National firm Hammonds has bolstered its property team with the hire of Nick Armitage from local rival Lupton Fawcett. Armitage will join Hammonds' Leeds office as a partner. Armitage is the latest in a string of hires to the group, which has expanded in the last six months with the addition of William Lawrence from Finers Stephens Innocent and Helen Hoath from Hill Dickinson. The pair head Hammonds' property litigation teams in London and Manchester respectively.