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At a glittering awards ceremony at Crowne Plaza in Plymouth on 28 November 2025 we were named The Start-Up Business of the Year 2025 in the West Country Women Awards. This is a huge deal, as it means we are the best start-up in the entire West Country, including Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. Lisa picked up the award for her approach towards community, inclusion and revolutionising the way legal work is marketed and sold locally and nationally. The prize comes with a

It's been a bumper couple of weeks for Stutt Associates. On 16 October Lisa (and Pete the Pasty) took to the road to attend the West Country Women Awards Finalist Announcement at Powderham Castle in Exeter. Whilst there, she scooped one of five finalist spots for The Start-Up Business of the Year award. Just 11 days later Stutt Associates was shortlisted as one of five finalists for another award: The Notty's Best New Business Award. We are so excited to be shortlisted for

For the third quarter of this year (and making it a hat trick of every single quarter since the firm began) Stutt Associates' Lisa Haywood has been ranked in the TBD Marketing Legal Linkedinfluencer list of the UK's top 60 influential legal voices from independent firms. TBD Marketing says: "Some people talk about getting things done. Lisa Haywood just gets on with it. This quarter she assembled what sounded like the entire contents of Cornwall's Ikea - and still found tim

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