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Flint Bishop (formerly Lupton Fawcett) said in an announcement on its website that Rebecca Burrows has been promoted to Partner and installed in a new post of Legal Counsel, dated 2 November 2026.
Key points
- Flint Bishop said the move strengthens its senior in-house legal capability as the firm continues to grow nationally.
- According to the firm, the newly created Legal Counsel position is intended to give its leadership team and wider business dedicated senior in-house legal support.
- The firm said Ms Burrows will advise on the legal side of its strategy, growth plans, investments and acquisitions, and will also handle major commercial contracts, tenders, panel appointments, disputes and potential liabilities.
- Flint Bishop said the Legal Counsel role sits apart from, but alongside, its existing Compliance function, with regulatory duties such as SRA requirements, anti-money laundering, regulatory reporting, complaints and COLP responsibilities staying with the relevant compliance role holders.
- The firm said Ms Burrows joined in 2015, qualified as a solicitor in 2020, was promoted to Associate in 2022 and to Senior Associate in 2024, before her latest move to Partner.
Scope of the new post
Flint Bishop said Ms Burrows will help shape governance arrangements for new business structures, services and initiatives, and will offer the firm her reading of the law and broader strategic input on matters it described as complex or novel. The firm said she will liaise closely with its Head of Compliance and COLP on issues that call for legal judgement, strategic input or specialist expertise, so that legal, regulatory and commercial viewpoints are brought together.
Career history
Flint Bishop said Ms Burrows progressed from Paralegal to Trainee Solicitor before qualifying as a solicitor in 2020, when she became the firm’s first Practice Management Solicitor, a role in which she worked on a number of confidential and strategically significant projects. She was promoted to Associate in 2022 and to Senior Associate in 2024. The firm said her move to Partner comes 11 years after she first joined, completing a path from Paralegal and Trainee through Solicitor, Associate and Senior Associate to Partner. Flint Bishop said the promotion recognises her contribution to the firm and its wider aim of building legal careers and offering staff routes to progress over the long term.