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Professional Negligence | UK
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Band 1
1 Clyde & Co LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 1 | 3 Years RankedClyde & Co is strong across the board for professional negligence, with regular standout work defending claims in the financial services, legal, construction and insurance sectors. The team offers an international service to clients and attracts high praise from the market for its commercial approach. Its clients include leading law firms, large insurers and Big Four accountancy firms.
1 RPCProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 1 | 3 Years RankedRPC is a top-quality professional negligence group with strength and breadth across a variety of sectors. Its team members advise clients from the legal, financial services and construction industries, and its impressive client list includes most leading insurance companies. Clients benefit from the firm's wider reach, with the team able to offer cost-effective representations through its national offices as well as cross-border expertise because of its international reach.
Band 2
2 CMSProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedThe CMS team specialises in a variety of negligence cases, with particular expertise in insurance, financial and construction-related claims, and further experience handling claims relating to the legal sector. Clients benefit from the firm's international footprint and ability to advise on complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes. The team also engages in work related to high-value market losses and catastrophes.
2 DAC Beachcroft LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedDAC Beachcroft houses an experienced professional negligence team which offers sector-specific advice across a range of areas, including financial and insurance-related matters, as well as claims concerning the construction industry. Its impressive client list includes major insurers, along with leading law firms and organisations in the accountancy and pensions spaces. The team's capability extends regionally and internationally, through the firm's extensive network of offices.
2 Herbert Smith FreehillsProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedHerbert Smith Freehills maintains a strong presence in professional negligence litigation, handling cases that arise from financial services, insurance and legal work, with additional experience in technology and construction matters. The team acts for large corporate groups and leading financial institutions as well as top insurance companies, and also regularly advises an impressive number of leading law firms.2 KennedysProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedKennedys holds a prominent position in the market and is well known for its professional negligence work across a range of sectors, including regularly advising clients on coverage issues. Clients include major insurers and accounting groups. The team offers strong construction-related professional negligence expertise and has further experience in defending high-value claims against brokers and IFAs.
2 Stephenson Harwood LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedStephenson Harwood has a broad-based professional negligence practice which incorporates financial and legal services work. The team takes instructions from both claimants and defendants, and is well versed in the issues that they each face in sensitive disputes. It continues to advise in the arena of pensions-related professional negligence claims.
2 Taylor Wessing LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 2 | 3 Years RankedTaylor Wessing has a talented finance-focused professional negligence team adept at handling some of the largest and most complicated claims and regulatory investigations. It counts major accounting firms among its clients, with particular renown for high-level audit-related work. As well as advising defendant accountancy firms, the team is also capable of advising claimants.
Band 3
3 Hogan LovellsProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedHogan Lovells houses an experienced team with a diverse clientele that includes professional indemnity insurers, as well as law firms and accountancy firms. It is also known for its work on pension-related negligence matters. The team is able to leverage the firm's global network of offices to advise on cross-border disputes.
3 Mayer Brown International LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedMayer Brown fields an impressive professional negligence team which utilises the firm's global footprint to handle major multi-jurisdictional disputes. The team demonstrates strength across a variety of sectors, with particular prowess in complex construction claims. Its client portfolio also includes legal professionals, real estate consultancies and large accountancy firms.
3 Simmons & Simmons LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedSimmons & Simmons houses a versatile team adept at handling a range of negligence cases across the financial, legal and technology sectors. The team benefits from the firm's broader expertise in non-contentious and regulatory insurance matters, and is able to bring this to bear in professional negligence disputes. It also advises leading insurers and law firms on complex multi-jurisdictional cases.
3 WithersProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 3 | 3 Years RankedWithers has a well-regarded team which frequently acts for legal professionals involved in negligence claims, with a focus on advising barristers and the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund. The team also advises claimants making claims against solicitors' firms.
Band 4
4 Browne Jacobson LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 3 Years RankedBrowne Jacobson is recognised for its work on sensitive claims and insurance coverage issues related to barristers and solicitors. Its clientele includes a number of leading mutual and stock professional indemnity insurers.
4 Edwin Coe LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 3 Years RankedEdwin Coe has a highly specialised insurance litigation team that represents clients in claims against insurers. The team also advises brokers on policy coverage issues and compliance, and assists clients with business interruption claims.
4 FieldfisherProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 1 Years RankedFieldfisher has a strong claimant-side professional negligence practice. The team is adept at representing clients in claims concerning financial loss as a result of negligence from professionals such as solicitors, accountants and tax advisers.
4 Penningtons Manches Cooper LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 2 Years RankedPenningtons Manches Cooper is recognised for representing claimants in multiparty cases brought against various professionals, including solicitors and architects. The team is noted for its expertise in handling property-related claims arising from investments and valuations. The firm is also well equipped to handle cross-border disputes.
4 StewartsProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 1 Years RankedStewarts is particularly adept at handling claimant-side professional negligence claims arising from legal, accounting and tax advice. The team also has a growing defendant-side practice, alongside the capability to handle large group actions.
4 Womble Bond Dickinson UK LLPProfessional Negligence2025 | Band 4 | 3 Years RankedWomble Bond Dickinson has a broad practice commended for its work in the legal and construction spheres. The team is experienced in advising insurer clients on claims relating to solicitors and barristers, as well as engineers, planning consultants and construction professionals.