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Home / History

2017

Acquisition of KWM Cambridge office.

2017

Interact Law goes global for our international clients.

2015

Hutchinson Mainprice joined by merger.

2015

Pitmans acquires Calverts Law. Clients include Zaha Hadid.

2014

Ambrose Appelbe joined by merger.

2014

Pitmans acquires Southampton firm Lamport Bassit.

1 DECEMBER 2006

The firm became a limited liability partnership.

2006

Pitmans expands moving into The Anchorage, Bridge Street, Reading.

2005

Pitmans opens first office in London.

2001

The firm moved to new premises in Westminster.

OCTOBER 2000

Name was changed to Bircham Dyson Bell.

MAY 2000

Bower Cotton joined by merger.

1995

Stoneham Langton and Passmore joined by merger.

1991

Pitmans founds Interact Europe to help our clients overseas.

1970’s

Pitman & Bazett acquire Kent Thomas & Jones in 1974.
Pitman & Bazett split and become Pitmans, move to 47 Castle Street.

1939

Peter R Faulks, partner serves during WW2, awarded an MC, returning post war.

1910

Warren H Pitman move from Newbury to Reading.

1914

World War 1.

1914

Pitman & Bazett partner Frank Bazett 3rd Battallion Royal Berkshire Regiment: awarded an MC.

1900

Warren H Pitman takes over Pitman & Bazett.

1897

Oscar Wilde released from prison.

1889

Merged with Dyson Bell leading Parliamentary Agent.

1885

Pitman and Bazett clients, Bucklebury House.

1860

Warren H Pitman joins Alfred Campbell Bazett’s practice at 41 Cheap Street, Newbury.

1834

Bircham & Co founded by Francis Bircham at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.

1802

Richard Campbell Bazett, agent and solicitor for the East India Company.

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London
EC1A 7BL

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Cambridge
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Reading RG1 2LU

Southampton
Grosvenor House, Grosvenor Square
Southampton SO15 2BE

 

Reading
The Anchorage, 34 Bridge Street
Reading RG1 2LU

Southampton
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