Taylor Walton LLP

Managing Partner: Dermot Carey
Number of partners: 30
Number of other fee earners: 51
Number of Offices: 3 (Harpenden, Luton, St Albans)

• Thornycroft House, 107 Holywell Hill, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1HQ - 01727 845245 - [email protected]
• TW House, Station Approach, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4SP - 01582 765111 - [email protected]
• 28-44 Alma Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2PL - 01582 731161 - [email protected]

Firm Overview:
We are a highly reputable, multi-service regional law firm with offices in St Albans, Harpenden and Luton. Our Partner-led teams work with clients across the UK ranging from FTSE100 and FTSE350 companies, public and private sector organisations, charities and high-net worth individuals. We offer legal expertise across a number of specialist sectors including agricultural, construction and engineering, hospitality, food and drink, healthcare, recruitment, education, retail and both residential and commercial property.

We boast an excellent staff retention rate and, thanks to our focus on creating an outstanding place to work, have an average length of service that is unrivalled within the region. Our stable talent brings many inherent benefits for our clients, including service continuity, depth of knowledge and expertise that is hard to replicate.

Main Areas of Practice: 

• Commercial Litigation - James Carpenter
• Commercial Property - James Cottrell
• Corporate - Simon Hughes
• Commercial - Peter Kouwenberg
• Employment - Alec Colson
• Family - Ben Twitchen
• Private Client - Alex Drake
• Residential Property - Caroline Hume

Key Features:
■ Being the firm of choice for many referrers locally and in London. The firm regularly acquires business from other professional firms in London, being recognised as a cost effective alternative to city-based advisers.
■ Offering a personalised, highly empathetic and technically excellent service to a diverse range of clients in a cost-effective and highly efficient manner.
■ Taking a pragmatic approach to complex issues, working with many high net worth clients (including business owners, farmers and landed families) often across generations and increasingly across jurisdictions, to resolve current matters whilst proactively identifying areas of future support.
■ A clarity of communication, expectation management and responsiveness that is unrivalled within the region.
■ Focusing on the development of home grown talent, creating teams with unrivalled longevity and experience. The firm offers a range of skills that delivers the right work at the appropriate level for each individual client, from paralegal right through to partner. Whilst many local firms have grown through merger or acquisition, this firm has seen stable organic growth over a number of years with an excellent staff retention rate.