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RPC Offices
TOWER BRIDGE HOUSE
ST KATHARINE'S WAY
LONDON
E1W 1AA
England
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Graham Reid
Work Department
Professional & Financial Risks
Position
Partner who specialises in all aspects of legal services, lawyers and law firms.
There are four main strands to Graham’s practice: the defence of negligence claims against lawyers; coverage advice for professional indemnity insurers of law firms; acting for lawyers in respect of regulatory and internal investigations and disciplinary proceedings; and non-contentious advisory work relating to the professional conduct of lawyers, risk management, law firm set-up, internal compliance arrangements, data breach incidents affecting law firms, and related issues.
Further specialist areas of experience include: legal professional privilege and its application to law firms and regulatory investigations; risks to client confidentiality; litigation funding, damages-based agreements and third party funding; referral fees and law firm networks; and regulatory reporting obligations.
Career
Self-employed barrister at Hailsham Chambers, 1992 – 2002; employed barrister with RPC from 2002 to date; Legal Director at RPC since 2011.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Appointments to various committees of the Bar Standards Boards (currently, Professional Conduct Committee).
Education
Oxford University (Magdalen College); City University; Inns of Court School of Law; Barrister, called 1993 (Middle Temple).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
RPC is best known for advising law firms and individual lawyers. It also assists clients in the insurance and accountancy professions. Its comprehensive offering ranges from the establishment of partnerships and LLPs through to their merger or dissolution. Team head Patrick Brodie has expertise across advisory and dispute matters while Geraldine Elliott 
advises partnerships in the legal sector. Graham Reid assists clients in a range of sectors on disputes and regulatory issues. The firm also provides specialist tax advice.
London > Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
RPC‘s professional practices group focuses on the regulatory issues affecting the legal services sector, insolvency practitioners, accountants and architects. Graham Reid has ‘first-class knowledge‘ and, in Bristol, Robert Morris has longstanding experience in handling disciplinary and regulatory matters, while senior associate Emma Wherry assists with construction-related professional discipline work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Partnership - London > Corporate and commercial
- Professional discipline - London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Public sector > Education: schools
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment (including media finance)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Customs and excise
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Private client > Art and cultural property