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40 years for Derek Reed
Newton Abbot solicitor, Derek Reed completes 40 years with WBW Solicitors this month.
Derek who is now a consultant with the firm said "I can still remember my first day at what was then Woollcombe Watts & Scrivener in Lloyds Bank Chambers. I was given a table and a chair in a dusty file store and was paid the princely sum of £5 per week as an articled clerk.
"I received very good traiing in articles from the partners of the firm at the time, Murray Watts, David Jervois and John Scrivener and I became fully qualified in 1971."
The firm gradually expanded and opened offices in Totnes, Chagford, Bovey Tracey, Kingsteignton and Torquay After working in Lloyds Bank Chambers until 1988, the firm took a big step forward and moved to its present Newton Abbot office in Church House, having spent considerable sums converting the old United Reformed Church into modern offices.
Derek said "I've thoroughly enjoyed my career in law and I've been lucky enough to meet a very wide range of clients and deal with challenging and varied work throughout my career.