Kain Knight go From Strength to Strength Announcing Seven New Starters
Following a period of sustained growth across their extensive client base in the Clinical Negligence and Court of Protection practice areas, Kain Knight who are the largest team of independent costs lawyers in the UK, are delighted to announce the arrival of seven new costs experts in the first half of 2024.
Kain Knight who operate nationally with support offices in London, Essex, Manchester, and Cornwall have welcomed, Senior Costs Draftsperson, Elizabeth Harper who joined the Manchester office in January with a costs career spanning more than 20 years. She worked for various Law and Cost Drafting firms, where she gained invaluable experience from both Claimant and Defendant perspectives. The Manchester office also saw the arrival of Senior Costs Draftsman, Wai Ken Yau in April, who joined from an in-house costs team where he worked for a top legal 500 firm.
Steven Wren joined Kain Knight in February, with over 20 years costs experience in high-value serious injury and clinical negligence work (both Claimant and Defendant) including working on large group action costs claims. Prior to joining, Steven worked at 2 large national firms before setting up a small private costs practice. Cost Draftsman Alex Hurley also joined Kain Knight in February, previously heading up in house costs teams for around 5 years before returning to a more hands on role in 2020.
Solicitor, Adam Lister joined in May with extensive costs law experience from BLM where he was Head of Costs. Adam was a personal injury/catastrophic injury solicitor for 7 years before that but had specialised in legal costs for the past 20 years. He specialises in industrial disease costs, abuse group actions, data breach costs and commercial costs acting for insurers, government departments, county councils and companies.
Kain Knight operate a very flexible business model that allows the costs experts to work from anywhere and the recruitment of Ian Valentine, is testament to that. Ian has recently emigrated to Australia, having also joined Kain Knight in May. Ian has worked with, and for, some of the largest firms of solicitors and insurers in the UK. He now has over 20 years’ worth of experience in civil litigation on both Claimant and Defendant side. Ian will now continue his costs career from the other side of the world, supported by Kain Knight’s infrastructure.
Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Kain, comments “I am delighted to welcome all of the new starters who will be an integral part of the company’s strategic growth plans, and in addition we look forward to welcoming Adrian Hawley who will also be joining the business on the 1st of August. We take pride in looking after our staff at Kain Knight and operate a rewarding and flexible structure for our teams across the country. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone the very best of luck in their roles.”
