New team members include senior solicitor Scott Smid and legal executive Órla Eves.

Mr Smid, who joins from a large regional English law firm, brings specialist expertise in commercial litigation, while Ms Eves supports the team’s debt recovery practice.

Joe Sweeney has been promoted to solicitor following his completion of the firm’s trainee solicitor programme and will provide support to the personal injury team.

Wilson Nesbitt has also welcomed Helen Osborne as a legal apprentice through Ulster University’s degree-level apprenticeship in law programme.

Neil Cahill, partner and head of the dispute resolution team, said: “The past few months have been a very exciting period of growth for our dispute resolution team.

“We are delighted to welcome Scott, Órla and Helen to our growing team and we congratulate Joe on his recent qualification to solicitor.

“Having grown to a team of eight, we have significantly enhanced our resilience and capacity to support increasing numbers of both individual and corporate clients on a full range of litigation and dispute resolution matters.”

Mr Cahill added that the firm was “pleased to be one of a small number of law firms in NI to welcome a legal apprentice to our team this year through Ulster University’s Legal Apprenticeship in Law programme”.

The programme is “an exciting opportunity to invest in the future generation of legal talent while offering an alternative route to the legal profession for aspiring solicitors”, he said.