Addleshaw Booth & Co
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| dissolved = 1 May 2003
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Addleshaw Booth & Co was an English law firm which merged with Theodore Goddard in May 2003 to form Addleshaw Goddard.
History
Addleshaw Booth & Co traces its roots back to the very first public record of solicitors in the UK – the Law List – published in 1775.
Nicholas Smith founds the firm in 1775, and Samuel Lister Booth is admitted as a solicitor in 1823. The successors of these practices combined over the years to become Booth, Clough & Booth in 1869. Further amalgamations lead to the firm becoming Booth & Co based in Leeds. in c.1936. John William Addleshaw begins legal practice in 1857 and enters partnership with William Warburton in 1873. The firm becomes Addleshaw & Sons in 1904, and then Addleshaw Sons & Latham in 1917 based in Manchester.
Addleshaw Booth & Co was formed in 1997 by a merger between the Leeds-based Booth & Co. and the Manchester-based Addleshaw Sons & Latham.{{cite news|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/analysis/2080618/legacies-lost-addleshaws-regain-polish|title=Legacies lost – can Addleshaws regain that old polish?|accessdate=29 October 2012|publisher=Legal Week|date=23 June 2011}} Addleshaw Booth was a 'heavyweight' in the North of England legal sector, with offices in Leeds and Manchester.[http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=100759&d=11&h=24&f=23 The Lawyer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233627/http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=100759&d=11&h=24&f=23 |date=27 September 2007 }} TG partners braced for Addleshaws takeover, Naomi Rovnick 17 February 2003 Its local standing, amongst other things, led to the firm's high-profile appointment as the official lawyers to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/2002/who/partners.shtml BBC Sport] Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games
Official partners
Addleshaw Booth was the employer of Sally Clark (and also her husband), the solicitor wrongly convicted of murdering her two sons in 1999.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XEKIIZGR0JHHDQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/19/db1902.xml Obituary]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2007.
It was a member of the Norton Rose M5 alliance, which disbanded in 1998.[http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=91439 Norton Rose M5 alliance agrees to disband in August] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233814/http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=91439 |date=27 September 2007 }} from The Lawyer
However, the firm's small office in London, and its failure to garner City-based clients, led to the tie-up with Theodore Goddard in the spring of 2003 to become Addleshaw Goddard.[http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=28 Legal Business] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008094732/http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=28 |date=8 October 2007 }} Profile of Addleshaw Goddard Seen by many commentators in the legal sector as a takeover, the majority of the management board of the new firm were made up of Addleshaw Booth & Co's partners.[http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=99552&d=11&h=24&f=23 The Lawyer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233620/http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=99552&d=11&h=24&f=23 |date=27 September 2007 }} Theodores partners vote for takeover by Addleshaws, Naomi Rovnick 16 April 2003
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Category:Defunct law firms of the United Kingdom
Category:Law firms established in 1997
Category:1997 establishments in England
Category:Law firms disestablished in 2003