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Balfour+Manson LLP’s ‘excellent’ team has experience in offshore matters and fatal injuries. Practice head Fred Tyler and Louise Duffy are ‘good negotiators’, ‘extremely well organised and personable with clients’.

Brodies LLP’s personal injury team ‘always strives to offer its clients the best possible advice’. The group works for a significant number of referrers, such as National Accident Helpline and Accident Advice Helpline. Practice head David Armstrong is ‘very thorough and professional’.

Digby Brown LLP is a specialist personal injury firm with particular expertise in high-value spinal and brain injury claims. Clients praise the ‘excellent’ service. David Wilson has ‘a keen legal mind’, and Fraser Simpson is also recommended.

Thompsons acts solely for pursuers. This ‘strong’ team has a large trade union client base and ‘good case management’ skills. Patrick McGuire and Syd Smith are recommended. Sadly, Frank Maguire passed away in 2011.

Anderson Strathern continues to represent the Royal College of Nursing. Clients rate the firm ‘at the highest level’. Robert Carr is ‘experienced and extremely well respected’, and has ‘a thorough knowledge of the applicable law’ and ‘excellent communication skills’.

Irwin Mitchell is ‘a well-respected law firm, with an excellent reputation’ and ‘experienced handlers at all levels’. The team has particular experience in brain and spinal cord injury cases. Clients include esure and AA Fleet.

Lawford Kidd is a specialist personal injury practice covering a broad range of work, including industrial disease and aviation accidents. David Sandison has experience in union industrial disease work including vibration white finger, silicosis and asthma cases.

Allan McDougall Solicitors’ team, led by Gordon Bathgate, represents many trade unions. Work undertaken includes fatal accident and catastrophic claims, work-related disease cases, and public liability claims.

Drummond Miller LLP has experience across cases involving road traffic accidents, defective products, and spinal and head injuries.

HBJ Claim Solutions LLP acts for some of the largest insurers and legal expenses insurers in the market, including Aviva and DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Limited. Alistair Duff ‘excels’ and is ‘well organised’.

Harper Macleod LLP acts for a large number of insurers including RBS Insurance, Tesco Insurance and Direct Line Insurance. Elizabeth Mitchell heads the team.

Russell Jones & Walker, part of Slater & Gordon Lawyers has particular experience in severe injury cases. Stuart Cochran heads the practice.

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