There was a self-contained local firm of solicitors in the marketplace in Saxmundham throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Known as "J Noel Cooper and Williamson", this was under the proprietorship of the late Wilfred Williamson until his retirement in the 1970s. The firm then entered a 25 year marriage with Jackaman Smith and Mulley, the two-hundred-year-old Ipswich firm. Then, in 1999