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Thompsons Solicitors LLP

202-206 LINTHORPE ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH, TS1 3QW, ENGLAND

Tel:: Work 01642 554162
Fax:: Fax 01642 243283
DX:: 711704 MIDDLESBOROUGH

Web:: www.thompsons.law.co.uk

North : Human resources

Within Employment, Thompsons Solicitors LLP is a second tier firm,

Iain Birrell leads the employment rights team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP, which does ‘a fantastic job for claimants’; it predominantly acts for employees and trade unions such as Unite, Unison and the GMB. Recent work includes handling various unfair dismissal and discrimination claims; and acting for members of the GMB and Unite in employment tribunals relating to mass redundancies carried out by Cleveland Bridge.

North : Insurance

Within Clinical negligence: claimant, Thompsons Solicitors LLP is a second tier firm,

Janet Allan’s team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP provides ‘a splendid service’, and client care is ‘second to none’. It recently acted in a £1.2m claim for delay in diagnosis and treatment of cauda equine syndrome. Gillian Muir is a ‘quality lawyer’.

Within Personal injury: claimant, Thompsons Solicitors LLP is a first tier firm,

Robert Wood’s team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP acts across a variety of claims, and recently secured £930,000 for a fall at work case. The group has strength in industrial disease and military-related claims, and was recently successful in bringing claims totalling over £1m against the MoD for asbestos-related mesothelioma.

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London

Offices in London WC1B and London SW19

North

Offices in South Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Middlesbrough

Northern Ireland

Offices in Belfast

South West

Offices in Bristol and Plymouth

Insurance : Personal injury: claimant

Wales

Offices in Swansea and Cardiff

West Midlands

Offices in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stoke-on-Trent

Yorkshire and the Humber

Offices in Sheffield and Leeds

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