please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . may 2013 the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources rollits llp news newspapers books scholar jstor free images april 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message rollits llp headquarters kingston upon hull no . of offices 2 no . of attorneys 60 no . of employees 100 key people richard field senior partner ralph gilbert managing partner 1 date founded 1841 company type limited liability partnership website rollits.com rollits llp is a yorkshire commercial law firm with offices in hull and york england . the firm was founded in 1841 by john rollit and is run by richard field as managing partner and steve trynka as senior partner . rollits employ around 100 staff which includes over 60 lawyers of whom 21 are partners . in may 2010 the firm became a limited liability partnership moving away from the traditional partnership model to a more modern and flexible structure . rollits practice is focused on corporate clientele ranging from major plcs to smaller private companies charities and the education sector . the firm also serves private clients in trust and estate planning . contents 1 history 2 awards and rankings 3 references 4 external links history edit albert rollit in hull in 1841 john rollit the son of a local cabinet maker became an articled clerk in the offices of local solicitor william dryden at 2 bowlalley lane . later having married eliza kaye the daughter of the builder of huddersfield architect joseph kaye 2 set up the law firm at 62 whitefriargate in 1850 . in the twentieth century and rollits continued under the direction of john s two sons albert and arthur . thomas farrell joined the firm in 1875 after a spell as a journalist for the hull morning news but it was his son hugh who put the family name on the name plate . later he was joined by dick bladon who became a partner on new year s day 1934 when the firm became rollit farrell & bladon . since then the firm has continued to grow as a private and commercial firm with partners changing over the years to reflect the changing needs of commerce and new legal strictures that were placed on business under each new government administration . after the second world war and into the 1960s the firm increased in size as it became essential to share the growing workload . in the 1970s the firm merged with mainprize & rignall 3 and in the 1980s acquired neville hobson & co. it was at this point that the traditional mode of partnership management which involved all partners in every decision was abandoned in favour of a more modern management committee . today the firm has adopted a modern management structure with a management board supported by three teams business support knowledge and skills and client relations . its offices are based in its birth city of hull and also in york . sector specialisms agriculture & horticulture charities & social enterprise 4 education family & owner managed businesses food 5 motor planning development & construction renewables social housing awards and rankings edit rollits has been recommended as a leader in many fields of law by the law directories chambers and partners and legal 500 . references edit rollits ltd marketing contacts . hoovers . the buildings of john huddersfield pdf . the history press 2009 . amalgamated firms . hull law society . careers in law . student hubs . julian nicholas wild llb . hull and humber mediation group . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rollits llp & oldid 724302820 categories law firms of the united kingdomlaw firms established in 1850hidden categories orphaned articles from may 2013all orphaned articlesarticles with topics of unclear notability from april 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add 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