Our Team

Ian Johnson

Director, Solicitor and Head of Litigation

Ian is a solicitor, head of the Litigation department director at the firm.

Ian has over twenty five years’ commercial litigation experience, thirteen years with Cole and Cole (now Blake Morgan), ten of which as Partner in charge of the commercial litigation team and four years with Paul Davidson Taylor as Managing Partner of the Reading office.

Ian has extensive experience advising in all aspects of commercial dispute. His particular areas of expertise are fraud, contentious insolvency and contractual disputes.

Tim Clift

Director, Head of Conveyancing

Tim is a solicitor, head of the Conveyancing Department and director.

Tim has over thirty years’ experience as property and commercial lawyer. He has worked exclusively in the Reading area and has been a partner of two other local firms before joining Johnsons Solicitors in October 2014. He has extensive conveyancing experience in both residential and commercial matters and also advises on landlord and tenant matters.

Tim uses a “no nonsense” approach to the law and is mindful of the benefit of achieving value for money for his large and loyal client base.

Razza Hameed

Director & Consultant Solicitor

Razza is a Director and joined the firm in 2019, after relocating from London to Reading. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Partner at a High Street firm in London.

Having qualified as a solicitor in 2003, Razza is a property law specialist dealing with all aspects of Property law, ranging from buying, selling and re-mortgaging residential property to dealing with commercial transactions involving commercial leases, business acquisitions and company purchases.

He also has experience in dealing with shared ownership transactions and lease extensions. Razza also has experience in dealing with Landlord and Tenant litigation, involving matters such acting for Landlords in evicting Tenants in both residential and commercial premises and acting for Tenants in defending possession proceedings.

Mohammad Imran

Director & Consultant Licensed Conveyancer

He has experience in dealing with residential, commercial property and private client matters.

He specialises in Residential and Commercial Property law and has extensive experience in this area of Law. Mohammad covers all aspects of residential Conveyancing and Commercial Property, including sales, purchases, re-mortgages, transfers of equity, lease extensions and bridging matters. He has experience in both, freehold and leasehold transactions, help to buy, new builds and shared ownership schemes.

Clients return to Mohammad as a testament to his efficiency and excellent client care.

Francesca Hiscock

Chartered Legal Executive

Francesca is a Chartered Legal Executive.

Francesca has over thirteen years’ litigation experience and joined Johnsons in 2003. Having qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive her work covers a range of areas of law including debt recovery, factoring company guarantor actions, directors’ qualification, insolvency, bankruptcy and winding up. This includes both contested and non-contested actions.

Rebecca Rushby

Licensed Conveyancer

Rebecca joined Johnsons in 2017 and is working towards her qualification. Rebecca has a good grounding in residential conveyancing and works under the guidance of Tim Clift.

Alison Somerville

Conveyancing Assistant

Alison is Tim’s conveyancing assistant.

Andrea Boswell

Receptionist

Andrea is a Receptionist.

Andrea is one of our receptionists.  She joined the team in 2022 having previously worked in finance.  She will answer your call and warmly greet you when you visit us