Alan Calvert > Brodies LLP > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Brodies LLP Offices
Capital Square
58 Morrison Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 8BP
United Kingdom
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Alan Calvert
Work Department
Litigation.
Position
Recognised as a leading individual in his field, Alan heads up our Professional Negligence practice, acting in disputes on behalf of insurer, corporate and partnership clients. He has over 30 years’ experience of handling claims involving engineers, architects, surveyors, solicitors, accountants, brokers and IFAs (Independent Financial Advisers) as well as construction industry contractors and overseeing teams handling occupational disease claims for employers.
He has a keen commercial sense for when litigation is in a client’s best interests or alternatively when they should adopt alternative, solution-driven approaches, having a special interest in mediation and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) in all his areas of specialism. He is also a frequent speaker on issues relating to professional liability, regulation and litigation.
Career
Qualified 1984; partner 1991. He was part of the 80-strong team who joined Brodies LLP from Bishops in August 2006.
Memberships
Law Society of Scotland; WS Society (Writer to Her Majesty’s Signet); Chartered Insurance Institute; Forum of Insurance Lawyers; Scottish Medico Legal Society.
Education
Glasgow University (LLB Hons; Dip LP).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
(Hall of Fame)Brodies LLP houses a ‘great team of knowledgeable and personable solicitors’, who excel in handling a broad range of professional negligence mandates for insurers, corporate companies and private individuals. Particularly active in the construction and real estate sectors, the practice regularly advises on construction and architecture disputes and negligent design claims, in addition to providing negligence advice concerning high-value transactions and claims against financial services. ‘Preeminent practitioner’ Alan Calvert
leads the team and specialises in commercial, construction and financial lines disputes, while Alisdair Matheson handles claims both for and against construction professionals, accountants, surveyors and solicitors. Other key contacts in the group include Stephanie Barratt and James Jerman.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
- Professional negligence Scotland > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Investment funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Public sector > Parliamentary and public affairs
- Insurance > Personal injury: defender
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport