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.