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Three Peaks Challenge successfully completed

Three Peaks Challenge successfully completed

Wollastons' employee, Laura Collingwood, was just one of a group of people who took part  in a "Three Peaks Challenge" on 14/15 June, in a bid to raise money for charities, RE-WIRED and the St Monicah Fountain Academy. Laura comments: "Well . . . it's over!  ...

Essex Business Excellence Awards - Judging has begun

Essex Business Excellence Awards - Judging has begun

With the entry deadline for the Essex Business Excellence Awards now closed, Judges have begun their work to find winners from among the very best businesses in the county. As joint main sponsor, we are once again judging the main award, the ''Essex Business of the ...

Wollastons Race for Business - runners and results

Wollastons Race for Business - runners and results

Over 1,700 runners from 183 Essex businesses took part in the 12th Race for Business on Wednesday 30 June, on what proved to be the hottest race to date. Since the first Race for Business in 1998 we have raised over £370,000 for various charities. Further ...

Wollastons - raising money for charity

Wollastons - raising money for charity

Essex based solicitors, Wollastons, was just one of the local businesses taking part in a very exciting dragon boat race on Sunday 13 June in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research and the Tim Reeve Charitable Trust. Tim, who previously worked at Wollastons, sadly lost his ...

Essex solicitor takes the Three Peaks Challenge

Essex solicitor takes the Three Peaks Challenge

Wollastons' employee, Laura Collingwood, is just one of a group of people due to take part in the "Three Peaks Challenge" on 14/15 June, in a bid to raise money for charities, RE-WIRED and the St Monicah Fountain Academy. Laura comments: "I have (foolishly) committed myself ...

Wollastons are going dutch!

Wollastons are going dutch!

Essex based solicitors, Wollastons, is just one of of the teams taking part in what should be a very exciting dragon boat race taking place in Chelmsford town centre on Sunday 13 June in aid of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Research and the Tim Reeve Charitable Trust. ...

Wollastons 2010 Race For Business

Wollastons 2010 Race For Business

Essex firm of solicitors, Wollastons, host of the annual ‘Race for Business', has announced that this year's event will be taking place in Chelmsford on 30 June. The race will be supporting, for the first time, joint beneficiaries, one being the J's Hospice and the ...

2010 Essex Business Excellence Awards

2010 Essex Business Excellence Awards

Entries for the 2010 Essex Business Excellence Awards have started and, for the eighth year running, Wollastons is a joint main sponsor and will be judging the overall "Essex Business of the Year". Wollastons are also initiating a new category of award known as "Constructing ...

Wollastons Employment Law Seminars

Wollastons Employment Law Seminars

On 12 and 19 May 2010 Essex based law firm, Wollastons, held two free half-day employment law seminars at Waterfront Place, Chelmsford covering the latest developments in this ever-changing area of law. Topics included: Employment status Day to day employee issues What's new in 2010? Employment law ...

Wollastons Solicitors - Beware of the Dragon

Wollastons Solicitors - Beware of the Dragon

Essex based solicitors, Wollastons, is one of 26 local businesses who have entered a team in what should be a very exciting dragon boat race taking place in Chelmsford town centre on Sunday 13 June. Teams of 11 rowers will race to raise money for Leukemia and ...

3rd Year Running for Best Companies Accreditation

3rd Year Running for Best Companies Accreditation

Despite a turbulent and challenging year Essex's leading commercial law firm, Wollastons LLP, is one of only a handful of law firms in the country to receive Best Companies Accreditation in 2010 for its excellence in the workplace and its investment in people.  The Best ...

Essex Business Excellence Awards 2010

Essex Business Excellence Awards 2010

Wollastons are delighted to support this year's Essex Business Excellence Awards.  As the leading commercial law firm in the region, Wollastons are helping to support and promote business in Essex by teaming up with chartered accountants Bird Luckin as the joint main sponsors of these ...

Essex Auto Group help facilitate first new fire station

Essex Auto Group help facilitate first new fire station

Essex Auto Group (a Wollastons client), has helped facilitate the first new fire station to be built in Essex for 20 years.  A conference room in the property for use by the local community was named in honour of the support provided by the company. ...

Wollastons' Race for Business supports The J's Hospice

Wollastons' Race for Business supports The J's Hospice

Our annual Race for Business will be taking place in Chelmsford on Wednesday 30 June and The J's Hospice are to be the 2010 beneficiary charity.  At the media launch Richard Wollaston said: "We are thrilled when runners take part in the Race for the first ...

Wollastons' Race for Business raises £30K for Charity

Wollastons' Race for Business raises £30K for Charity

Richard Wollaston recently handed over a cheque for £30,000 to Farleigh Hospice.  All the money was raised by the runners and businesses that supported the 2009 Wollastons Race for Business. "Last year's Race for Business was another great success" said Richard Wollaston.  "Over 1,800 runners took ...

Essex based firm wins Christmas e-card challenge

The winner of the Wollastons Christmas e-card challenge was Dan Drysdale of Richard Edwards & Co, Chartered Accountants in Halstead, Essex.  The online challenge to complete a matching pairs style game in the fastest time possible was won by Dan with a winning time of 21.82 ...

Wollastons recruits two new specialists

Wollastons recruits two new specialists

We are anticipating a recovery in the legal market by announcing two senior appointments. Richard Cooke, pictured left, has been recruited as a Partner to join our Construction team and brings a wealth of experience to the firm.Until three years ago, Richard was ...

Brand Protection

Brand Protection

What do you do when a competitor uses or attacks your brand? What can you do about the damage to your customer relationships, sales and reputation? We held a free breakfast seminar on 1st December where our expert speakers detailed the practical steps that you can ...

Planning controls and their enforcement - new edition

Planning controls and their enforcement - new edition

Jim Little's book on 'Planning Controls and their Enforcement' has now been in publication for 45 years and is currently in its 7th Edition.  It is in loose-leaf and is kept up-to-date by supplements, usually twice a year.By last Summer there had been ...

Marathon running for charity

Marathon running for charity

Richard Wollaston ran the Royal Parks half marathon on behalf of St Dunstan's, a charity specialising in giving support to blind ex-service men and women like his own father-in-law, Bill Routledge, who is now 90 years old and was a POW on the Burma railway. Richard managed the ...

Wollastons is named as a 'Regional Heavyweight'

Wollastons is named as a 'Regional Heavyweight'

We have once again been named in the September 2009 edition of The Legal 500 as a "Regional Heavyweight" for the eighth year running. We are the only Essex firm ranked as a "Regional Heavyweight" across the entire South East Region running from Southampton up ...

The 2009 Essential Employment Law Update

The 2009 Essential Employment Law Update

On 29 April and 5 May Wollastons' employment law team held two free half-day employment law seminars at Waterfront Place, Chelmsford covering the latest developments in this ever-changing area of law. Topics included: -  Redundancies-  The Employment Act 2008-  Discrimination Update-  Employment Law Round ...

New Chairman for Chelmsford Business Forum

New Chairman for Chelmsford Business Forum

Nicholas Cook, a consultant at Wollastons, has been appointed as Chairman of Chelmsford Business Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity for private and public sector organisations in the borough to work together, share information and build business relationships for the purpose of enhancing the prosperity of ...

1,800 ran in Wollastons Race for Business

1,800 ran in Wollastons Race for Business

Over 1,800 runners from 187 Essex businesses took part in the 11th Race for Business on Wednesday 10 June. Since the first Race for Business in 1998, we have raised over £315,000 for various charities. Further sponsorship money is already pouring in for the 2009 Race.  ...