Rowena Williams > CMS > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
CMS Offices
SALTIRE COURT
20 CASTLE TERRACE
EDINBURGH
EH1 2EN
United Kingdom
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Rowena Williams
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Rowena is a Senior Associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance Team.
Rowena is dual qualified in Scotland and England & Wales, working with market leading Insurers and their Insureds across a range of sectors and policies. She has experience on advising on claims under professional indemnity policies, both coverage and defence, across a broad range of fields, including architects, engineers, surveyors, independent testers, accountants, IFAs, brokers and IT professionals. Rowena has a particular focus on claims in the construction sector, including advising on property damage, latent defects and CAR policies.
Education
- 2014 – Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, University of Glasgow
- 2013 – Scots Law LLB, University of Glasgow
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
(Leading associates)Situated within the firm’s wider insurance and litigation practice, the professional negligence team at CMS handles a broad range of professional indemnity matters, particularly in the construction, engineering and renewable energy sectors. Graeme MacLeod jointly leads the team alongside ‘sophisticated negotiator’ Harriet Munro, who is regularly instructed to defend insolvency practitioners and insurance brokers. The team also regularly handles conspiracy to defraud and negligent advice claims. Praised as ‘forensic, analytical, and thorough’, Rowena Williams is another key contact in the group.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates Scotland > Insurance > Professional negligence
- Professional negligence Scotland > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Real estate > Environment
- Public sector > Health
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Investment funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- Transport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: fraud
- Public sector > Education
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Pensions