Our Team

Linda Ahern works in our Kingswood office, and is a Legal Executive dealing with wills, trust and Probate matters. She worked for Ledbury Merry initially. She is very keen on horses, and would (probably) like nothing more than to ride away for a day or two!

Claire Davis is an Associate in our Trust and Probate Department at Brislington.

Nick Duff is an Associate in our Brislington office and undertakes all types fo conveyancing, both for Residential and Business clients, including developers.

Sue Geleit works as an Associate in our Family/Litigation department in Clifton. She came to the profession after a number of years in the hotel business, and after bringing up her family, who all are now successfully involved with Catering! We are not sure when they will also decide to become lawyers!

Martin Goodall is a Consultant  specialising in Town and Country Planning, he is a Legal Associate of the RTPI. He has worked extensively in both Local Government and Private Practice.

Tim Johnson is one of the directors in the firm, has been qualified for rather longer than he cares to remember, having spent some years in industry before returning to private practice. He deals primarily in commercial matters, with a particular interest in copyright, promotional advertising and media, and other forms of intellectual property exploitation. He speaks French. He plays Real Tennis and his ambition is to make sure that his handicap is always lower than his age! He has taken to bringing his rather large, but very docile, dog in to work.

Patricia Leith-Phillips (prefers Pattie) has accumulated 34 years experience as a residential Conveyancer in places such as Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria, Shropshire and latterly Bristol. She has run a Guest house in Derbyshire which also had an antique shop in the grounds, the house was originally three cottages dating from the 16th Century and had been a pub and a post office and had it's very own ghost which was only seen by women.She is very proud of being a Scotswoman and her hobbies include not finishing the crossword and falling asleep before the end of the movies.

Mary McCartney is an an Associate who heads our Trust and Probate Department, and is based in our Clifton office. Mary is a member of STEP

Sarah McMurchie is a solicitor who specialises in Immigration Law. Having worked for the Solicitors Indemnity Fund Sarah keeps us on our toes so that we comply with all the professional rules and regulations which cover the Legal Profession.


Sue Morgan is an Associate  working in our Brislington office, specialising in Family and Matrimonial work, and also handling an increasing amount of contested Probate disputes. She has come to the law after an early and promising start with a musical career, she plays the violin amongst other instruments.

Chris Payne is an Associate in our Brislington Office and covers a wide range of work for both Private clients and small and medium sized businesses.

James Raskin is a Consultant with the firm in our Kingswood office, which still bears his name. He undertakes commercial work and has the added ability to speak a number of languages, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and now Polish!

John Todd is the litigation Director of the firm, and has been handling litigation matters since he qualified in 1971 (hopefully not the same ones!) He specialises in Family Law, and has done so for as long as he can remember. He is on the Law Society Family Panel and spent eleven years as a Deputy District Judge. John is an active member of a number of choirs although thankfully he doesn’t practice in the office!

Seiw Li Yap is a Solicitor in our commercial  property department specialising in commercial transactions, based in our Clifton office. Her clients range from retail through business and industrial clients to developers. Seiw speaks fluent Mandarin.