Russell Kennedy has added new principal (partner equivalent) Andrew Parlour and special counsel Chris Pollard to the firm’s senior ranks.

Parlour was promoted to principal on July 1, and is a member of the firm’s corporate and commercial team. He has been working at Russell Kennedy since mid-2007 and is admitted to practice in Victoria and in England and Wales.

Pollard joins Russell Kennedy’s workplace relations, employment and safety team from Hentys Lawyers where he ran the employment practice for three years. Before moving to Melbourne in 1997 he worked at Lempriere Abbot Mcleod Solicitors in South Australia.