Associate Promotions!

MRN are excited to announce 3 of its senior staff members have been promoted to Associates with effect from May 2023. Samantha Rowles (Head of Costs – Manchester), Vikki Weinrich-Cooke (Head of Costs – Leeds) and Holly Archbold (Head of Commercial Costs Team) have all been promoted to Associate. Speaking on the promotions, MRN’s Managing Director Elliot…

Vikki Weinrich-Cooke Swoops a Top ACL Award

Delighted to hear one of our Colleagues, Victoria Weinrich-Cooke has won the ACL Conference Cup, awarded for attaining the highest grade in the year. Victoria Graduated in January from the ACL Training course, in which she gained an award for her outstanding achievement during the course. The Conference Cup took place in Late April and…

A spotlight on Lindsay Woolford

Lindsay Woolford   How are you managing your work life balance? Fortunately, MRN are really busy at present and I have found it very rewarding to be able to assist Clients in ensuring the best possible outcomes and keeping on top of cash flow during the period of uncertainty. I regularly worked from home pre-pandemic…

Life under lockdown with our Avi Dolties

Avi Dolties How are you managing your work life balance? Is this a serious question? Work/Life? It’s more like work/work! Fortunately, for MRN we have had a steady stream of work and have been privileged to assist clients with securing their costs in this uncertain period of time. For me, it is about time management.…

MRN’s Top Ten Costs Tips 2020

Retainer Jessica Wiggins – Deputy Head of Costs Get your retainer in order from the outset and review it as the case progresses to ensure it continues to cover the action – this is particularly relevant for commercial clients where the initial retainer may only cover a specific piece of work but the case progresses and…

Your new Costs Expert – Muzna Nadim

Joining our team in Manchester, MRN Solicitors are happy to welcome our newest Costs Solicitor, Muzna Nadim.   After completing her LPC at the University of Law in 2013 Muzna worked as an in-house costs solicitor, gaining experience in a number of areas, including preparing budgets, budget discussion reports, bills of costs, and points of…

Your New Costs Expert – Victoria Yeomans

Joining our team at Leeds, Victoria Yeomans is our newest Costs Solicitor & Senior Costs Draftsman and brings with her experience of almost two decades in costs litigation.   Working in the costs sector since 1998, Victoria has spent her career building her knowledge across the country in a variety of personal injury, clinical negligence,…

Your New Costs Expert – Victoria Corris

This week MRN Solicitors welcomed the newest member to our team of experienced Costs Draftsman – Victoria Corris.   Specialising in all areas of personal injury as a Costs Draftsman, Victoria has previously worked on a variety of cases from fixed costs to high profile clinical negligence and traumatic brain injury cases in excess of…

Welcome Back, Gemma!

Recently returning from maternity leave, MRN Solicitors were very pleased to welcome our Gemma Taylor back into her valued role of Senior Costs Draftsman and Advocate. She’s certainly hit the ground running by winning her first hearing last week, successfully defending an application for an oral hearing made out of time by the paying party…