LAW FIRM HITS ITS GOAL

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Sunderland law firm Emmersons Solicitors has reported a 120
per cent rise in turnover of its conveyancing department, as it
provides organisations like the Sunderland fan magazine, A
Love Supreme, with critical property advice.


THE FAMILY-RUN solicitors firm, which has
offices on John Street, Sunderland, and
also on Gosforth High Street, Newcastle,
has assisted the magazine in securing a
long-term lease on its offices.

A Love Supreme (ALS) previously didn’t
have a permanent lease on its premises on
Stadium Way, next to the Stadium of Light,
but with a new landlord in place,
Emmersons managed to cement a formal
fixed tenancy agreement on the office.
As the club had operated out of the
building for more than 11 years, the team at
Emmersons negotiated a ‘right to stay’
clause in the new contract in accordance with
the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, giving it
permanent rights and residency of the
office.

Emmersons Solicitors’ head of conveyancing,
John Coulter, said: “ALS’s new
lease deal comes only days after
Emmersons’ calculated turnover in its convenyancing
department up by more than
120 per cent on last year’s figures.
“It’s great news that despite tough economic
times, when conveyancing has typically
been at an all time low, that we have
actually bucked this trend and are holding
our own.
“This year we have seen a huge rise in
the amount of work coming into our conveyancing
department. We have been particularly
pleased with the amount of commercial
property work that we have undertaken.
I think this comes off the back of
more Sunderland-based companies realising
that they don’t have to take their legal
work outside of Sunderland, and that we are
capable of providing all of their legal
requirements.

“We deal with business disputes, commercial
conveyancing and leases for a large
number of businesses. Also, as far as we
believe, we are the only solicitors firm in
Sunderland undertaking commercial litigation.”
A Love Supreme editor Martyn
McFadden said: “We are very grateful to
Emmersons Solicitors for the swift and professional
service they gave us in helping us
to secure a fixed tenancy agreement at the
club, which was potentially a complex job.
Emmersons were excellent and the research
and planning stage of our lease agreement
as well as offering advice on the content of
the lease and other business arrangements.
This really was a ‘back of the net’ deal.”