Louise Smith

Trainee Solicitor

Biography

Louise is a third seat trainee solicitor in the Real Estate team. Louise works on a variety of real estate matters including freehold sales and purchases, site acquisition and development, and landlord and tenant matters. Being a member of the Energy and Resource Management team, Louise also works on a wide spectrum of energy and waste transactions.

Louise’s first seat as in the Planning and Infrastructure Consenting team, working on a broad range of planning matters but with a particular focus on section 106 agreements. Louise then completed her second seat in the Banking and Finance team, assisting lenders and borrowers on general and real estate finance transactions. 

Louise joined Ashfords in 2022 as a paralegal in the Real Estate team. Louise then secured her training contract and worked part time as a professional support paralegal within the Real Estate team whilst studying the LLM (SQE 1&2) full time.

Before joining Ashfords, Louise studied law at Durham University.

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