Professional Services

Our leading professional services team provide bespoke advice against negligence claims, regulatory proceedings as well as offering risk management and support.

Providing bespoke advice to professional services firms worldwide

Our leading professional services team specialises in professional liability matters and defends claims of alleged professional negligence against a wide variety of professionals including lawyers, accountants, architects, surveyors, company directors, finance and insurance brokers and healthcare professionals.

We support professional services firms and networks of all sizes. Our focus on each of the major professions enables us to understand the commercial, reputational and regulatory pressures each client faces, and to provide targeted risk management and other advice.

Our team has extensive experience of handling regulatory, disciplinary and investigatory proceedings on behalf of all professions. Our lawyers are adept at guiding clients through the particular challenges presented by parallel civil and disciplinary proceedings, including those which involve multiple jurisdictions.

Our Professional Services Work

  • All
  • UK & Europe
  • Breach of copyright claims

    Claims for breach of copyright by companies where a Web developer has used copyrighted images when designing a website without paying the appropriate licence fee

    United Kingdom

    Claims for repayment of fees due to dissatisfactory work

    Claims for repayment of fees where the work done by the Insured has proved to be of a dissatisfactory quality

    United Kingdom

    Community care and development industries advice

    Advising fostering and adoption charities and residents associations, including in relation to service charge and injury claims.

    United Kingdom

    Copyright infringement claims

    Claims for infringement of copyright and designs rights where it was alleged that the website designed by the Insured was similar to that of the claimant

    United Kingdom

    Failed installation of new IT system

    Failure by an IT systems installation expert to install a new IT system for a firm of solicitors that was 'fit for purpose'

    United Kingdom

    Failed software programme by IT programmer

    Failure by an IT programmer to provide a software programme which provided a contact management system for their client

    United Kingdom

    Negligence claims alleging incorrect coding of website shopping cart

    Claims for negligence where the Insured had failed to correctly code the shopping cart on a website used for the sale of the claimants' product, resulting in items being purchased for a quarter of the price

    United Kingdom

    Professional recruitment claims

    Advising on claims arising out of the supply of individuals to professional firms and companies, and representing a recruitment industry lobbying group

    United Kingdom

    Website created by IT website developer failing client's specifications

    Failure by an IT website developer to create a bespoke website in accordance with the specifications requested by the client

    United Kingdom
  • Breach of copyright claims

    Claims for breach of copyright by companies where a Web developer has used copyrighted images when designing a website without paying the appropriate licence fee

    United Kingdom

    Claims for repayment of fees due to dissatisfactory work

    Claims for repayment of fees where the work done by the Insured has proved to be of a dissatisfactory quality

    United Kingdom

    Community care and development industries advice

    Advising fostering and adoption charities and residents associations, including in relation to service charge and injury claims.

    United Kingdom

    Copyright infringement claims

    Claims for infringement of copyright and designs rights where it was alleged that the website designed by the Insured was similar to that of the claimant

    United Kingdom

    Failed installation of new IT system

    Failure by an IT systems installation expert to install a new IT system for a firm of solicitors that was 'fit for purpose'

    United Kingdom

    Failed software programme by IT programmer

    Failure by an IT programmer to provide a software programme which provided a contact management system for their client

    United Kingdom

    Negligence claims alleging incorrect coding of website shopping cart

    Claims for negligence where the Insured had failed to correctly code the shopping cart on a website used for the sale of the claimants' product, resulting in items being purchased for a quarter of the price

    United Kingdom

    Professional recruitment claims

    Advising on claims arising out of the supply of individuals to professional firms and companies, and representing a recruitment industry lobbying group

    United Kingdom

    Website created by IT website developer failing client's specifications

    Failure by an IT website developer to create a bespoke website in accordance with the specifications requested by the client

    United Kingdom

Our Professional Services team

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford

Partner

Mark Beswetherick
Mark Beswetherick

Partner

Anousheh Bromfield
Anousheh Bromfield

Partner

Anthony Brown
Anthony Brown

Partner

Fergal Cathie
Fergal Cathie

Partner

Tim Crockford
Tim Crockford

Partner

Dr. Radosław Góral
Dr. Radosław Góral

Partner

Athol Gordon
Athol Gordon

Partner

Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison

Partner

Rebecca Kelly
Rebecca Kelly

Managing Partner – Australia

Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller

Partner

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