Trainee Solicitor, in the Commercial Dispute Resolution team

Ellie is a Trainee Solicitor in Nash & Co’s Commercial Dispute Resolution team, having joined the firm in April 2026. She previously worked as an Associate Paralegal at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP, where she specialised in defending claims on behalf of major corporate clients across a wide range of civil disputes, varying in value and complexity. During this time, Ellie developed extensive experience managing a high-volume caseload of both pre-action and litigated matters, acting for clients across the following sectors: energy, finance, retail, and telecommunications.

Her prior experience includes:

Managing litigation strategy and ensuring procedural compliance from early pre-action stages through to trial.
Drafting pleadings, applications, witness evidence, hearing preparations, and instructions to counsel.
Attending mediations and contributing to commercially focused settlement.
Embracing legal-tech by implementing document automation initiatives to streamline fixed-fee workflows.

Ellie’s core experience arears include:

Civil Procedure Rules
Contractual Disputes
Consumer Rights & Consumer Credit
Broker Commission & Motor Finance
Discrimination and Data Protection

Ellie now brings this technical and procedural experience to Nash & Co’s CDR team, supporting team head, Jamie Carr, and managing her own developing caseload, as she works towards qualifying as a Solicitor.

Ellie-Rose Cloney

ercloney@nash.co.uk
01752 827044

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Breakups and property disputes

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Credit Control: 10 Steps for Setting up a System

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The economic impact of the recent lockdowns has made for an unusually challenging last 18 months. Businesses and workers have had to adapt, with companies evolving their revenues streams and many employers changing sectors. In the face of this upheaval, and certainly, with the coming to an end of the government’s furlough scheme, it is important for businesses to remain savvy to the options open to them in protecting themselves.

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Update of The Insolvency Bill

On the 20 May 2020, the Government introduced the Corporate and Insolvency Governance Bill. As with most of these type of documents, they’re not the easiest of bedtime reading! We therefore wanted to let you have a much easier to read update of The Insolvency Bill.

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Debts and disputes and the ‘new normal’

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