Legal malpractice


Our experienced legal malpractice team act for the majority of participating insurers. We're regularly appointed on complex, multi-party, high-value claims and coverage disputes.

We act for all sizes of law firm and barristers, understanding the different approaches required.

As a full service law firm, we have direct and immediate access to leading specialists across sectors, including corporate, employment, intellectual property, personal injury, matrimonial, real estate, tax, property, and wills and trusts.

We have a market-leading fraud recovery team dealing with the recovery of funds following client account thefts (both cyber and internal), often tracing them to multiple jurisdictions with the assistance of our international network of firms.

Our experience

Reported cases we have acted on include:

  • Dreamvar (UK) Litigation [2018] (Court of Appeal) [link to article]

  • Ahmad v Clive G Wood [2018]

  • Dunhill v Walter Brook & Others [2017] (CA)

  • BPC Hotels & Others v Max Mallin & Others (2016)

  • Minkin v Landsberg [2015] (CA)

  • AIB v Redler [2014] (Supreme Court)

Examples of our work include:

  • Dealing with the asset recovery of over £3million stolen from client accounts.

  • Advising on a matrimonial under-settlement claim, potentially valued in excess of £3million.

  • Dealing with the rectification of an agreement to avoid a multi-million pound exposure.

  • Acting on various pension advice claims.

  • Striking out a claim put at over £1million, on abuse of process grounds.

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Our expertise

Insurance claims and disputes:

Accountants, auditors and insolvency practitioners
Brokers & intermediaries
Civil fraud and asset recovery
Construction risks
Contingency and A&H insurance
Cyber
Directors & officers
Employment disputes
Fine art, specie and jeweller’s block
Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs)
Intellectual property insurance disputes
Legal malpractice
Life & protection insurance
Managing general agents
Medical malpractice
Pension trustee liability
Personal injury
Political risk and trade credit insurance
Political violence, terrorism and war risk insurance
Professional disciplinary
Property
Technology disputes
Title indemnity insurance – real estate litigation

Corporate, commercial and finance:

Regulatory capital
Transactional liability

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