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Professional Negligence: Mainly Defendant - Midlands

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What the Team is Known For

Mills & Reeve has a highly skilled defendant practice that deals with a range of local and national claims, including those against solicitors, brokers, construction workers and accountants. The Birmingham-based team assists professionals with issues relating to policy and coverage and also offers risk minimisation training for law firms.

Work Highlights

  • Mills & Reeve advised on the defence of a claim for over £250,000 for a top ten firm of accountants arising out of their handling of tax and general accounting for a national professional services firm.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Angus Turner
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Angus Turner is particularly renowned for his ability to defend claims raised against solicitors and those relating to contract drafting, litigation conduct and insolvency procedures.

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Neil J Frankland
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Neil Frankland is highly adept at defending clients in the construction industry against a range of negligence allegations. He frequently assists with cases concerning negligent design, particularly in relation to cladding issues.

Neil's commercial ability is extraordinary.

Neil is always on hand. He continues to provide superior quality advice.

Neil is an extremely effective commercial operator.

Neil Frankland always gets the deal done.

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David Gooding
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David Gooding primarily represents insurers in claims relating to the activity of solicitors and accountants. His caseload includes work relating to property transactions, trusts and fraud.

David Gooding is fantastically organised, extremely able and one of the most switched-on solicitors I have ever worked with.

When it comes to peace of mind and knowing you've got the right person on board and to give you comfort, David is my first port of call. When you need to de-stress, you call David.

I can trust David to get his arms round everything we need and give us comfort that the next steps are the right next steps.

David has a great brain and knows his subject inside out.

David is first class.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Midlands

Professional Negligence: Mainly Defendant

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Angus Turner
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Band 1
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Neil J Frankland
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David Gooding
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Band 2