Carolyn is Temple Heelis’ Marketing and Business Development Project Manager, providing strategic input to the Managing Partner, advising the partners and their teams on significant projects, assisting with client and business development planning, and managing the legal directory submissions and interviews.
Carolyn spent the first 10 years of her career working in North America, beginning as a management trainee with IBM, then moving into business development and marketing in the professional services sector (Ernst & Young). Coming back to the UK with E&Y, Carolyn was the senior northern business development and marketing manager until head-hunted by Addleshaws to join their executive management team as a salaried partner and National Business Development Director. As an ambitious management team, the firm first created Addleshaw Booth, then consistently expanded this northern legal powerhouse through organic (client) growth, winning targeted new business, and identifying suitable lateral hires and mergers/acquisitions. A London office followed, then a merger with Theodore Goddard to form Addleshaw Goddard with Carolyn appointed National Director and a member of the firm’s management board.
During Carolyn’s decade with Addleshaws, the firm won Law Firm of the Year and other significant awards, Most Enterprising Management Team, and Carolyn was named UK’s Marketing Director of the Year (and her team, Team of the Year) for her role in winning and leading the firm’s appointment as Official Lawyers to Manchester XVII: 2002 Commonwealth Games for five years. After several years in London, Carolyn returned to the North West to join Hill Dickinson where she held a similar role and spear-headed the firm’s growth and marketing programmes, including winning appointment as official lawyers to Liverpool 2008: European Capital of Culture.
In 2008, Carolyn created a business consultancy and for the next 12 years worked with ambitious, growth-oriented businesses throughout the UK, Channel Islands, Ireland and Europe to help them devise and implement business development strategies, client feedback and relationship programmes, merger/acquisition marketing and communications, and new business pitches/tenders. One such client was Temple Heelis. In 2019, Carolyn was given an opportunity ‘too good to refuse’ for her consultancy and, since then, joined Temple Heelis for whom she works exclusively.
Moving to the beautiful Lake District when she married 5 years ago, Carolyn loves outdoor activities especially walking, tennis and gardening.
Mitch is a Legal Apprentice in our Private Client department, working as part of a leading North West team who advise High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth individuals and families in planning their assets for the future. Chambers High Net Worth Guide
Mitch enjoys studying. He completed his A levels in Maths, Business and Economics at the Queen Katherine School and took an interest in Temple Heelis’ business administration apprenticeship at Kendal College.
Mitch has now completed his Business Administration Level 3 qualifications which has included setting up a portfolio of work and skills. In his role at Temple Heelis, he supports qualified lawyers and specialist paralegals in drafting letters to clients, and undertaking legal administration for Wills, Powers of Attorney and Trusts. He also liaises with clients to make arrangements for meetings and reviews. Mitch gets a real buzz out of working with many different people and helping them protect their assets for future generations.
No two days are the same for Mitch and he loves the variety of work and the team spirit which exists in one of the region’s leading Private Client departments. For the past year, he has been a key member of a special ‘working party’ which has developed a new estate planning programme and will be the programme’s primary administrator for clients involved in the service.
A keen football player, Mitch can be found on a local pitch at least twice a week and enjoys meeting friends and outdoor pursuits when not ‘kicking the ball’.