Meet the Partners

David Greenfield is the firm's senior partner and a solicitor with over 25 years of experience specialising in wills, probate, trusts, powers of attorney and Court of Protection applications, advising the elderly generally and property matters.

David joined the firm as a trainee in 1978. On qualification he specialised mainly in property matters but within a few years he took over responsibility for the firm's Wills and Probate department whilst continuing to deal with executors sales for some years. He now acts in a supervisory capacity to the firm's property department.

David is both a member of the Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners (STEP) and the Law society's probate section. He is also a Court of Protection Panel Deputy. In his spare time David is a Church of England lay reader and a member of a local running club. He has run seven marathons for charity, the last of which was in the London Marathon 2011.

Paul Verlander is a solicitor with over 20 years of experience specialising in civil litigation. Paul has extensive experience of all areas of civil litigation including personal injury claims, landlord and tenant matters, employment matters, commercial debt recovery and commercial disputes. He also deals with contentious probate matters and general civil claims.

Paul is regularly instructed by both employers and employees in relation to employment matters and he deals with section 203 compromise agreements as well as other areas of employment law. Paul also advises regularly in relation to the landlord and tenant situations and he has deals with the County Court possessions proceedings in respect of which he has extensive experience. Having dealt with claims for compensation arising out of accidents for many years Paul deals with claims for compensation arising out of personal injury claims ranging from minor whiplash injuries to more serious road traffic accidents.

Paul has over 20 years experience of divorce and family matters and the clinical negligence claims acting for both claimants and defendants and he acts in a supervisory capacity to the firm's family department and the firm's clinical negligence department.

Paul is a member of APIL, and he is a great believer in alternative dispute resolution including mediation. In his spare time Paul enjoys playing golf badly and hiking.

Gavin Cooper is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, who started his Legal career some 35 years ago with a small firm in Lincolns Inn Fields where for the first few two or three years, he carried out a variety of tasks from Debt Collection to Wills, Probate, Matrimonial and Property. Having realised that he hadn't quite got the hang of dealing with the collection of debts - due to the fact that he listened to every hard luck story told to him by the debtor and getting bored with disputes in divorces over such things as to who was going to keep the Christmas decorations, he concentrated his attention on Property and has continued to do so for over 30 years.

In 1979 Gavin moved to a large City practice and spent 3 years specialising in Commercial Property, acting for one of the UK's largest Property Companies, an International Confectioner and one of Britain's leading Insurance brokers which gave him invaluable experience.

The opportunity to increase his experience saw Gavin move to Carpenters in 1982 and he has remained there ever since, as he found he particularly liked dealing with his clients personally. Gavin now concentrates on all types of property transactions including dealing with a high turnover of Residential Conveyancing, Business Acquisitions, New Business Leases, the preparation of Leases and Renewals, Investment Purchases for a large number of private investors, Refinancing of Property, Acquisition of Building Land and disposals, preparation and approval of Option Agreements, Advice for Management Companies and Residents' Associations and the Buying and Selling of Licensed Premises.

Away from work, Gavin juggles family life, including the taxiing duties for his three children, with many interests including his 47 year support for his beloved football team "the Saints", the Chairmanship of the Junior section of the Old Midwhitgiftians RFC, a governor of one of the Local Grammar schools. His former association with Wallington and Carshalton Round Table still sees him attend 41 club and being involved with the Carshalton Fireworks and Carnival and despite the handicap of not being able to play, sees him hacking around the local Golf courses occasionally.

Patricia Hogg has been practicing Family Law for over 14 years, the past 11 with Carpenter & Co, successfully dealing with a full range of Family matters, from matrimonial and relationship breakdowns to issues surrounding children.

Family breakdown can be an extremely difficult and an emotional period in a person’s life. Patricia's aim has always been to provide a friendly and efficient service to her clients. With her sympathetic and caring approach to all family matters, she continually takes care to provide the understanding and sensitive approach essential to help steer her clients through what can be an immensely stressful and unsettling time. Patricia has constantly maintained an excellent reputation for being cost effective and providing high-quality family work and as a member of Resolution, an organisation of specialist family lawyers committed to a constructive approach to the practice of family law, and her commitment to the Resolution Code of Practice, an overwhelming majority of her cases are settled by agreement, thereby avoiding the need to attend Court or even attend a final hearing.

Outside of work, Patricia is interested in international travel, cooking, badminton and squash.