Clyde & Co merged with BLM in summer 2022, expanding its reach into the Wales market with the acquisition of a substantial team of lawyers who specialise in motor claims, occupational disease and a range of other personal injury matters. Key names include ‘vastly experienced’ Cardiff head Kerris Dale, who heads up the motor practice group, John Roberts, who leads the public sector team, and Cenydd Edwards, who is regarded as a ‘go-to advisor for defendant insurers in difficult asbestos cases.’ Recent cases handled by the team – who all work remotely in the Cardiff area – have covered spinal injuries, mesothelioma and other claims involving senior workplace injuries.

Drawing upon ‘a wide breadth of knowledge and experience’, Dolmans‘ ‘high-quality’ team provides ‘innovative and skilled advice in the insurance market’ across a wide range of personal injury mandates, including in relation to highly specialised and emotive areas such as sexual abuse claims. Led by Adrian Oliver, the practice remains best-known for its defence of Welsh (and English) local and public authorities and their insurers; this expertise was underscored by the firm’s reappointment to the NPS panel as an approved legal adviser in the provision of defendant insurance litigation services to the public sector in Wales. Justin Harris is ‘at the top of the tree in terms of high-value personal injury litigation’ and, as well as handling work for many of the firm’s public sector clients, has also been pivotal to the firm’s continued growth acting for several UK national insurers in the defence of signficiant motor claims. Peter Bennett is particularly adept at handling employers’ liability matters and ‘is a first choice for catastrophic personal injury claims‘ in this context including as it relates to industrial disease. ‘A very calm presence and a good judge of a case’, Simon Evans is well regarded by insurer clients in claims brought against public sector clients, as well as in relation to RTAs. The firm is also noted for its public authority defence work in the context of social services negligence and the Human Rights Act 1998, an area that the ‘determined and dogged’ Clare Hoskins, the ‘exceptional‘ Amanda Evans, Melanie Standley and Nicola Edwards, who has ‘an in-depth knowledge of the law‘, are recommended.