Savage Jooste & Adams - The company

Savage Jooste & Adams has been in existence in various forms since 1919, a period of more than 85 years. The founder of the firm was the late Gerald Savage,who started his practice under the name G R Savage soon after his admission as an Attorney on 10 July 1919.

In 1930 Joe Page joined him as a partner and the firm became known as Savage & Page. This partnership continued for 15 years and in 1945, Piet Jooste joined the firm as a partner, followed 7 years later by Neville Adams. The name of the firm was then changed to Savage Jooste & Adams. The practice was incorporated in 1978 and has since then been known as Savage Jooste & Adams Incorporated.

There are at present eleven directors of Savage Jooste & Adams Incorporated, an associate director, one associate and seven professional assistants - a professional compliment of nineteen, plus, as part of its industry training commitment, twenty-two candidate attorneys. The Departments are the following:

1.   Property and Conveyancing Department

• Marita Swanepoel
• Marleen Gresse
• Corli van Niekerk
• Kaizer Makole
• Boitumelo Kgoebane

2.   Commercial and Intellectual Property Department

• Jonathan Keir Hendey
• Hennie de Swardt
• Abdul Osman

3.   Liabilities & Professional Indemnity Department

• Wayne Forrester
• Stephan Booyens
• Liza van Staden
• Natalie Marshall

4.   Personal Injury Department

• Rob Hayes
• Kaizer Makole

5.   General and Family Litigation, Debt Collection and Estates Department

• Tina Lefteris-Kartoudes

6.   Insurance Department

• Pieter Viljoen
• Markus Haasbroek
• Alett Nel
• Louis Kotze

7.   Labour/Commercial Litigation Department

• Marius Van Staden

8.   Johannesburg Branch Office

• Adrienne Dale
• Mienkie van Dyk