FIRM FOUNDATIONS
Committed - Members of the Jacksons Law Firm team . From left , partners Nicola Nielson and Toby Joel , managing partner Tony Wentworth , trainee solicitors Jack Farrow and Chloe Thompson , solicitor apprentice David Armitage and trainee solicitor Alena Din .
Meet the Teesbased law firm that ’ s proud of its past and enthused about its future
WORDS : DAVE ROBSON PICTURE : CHRIS BOOTH
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For a legal firm steeped in the Tees Valley ’ s illustrious history , Jacksons Law Firm could barely have been founded in a more appropriate year .
Just as Gilbert Benjamin Jackson was starting his law firm on Albert Road , Middlesbrough , in 1876 , the town ’ s football team was beginning its own journey .
And now , 147 years later , both are still going strong – resilient and respected products of the area they remain committed to serve .
Jacksons has acted for multiple generations of clients and grown with them , investing in the region as it did so .
But while the Stockton-based firm is understandably proud of its past , it is constantly looking to grow and evolve so that the present and future is just as bright …
THE PAST
When Gilbert Jackson founded his law firm , the town of Middlesbrough was emerging as a major player on the national stage .
Fuelled by the iron and steel industry and christened the “ Infant Hercules ” in 1862 by an impressed Chancellor of the Exchequer , William Gladstone , Middlesbrough was beginning to boom – and Mr Jackson realised it needed a legal offering of some standing .
Messrs Jacksons Solicitors of Middlesbrough provided such a service , working with the town ’ s founding fathers and having the likes of the Estate of Middlesbrough as neighbours .
After moving from Albert Road to Exchange Square , the family firm continued to flourish . Working through two world wars