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Professional Negligence - North East & Yorkshire

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Mills & Reeve is known for its focus on defending legal professionals and their insurers. The team in Leeds also works on claims involving a range of other groups including accountants, construction professionals and technology professionals. It is able to pool resources from its national network in order to provide a full service to its clients.

Work Highlights

  • Mills & Reeve advised a firm of solicitors caught up in a chain of property transactions where it later emerged that the purported seller of the property was a fraudster who had given a false identity.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Neil Howes
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Band 1
Neil Howes has a varied professional negligence practice, with areas of focus including claims against solicitors, engineers and insurance brokers.

Neil is very approachable and friendly.

Neil is just brilliant.

He is a terrific solicitor and very good at handling clients and making them realise that he is focused on what the client wants. He is very empathetic.

He has impeccable judgement. I really enjoy working with him.

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Liam Burnett
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Band 3

Liam Burnett focuses his practice on defending solicitors, technology companies and financial services providers against professional negligence claims.

Liam Burnett is an excellent operator.

Liam is incredibly insightful and a wonderful team player. He is very collaborative, supportive and a very nice person to work with.

There is something special about Liam. He gets things quickly and is very commercial. He understands what you want very quickly.

He has a strong legal mind, an excellent commercial approach and a fantastic ability to build up rapport with clients.

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Professional Negligence

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Neil Howes
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Liam Burnett
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