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Caring values provide growth for family firm

Balderstone law firm, Burys Solicitors, has announced strong growth, with turnover up 33 percent year-on-year for the last four years.  Drawing on its team’s personal experience of family loss to provide a sympathetic service to bereaved people across the region, the firm attributes increasing demand to its sensitive approach and specialist expertise.

The firm was set up four years ago by Joanne Bury, whilst caring for her mother, Shirley, who suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s from the age of 55, and who later sadly passed away in 2015 following a 12-month battle with lung cancer.  Whilst her mother was hospitalised, Joanne also had to deal with her father’s serious illness, which required him to stay in intensive care.  After going through these difficult times, Joanne fully understands the stress of arranging paperwork when coping with the illness and loss of loved ones.  As a result, Burys Solicitors strives to make legal arrangements as easy possible for people experiencing these issues and offers a niche service to fit in with clients’ busy schedules, including visits in the privacy and comfort of their homes at no additional cost.

Each year, Joanne holds a music festival called ‘Shirlstock’ in honour of her beloved mother, Shirley Bury, who was widely known and loved in the local community, after working in Barclays for over 40 years.  The popular event raises money for Blackburn with Darwen Carers Service, of which Joanne is a trustee, and will be happening on the 14th July 2018 this year.

Joanne specialises in wills, probate, powers of attorney and care home fees and lectures students at degree level at University Centre at Blackburn College.  Associate solicitor, Charlotte Huxley, excels in wills and court of protection work and shares the same passion for providing a sensitive and professional service.  Consultant solicitor, Chris Raven, brings 43 years’ experience to the team and newest recruit, paralegal, Melissa Cooper, was talent spotted whilst under Joanne’s tutelage at university.

Company director and solicitor, Joanne Bury, says: “All members of the team have been affected first-hand by the loss of loved ones to dementia, Alzheimer’s and cancer.  We’re ordinary people affected by the same traumas as our clients, we just happen to have qualifications that can help to make their lives a little easier.

“We are happy to do anything we can do to educate the local community and to benefit carers of those who are suffering from dementia, old age or terminal illnesses.  From attending coffee mornings or educational conferences or seminars, we have been on panels for experts for other professionals, charities and social groups/clubs all over Lancashire.

“I am newly on the board of Trustees for Blackburn with Darwen Carers Service and as stated, I have been a lecturer on the law degree and other professional qualifications at the University Centre at Blackburn College for eight years. I am very much here for my community, as my amazing late mum was.”

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