Harriet Strevens

Senior Legal Advisor

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What can I do for you

Harriet has worked at Mills & Reeve since 2014 having previously been a partner in the insurance group of another major law firm.

Harriet uses her business experience and insight to assist professional clients facing litigation. They typically include solicitors, construction professionals, brokers and accountants. She has an impressive portfolio of experience within the professional indemnity arena including fraud and asset recovery. 

In her role as senior legal adviser, she supports the insurance sector as a whole providing legal and insurance business updates training and development. 

What do others say

Harriet has been described as a "formidable opponent" in the legal journals at the same time as maintaining the empathy and intuition to handle sensitive issues well.

Supporting your ambitions

Adopting her straightforward, fresh and plain speaking approach enables clients to experience litigation in a less complicated and confusing way. Clients are attracted to her ability to trouble shoot at short notice on a variety of professional indemnity issues.

Harriet is known by insurer clients as imaginative and tenacious. During multi–party, lengthy and expensive litigation, her firm but fair approach to negotiation enabled a settlement for clients without an increase in reserves set 10 years earlier.

Her knowledge and leadership skills leave clients feeling confident they are in the right hands.

What else should you know?

Harriet has a particular interest in mental health issues affecting young children.

She has been involved in creating, ongoing development and production of the insurance webinar series, Covertalk, since its inception; actively involved at seminars, including the Professional Indemnity Forum Conference in Cambridge, an innovation champion at Mills & Reeve, and remains a keen ballet dancer in her spare time.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”