EAST Anglian law firm Ashton Graham has welcomed three new recruits.Kate Dodsworth, who studied at St Mary's College, Durham University and the College of Law, York, joins the firm's employment law team.

EAST Anglian law firm Ashton Graham has welcomed three new recruits.

Kate Dodsworth, who studied at St Mary's College, Durham University and the College of Law, York, joins the firm's employment law team.

She will specialise in all areas of employment law, including non-contentious advice and employment tribunal litigation.

Geoff Hazlewood, who joins the firm's corporate department at Bury St Edmunds, comes from a London firm. Since qualifying in 2000, he has worked in Ipswich and London, and welcomes his return to Suffolk where he grew up.

He specialises in company acquisitions, banking and corporate finance, and has advised on AIM flotations and public company takeovers.

Richard Booth, who joins the commercial property department at Bury St Edmunds, arrives from Ruston & Lloyd in Newmarket, where he has spent the last three years. He has also spent time working in a well-known law firm in Norwich.

Specialising in a wide variety of commercial transactions, he has gained an in-depth knowledge of acting for both landlords and tenants in the drafting and checking of commercial leases, sales and acquisitions, licences, easements and developments.