Adv Frankie Everitt > Fieldfisher > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Fieldfisher stands out for its ‘superb strength and depth in the field of inquests and inquiries’. In addition to this, the team also has experience advising on legislative drafting as well as bringing and defending judicial review claims. The practice is co-headed by Martin Smith and Matthew Lohn. Lohn advises both regulators and commercial clients across a variety of sectors, including environmental, financial, electoral, and healthcare. Smith is particularly skilled with public inquiries, such as the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry and the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. The wider team also has a depth of experience with high-profile inquests and inquiries, which includes Tim Suter and Oliver Carlyon. Frankie Everitt is also noted for her assistance with some of the firm’s most prominent cases.

Fieldfisher‘s large professional discipline team ‘delivers on the brief and works to a very high standard’. In addition to acting for an array of different regulators across health, sport, surveying, policing, finance and law, the group represents higher education institutions that offer regulated profession-related study courses. Regulatory group co-head Sarah Ellson ‘knows everything about professional regulation’; and Matthew Lohn has particular experience in healthcare and finance sector-related discipline issues. The practice also comprises Frankie Everitt, an adviser on a range of professional disciplinary, public law and regulatory issues; the ‘very impressive’ Martin Sleight, who is a former GMC in-house counsel; and Olivia Rogers, who assists regulatory bodies and businesses with professional discipline matters. Currently on a part-time secondment to the Bar Standards Board, Chloe Williams is ‘an absolute star in the making’.