Addleshaw Booth & Co

Addleshaw Booth & Co was an English law firm which merged with Theodore Goddard in May 2003.

Itself the product of a merger between Booth & Co. and Addleshaw Sons & Latham, 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"] "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. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/2002/who/partners.shtml BBC Sport] "Manchester 2002 Commonwealth GamesOfficial Partners"]

Addleshaw Booth was the employer of Sally Clark (and also her husband), the solicitor wrongly convicted of murdering her two sons in 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XEKIIZGR0JHHDQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/19/db1902.xml Obituary] , "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] 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"] 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"] "Theodores partners vote for takeover by Addleshaws", Naomi Rovnick 16 April 2003]

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