WOODHEAD BIGBY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Notary, Conveyancer / Estates & Trusts
Andrea is an admitted Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Legal Practice Council. She joined the firm in 2018 and practises in the Estates & Trusts and Property departments.
Ayanda is an admitted Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa, and a member of the Legal Practice Council. She joined the firm's property & conveyancing department in 2022.
Ian Johnson is an admitted Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa, and a member of the Legal Practice Council. He joined the firm in 1991 and has many years experience in the property and conveyancing area of practice attending to share block conversions, conventional and sectional title property transactions and property developments, to name a few.
Job Titles:
- Attorney / Litigation and Commercial
James Bigby is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and a member of the Legal Practice Council. James joined the firm in 2010 and has extensive experience in commercial litigation serving a range of individual and corporate clients. He is also the firm's in-house Counsel, regularly appearing in the various courts.
Joanne joined the firm in 1993 and has vast experience in the property and conveyancing practice of the firm covering residential and commercial transfers and related transactions. She is also the Financial Director of Woodhead Bigby Inc.
Margaret Bigby is an admitted Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary Public of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Legal Practice Council.
Margaret has been with the firm since 2010, aside from a few years working in Johannesburg, where she gained valuable experience working in the corporate environment. Margaret has a range of practice areas including high-value commercial and residential property and conveyancing transactions, corporate and commercial compliance, the administration of deceased estates and trusts, and general notarial practice.
Job Titles:
- Editor to the Industrial Law Journal
- Employment Law
Richard joined the firm in 1990 and leads the firm's employment law department, focusing on all matters relating to labour and industrial relations. He is a former president of the South African Society for Labour Law (SASLAW) and has acted as a judge in the Labour Court of South Africa on a number of occasions.
Richard is also a contributing reports editor to the Industrial Law Journal, a leading employment law publication, and drafts the national course notes and lectures students of the School for Legal Practice in labour dispute resolution.
Russell MacDonald is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and a member of the Legal Practice Council.
Russell provides legal services to local and international clients involved in disputes across a range of areas including insurance law, construction law, procurement law and commercial law. He has been with the firm since 2004 and practises in the litigation department.
Scott Bigby is an admitted Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary Public of the High Court of South Africa, and a member of the Legal Practice Council. He joined the firm in 1977 and practised with his father (the late HCS Bigby, original partner of the late Mr TT Woodhead) and is currently the firm's Managing Director.
Scott has extensive experience in a variety of practice areas including commercial and company law, insolvency, civil litigation, arbitration, property and conveyancing, notarial practice and deceased estates and trusts. He heads the commercial department of the firm and advises and sits on a number of trusts and boards of companies.
Scott's son James Bigby, and daughter Margaret Bigby are also practising Attorneys and Directors of Woodhead Bigby Inc.
Job Titles:
- Attorney / Employment Law & Litigation
Vicki is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Legal Practice Council with many years' experience in the Employment Law and Litigation environment.She joined the firm in 2022.
Yugan Govender joined Woodhead Bigby Inc. in 2011 and is the firm's Financial Manager.