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Law firm Simpson Millar has welcomed solicitor Rachel Scales and paralegals Shea Kelly, Emily Chalk, Clara Jenkins, Mia Cappabianca and Elena Funnell to its education law team.
The team specialises in cases involving children with special educational needs (SEN) and EHCPs, as well as helping parents and carers with admissions, exclusions, children out of education, bullying, discrimination, judicial reviews and other types of disputes with schools.
Scales has more than 10 years’ legal experience and previously owned her own business working as a freelance solicitor specialising in SEN. She joins the firm’s London-based team where she will support clients working across a range of education law cases.
Kelly, Chalk, Jenkins, Cappabianca and Funnell will also be based out of the firm’s London office.
Sarah Woosey, a partner within the education law team, welcomed the new arrivals, saying that their ‘experience and expertise’ would allow the firm to take on more cases, and support more families with ‘urgent and often distressing’ matters relating to accessing education.
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