City Solicitor Is New Head Of Law Group

A York solicitors' firm will see one of its partners crowned president of the Yorkshire Law Society tonight. Michael Peach, a partner with Ware & Kay Solicitors, with offices in Peasholme Green and Wetherby, holds the post in the society's 228th year. During his year in the post Mr. Peach will combine his duties leading the solicitors of Yorkshire with running his firm's Wetherby office. The Yorkshire Law Society is the second-oldest local law society in the country and membership is currently open to practising solicitors, legal executives, paralegals and university law lecturers together with some Country Court Judges. Mr. Peach, who will be instated as president during a reception at York's Merchant Taylors' Hall, has confirmed that his charity of the year is Martin House Children's Hospice at Boston Spa, near Wetherby. Saltburn-born Mr…

Meet The Boss One Of The Good Guys

Background: David Hyams went to the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Kent and attended universities in Leicester and Leeds, before qualifying as a solicitor in 1997. He joined the firm now known as Ware & Kay in 1998 and became a Director in 2003. In that year he also obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Legal Practice. David is the head of the Commercial Property Department in York. He specialises in the sale and acquisition of commercial freehold property as well as all aspects of the leasing of commercial property, including the grant and transfer of leases, and business asset sales. He has handled all types of commercial property including licensed premises, restaurants, shops, warehouses and factories. Within the firm David is responsible for marketing and business development. David was the Parliamentary…

Coast To Coast Bike Ride Challenge

Cycling enthusiasts Peter Kay (Senior Partner), David Hyams (Partner), David Kershaw (Solicitor), Andrew Daffern (Practice Manager) and Richard Daffern (Fireman from North Yorkshire Fire Brigade) succeeded in cycling 192 miles from coast to coast in only two and half days. They set off on the gruelling 192 mile bike ride from Barrow in Furness on Friday 7th June and completed 76 miles on the first leg of their journey before stopping at Kirkby Stephen.  On the second day they cycled another 74 miles to Osmotherly before completing the rest of the journey on the 9th June in Whitby with a fish and chip lunch. Peter Kay said "Nothing can beat the massive sense of achievement you feel having done the coast to coast.  It was a stunning ride through Cumbria then the Yorkshire Dales, across…

Merger With Sykes Lee Brydson

Ware & Kay are pleased to announce the merger with Sykes Lee & Brydson.   The combined practices will operate under the name Ware & Kay headed by Peter Kay as Senior Partner.   Two Historic Names One Great Firm Ware & Kay identified that Sykes Lee & Brydson share a similar ethos and approach to its own and welcomed the additional staff and most importantly its clients as part of a planned expansion strategy. Peter Kay said: "The primary driving force behind the merger was a shared desire to increase the legal services from which both sets of clients could benefit.  As a larger firm our business clients benefit from a much broader range of expertise, including corporate, commercial and employment teams, an extensive litigation and dispute resolution capability and the addition of niche know-how…

The Natural Step Forward

TWO long-established Yorkshire legal firms have merged, it was announced yesterday. Ware & Kay, which has offices in York and Wetherby, said that it has joined forces with Sykes Lee & Brydson. The combined practices will operate under the name Ware & Kay, headed by Peter Kay as senior partner. Ware & Kay said that it identified that Sykes Lee & Brydson shares "a similar ethos and approach to its own", adding that as a result of the merger annual turnover will rise by 25 per cent from £2m. The firm said that it welcomed the additional staff and its clients as part of a planned expansion strategy. The financial details of the merger were not disclosed. Ware & Kay has been operating for 200 years, while the history of Sykes Lee & Brydson goes back to at least 1830 and…

City Law Firms Merge

TWO historic York law firms have merged Ware & Kay and Sykes Lee & Brydson each has more than 200 years of history in York, and will create an enlarged Ware & Kay, employing 66 staff and five partners, at the firm's Peasholme Green premises. Ware & Kay has taken on 13 additional staff from Sykes Lee & Brydson, which was based in two sites in Acomb and Judges' Court, Coney Street, York, where it has been based since at least 1850. Peter Kay, senior partner at Ware & Kay, said: "As a larger firm our business clients benefit from a much broader range of expertise, including corporate, commercial and employment teams, an extensive litigation and dispute resolution capability and the addition of niche know-how in fields such as mediation. "The families and individuals we serve…