The personal and family department at UK law firm Sintons is moving forward with new leadership, as it seeks to push on with plans to grow its presence in the North East and wider UK.

Sinton’s head of wills, trusts and probate team, Paul Nickalls, has been named as the firm’s new head of its personal and family department – which brings together Sintons’ family, residential property, court of protection and wills, trusts and probate teams.

Mr Nickalls is an experienced private client lawyer who is appointed to work on complex, high value administration of estates and inheritance tax planning matters.

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