THURSFIELDS, the Kidderminster-based solicitors' firm, has appointed Julie Goodman as an associate.

Born in Kidderminster, she originally joined the firm in 1985 as a PA to Mark Thursfield, grandson of the founder, before training in law while working full-time, and was admitted as a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in 1997.

A resident of Stourport, she left Thursfields in 2000 to join a large international firm of lawyers in Birmingham and returned in 2003.