A law firm’s structure and practice

Professional Indemnity Insurance
1.3 Resources and Specialist Knowledge

law firm, is submitting a tender for the provision of

legal services to a local authority. In the first section of the tender document, the firm’s structure and breadth of expertise is set out. Typically, descriptions of law firms’ practice areas and expertise are in strongly positive language.

including 38 partners, 62 solicitors, 12 other lawyers, 14 legal

executives, and 10 trainee solicitors, in addition to clerical, secretarial and, support staff.

Commercial Property incorporates Public Sector, Constructions, Planning and Environment; Company

Commercial comprises Banking, Project Finance, Procurement, Employment and Pensions; Private Client offers Wills, Trusts and Probate, Tax Planning, and Residential Conveyancing.
Dedicated specialist dispute resolution services are provided within each of the respective areas.
Services: We provide all the services you require. The head of our Projects team, Jan Stephenson, will lead the team providing legal services to you.

provided full details of our current professional indemnity cover in

our Pre-Qualification Questionnaire(PPQ). The terms of our cover are reviewed annually.

and Structure: Each of our departments contains specialist partner-led teams

ensuring that we are able to resource high quality specialist knowledge and provide comprehensive service to our clients. Further details of our Project Team are set out at below.
Commitment: We are committed to anticipating our clients’ needs and meeting them. Fundamental to this is the commitment of each team leader to understand thoroughly the priorities and business of our clients.

significant investment in our information technology systems in order to

give the support and resources that our lawyers need. Our system unable us to transfer know-how into a searchable database using links to cases and legislation, to monitor workloads, measure outputs, and plan ahead more effectively. The stability and security is our system is of particular importance to our clients and to us.

Projects team is head up by Jan Stephenson and brings

together specialist in infrastructure, construction, energy planning, and public sector. The team are able to draw on relevant expertise from elsewhere in the firm when required and have exclusive access to a dedicated Professional Support Lawyer.