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Russell-Cooke is a Top 100 London legal firm with 110 partners and solicitors. Its highly regarded specialist lawyers, breadth of expertise and mix of commercial, private and public sector clients reflect the complex legal needs of contemporary London. Many of the firm’s teams are leaders in their fields, with peer-group accolades in areas as diverse as commercial property, professional regulation, crime and childcare law.
The firm: Pursuing its strategy of sustainable development, the firm has expanded through a combination of organic growth and mergers. It has extended its breadth but retained a strong focus on service quality and a principled commitment to a proportion of publicly-funded work.
London’s demanding businesses, public organisations and professionals are attracted by the firm’s combination of serious expertise, unstuffy style and value-for-money fees. Its clients are hugely diverse, reflecting its range of work. The firm has a reputation as the ‘lawyers’ lawyers’, with a client base including the Solicitors Regulation Authority, The Magistrates Association, ILEX and many barristers’ chambers. Russell-Cooke’s ability to tackle complex, multi-dimensional cases means that a significant proportion of its work comes from referrals by other solicitors.
Russell-Cooke is one of a select group of broad-based practices in the Top 100. There are few other substantial London firms offering such a full range of legal services.
Types of work undertaken: The firm handles virtually the whole range of contentious and non-contentious company and commercial work, with its commercial property and contentious property departments enjoying a particularly high reputation.
The firm’s work for the not-for-profit sector ranges from charity law to professional regulation. The charity team is amongst the top three legal teams in the sector and advises over 600 charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Russell-Cooke offers a full range of services for private clients including highly-regarded childcare, family, clinical negligence, personal injury and criminal litigation services. Private clients also benefit from the firm’s highly-specialist contentious probate, French Law and cross-border estates expertise.
Other offices: Putney, Kingston upon Thames
Breakdown of work %
Property 25
Wills, trusts, probate and tax 14
Regulation 12
Litigation including crime 11
Family 11
Charities 10
Personal injury and clinical negligence 9
Company, commercial and employment 8
Number of UK partners 47
Number of other UK fee-earners 91
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