About Tom
Tom is an Associate Solicitor within our Residential Conveyancing team, which is led by Sarah Sams.
Since qualifying as a Solicitor in 2022, Tom has developed his experience in several areas of Residential Property Law.
These include:
- Freehold and Leasehold sales and purchases
- Secured Lending and Buy-to-Let transactions
- Transfers of equity
- Re-mortgages
- Equity Release
Why A Career In Property Law?
Tom has been drawn to Property Law since the beginning of his path at university, as he felt this area of law often has a positive outcome; allowing clients to move onto the next chapters of their lives, whether it’s their first property, or they are growing their property portfolio.
An innate desire to help people led Tom to law and he takes pride in his ability to dissipate stressful periods of people’s lives, using his experience and love for his work as main drivers.
Rewarding Elements
For Tom, delivering good news to clients, whether to inform them about completion or being able to say a challenge has been overcome, is the most rewarding aspect of his work.
Tom accepts that challenges do sometimes arise during transactions, but his calm and professional demeanour allows him to navigate these and ensure that a successful outcome is achieved.
Why Dutton Gregory?
Tom has found a clear progression path at Dutton Gregory and has noted how the support and flexibility on offer have allowed him to progress from Paralegal to Associate Solicitor.
He feels that the culture cultivates an environment “big on progression and rewarding hard work” and that we “constantly look to invest in the people and are always seeking ways to change and improve with the times”.