Rachel Higgs > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
1 St James Court
WHITEFRIARS
NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
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Rachel Higgs
Work Department
Commercial litigation.
Position
Head of commercial disputes team, Norwich. Specialises in complex and high value contract disputes, civil fraud, injunctive work, breach of warranty claims, partnership and shareholder disputes and claimant professional negligence, with a niche specialism in restrictive covenant/breach of confidence cases. Rachel is a qualified mediator and has extensive experience of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Current cases include a £30m claim for professional negligence and a £7m claim for breach of contract.
Career
Solicitor Mills & Reeve 1984-90; partner Mills & Reeve 1990. Director, The Forum Trust.
Memberships
Norwich Businesswomen’s Network; ADR Group Accredited Mediator.
Education
King Edward VI Camphill School for Girls, Birmingham; University of Nottingham (1981 LLB Hons Law); Nottingham Law School (1997 LLM Advanced Litigation).
Leisure
Family, food, current affairs, cinema and reading.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
Mills & Reeve LLP
‘s Norwich office is part of a firm-wide litigation practice that handles a broad scope of work for high-calibre clients, amongst them, Archant Limited and Bernard Matthews Foods. It is noted as advising its clients ‘in the best possible way’. Team head Rachel McDonnell has a broad practice which encompasses corporate, financial services and banking litigation work. McDonnell is regarded as being ‘commercially strong but always courteous’, and she is noted as ‘managing her clients and team effectively’. Consultant Rachel Higgs remains highly active in fraud, breach of warranty and shareholder and partnership disputes, whilst associate Abaigh Compton has notable experience in defamation cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector