executive. Now working primarily in the commercial property department after several years in residential conveyancing Sarah is leading the implementation of the new IT strategies within both commercial and residential property work at OMM.


Lesley Bailey

Practice Manager

Having had previous accounts experience with a London law firm, Lesley joined OMM in 1982 to assist in managing the firm’s finances. As the role expanded to include Practice Administration, Lesley completed courses in business management at post-graduate level to enable her to support Peter Morgan in his role as Managing Partner. She is also focusing on OMM plans for the longer term future, and in maintaining OMM’s Lexcel accreditation first awarded to the firm in 2003.

Sean Street

Sean has been with the firm for a number of years. He is a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians. Sean specialises in handling the financial aspects of the Court of Protection department including the annual accounts, tax computations and tax returns. He generally assists with the smooth running of the financial systems utilised in the department and is always ready to help with any queries raised on behalf of clients.


Technology

   
OMM has made a substantial financial commitment to source the latest innovative legal software to speed up the process of acting upon your behalf with a particular emphasis upon communication software. This state of the art technology enables us to correspond with barristers, experts, estate agents, third party solicitors and most importantly our clients to facilitate acting in your best interests at all times.