The Legal 500

Irwin Mitchell is unlike any other law firm. It is unique, both in its culture and its approach to business. A nationally acclaimed law firm with a strong international capability, the firm offers a broad range of legal services to national and international organisations and institutions, small and medium-sized businesses and private individuals.

The firm:

The firm operates in a two-tier corporate structure with Irwin Mitchell Holdings Ltd controlling Irwin Mitchell LLP and its subsidiaries. Irwin Mitchell LLP has an established international office network covering Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield, as well as the Spanish cities of Malaga and Madrid. It also operates in Scotland through Irwin Mitchell Scotland LLP with an office in Glasgow.

The firm has a truly distinctive profile with its reputation for progress and growth, underpinned by its brand values: innovation, responsiveness, solutions and value. Understanding the competitive and economic benefits that size brings, the firm is committed to continued growth and its vision, ‘to exceed the expectations of every client’, ensures that it continues to strive for constant improvement.

Types of work undertaken: One of the largest law firms in the UK, Irwin Mitchell provides a wide range of legal services with particular strengths in litigation throughout the practice.

The firm remains one of the leading personal injury and medical negligence litigation practices in the UK. It offers a wide range of services covering all the key injury types from road traffic accidents to product liability claims and serious head/spinal injury cases.

The firm is also one of the UK’s leading suppliers of commoditised legal services to the insurance, banking and retail sectors and it aims to become the first choice ‘volume outsource provider’ for companies and institutions who offer their customers legal and associated services. It also offers mortgage lending, commercial lending and recovery services.

One of the biggest litigation practices in the UK, Irwin Mitchell’s highly specialised teams deliver sophisticated, heavyweight contentious services in several key specialisms to businesses and individuals in the fields of commercial and public law. The firm has established itself as a ‘defender of the rights of individuals’, questioning existing legislation and helping clients to gain access to justice.

The firm provides a wide range of high-quality non-contentious legal services from employment and intellectual property to corporate finance, commercial contracts and property to companies, organisations and other institutions.

Irwin Mitchell provides a comprehensive range of private client services including family, conveyancing, wills, trusts and probate and court of protection. In addition to delivering specialist advice to the individual, the firm also provides volume private client services to customers, employees or members of financial institutions and other large organisations.

The firm’s investment management business (IM Asset Management Ltd) provides specialist fund management services for private individuals. It acts for a wide range of clients including high- net-worth individuals and personal injury claimants.

The firm also owns Coris UK Ltd, which is part of the Coris Group, a worldwide network providing services to a range of independent clients in the travel and insurance industries.

Irwin Mitchell owns a full service DCA (debt collection agency), Ascent Collections Ltd, which covers all types of debt across the UK. It works in two service areas: Ascent Collections (customer contacting, litigation and debt purchasing) and Ascent Contact (debt counselling and claims support services).

The firm is renowned for operating at the cutting-edge of litigation, and believes in offering its clients innovative solutions to legal and associated problems that add real value. It is one of the only national law firms to provide such a diverse range of services and has a strong customer service culture and a high level of client retention.

Number of UK partners 151
Number of other UK fee-earners 900+