Inaugural Core Value Awards

We celebrated our inaugural Core Value Awards here at Awdry Bailey & Douglas this week. Three members of staff were chosen by the Management Team as the winners out of a very impressive 35 nominations in total. 

All three of these members of staff were recognised as having demonstrated the core values of ABD and have done so consistently throughout their time with us.

And those winners were... Eve Clarke, Michelle Morgan and Maxine Nutting. All three of them were the clear and well-deserved winners and they have each received a trophy and a £50.00 gift voucher. 

We are very fortunate at ABD to have such a fantastic group of people working for us and we are grateful for all of the hard work, dedication and commitment from everyone here. It is the people in the firm that have made it a success and long may that continue.

Here are some of the nomination testimonials from other members of staff for each of our winners:

Eve Clarke

Eve Clarke with her head of department, Cindy Ervine and Tim Hotchkiss

• She has been so generous with her time and experience, guiding me and providing advice when needed without hesitation.  
• She is a star!
• Eve always provides a professional and excellent service to our clients.
• Eve is an excellent role model as well as being a supportive and positive team member. 
• I always find her to be patient and willing to assist.
• Eve always has a positive attitude and welcomes new challenges.  
• She is always willing to offer advice on better ways of doing things.

Michelle Morgan

Michelle Morgan with Practice Manager, David Turley and Tim Hotchkiss

• Michelle is absolutely great with clients and helping them feel at ease. 
• She is always so helpful and proactive in organising rooms and meetings even before being prompted to do so.  
• She is always friendly and happy.
• She creates a really fantastic first impression of ABD when you walk into the Devizes office.  
• She goes out of her way to help everyone at the firm.  
• Michelle has shown great willingness to get involved in so many non-reception duties such as the website and certain events.  

Maxine Nutting

Maxine Nutting with her head of department, Rachel Fereday and Tim Hotchkiss

Maxine has made amazing progress on the personal development side since she started at the firm. 

She has put a lot of effort into organising fundraising events and communicating with the staff and charities about our efforts.  

Despite being under a lot of pressure from high workloads for a few months, she has displayed good teamwork, made every effort to promote the firm, worked on furthering her career and has given high levels of client service.  

She inspires confidence in clients.

She is a very positive person with a definite “can do” attitude.

Maxine has great integrity and is not afraid to challenge something if she doesn’t feel it is right, morally or legally.

It's been a busy few months | New Staff

We have had a busy few months here at Awdry Bailey & Douglas with lots of new staff joining our teams throughout our offices in Wiltshire. Please join us in welcoming them all.

PRIVATE CLIENT

Dayton is an experienced Private Client Advisor. He is particularly expert in dealing with personal taxation issues and as an experienced practitioner in the field is also able to offer a fully rounded service providing advice and support to clients wishing to make or review their wills, grant or exercise powers of attorney and of course to deal with probate and the administration of an estate when someone dies.

He is also able to provide advice on, and draft the requisite Deeds to set up Compensation Protection Trusts for monetary awards arising from Personal Injury or Clinical Negligence Claims; the main aim being to ring-fence their hard won award from assessment for means tested benefits.

Heather has joined our Royal Wootton Bassett office with 30 years of experience in Wills and Probate matters. She specialises in Wills, Probate, Powers of Attorney and Elderly Client matters as well working on LPA’s and Court of Protection matters.

Heather is a member of Solicitors for the Elderly – a group of specialist lawyers whose area of expertise is predominantly working with older clients.

CONVEYANCING

Adam has joined our Conveyancing team in Devizes. He specialises in all aspects of residential property transactions including sales, purchases, re-mortgages, transfers of equity, part exchanges and new build acquisitions.

Adam comments: ‘I really enjoy working with clients, it is the best part of the job for me and my new role with Awdry Bailey & Douglas is a great opportunity to meet more of the local community. Moving house is said to be one of life’s most stressful events and I aim to ensure that the process is as simple and stress free as possible for all of my clients. Whether you are buying your first home, selling and buying up to accommodate your ever growing family or selling a late relative’s property I am here to help.

Heidi has joined our Conveyancing team in the Chippenham office. 

COMMERCIAL LAW

Anna has joined our Commercial Department in the firms Devizes office. Anna has been working in the legal sector for 10 years and has now joined ABD has a Trainee Solicitor. 

AND NOT FORGETTING

We would also like to wish a very warm welcome to all of our new Legal Secretaries who have joined our various Conveyancing teams recently. Louisa Williams and Susan Farquar in our Marlborough office, Alice Hornett in Chippenham and Louisa Leslie in our Royal Wootton Bassett office.

For more information or to contact any of the above-mentioned legal staff, please call 01380 722311.