Professional negligence

We act for companies, partnerships, LLPs, directors and individuals on a wide variety of professional negligence disputes. Some of our clients have experience in dealing with disputes, others have never been engaged in any form of litigation before.

Whatever the size or nature of the claim, you can be confident that it’ll be handled by a dedicated specialist.

Professionals are instructed to advise on a wide range of matters. On occasion, this advice is wrong, which can result in businesses or individuals suffering financial losses.

We have extensive experience in dealing with professional negligence disputes, which enables us to focus our advice directly on the area most relevant to you. Our experience also means that you can be confident that your case will be dealt with by an appropriate specialist and supervised by a partner with significant knowledge of the issues     .

We understand the importance of cost effective and timely advice. Our specialist team can advise on resolving a broad range of professional negligence disputes. Our primary objective is to achieve the best overall outcome for you. We aim to resolve matters as quickly as possible through commercial negotiations, or alternative dispute resolution (including arbitration, adjudication and mediation).

Where alternative resolution isn’t possible, we’re equally comfortable taking matters to trial where we’ll robustly defend your interests.

We can help you with claims against professionals, including:

• legal professionals
• accountants, auditors and tax advisers
• surveyors and valuers
• construction professionals, including contract administrators
• insurers and brokers
• financial advisers
• trustees

We aim to help you avoid disputes, or resolve them at an early stage. Our service is tailored to the size and complexity of each case and provides practical and commercial advice to achieve the best possible outcome.

We ensure that you receive the breadth and depth of support you require from lawyers who can identify alternative approaches to resolving your problems. As part of this we also draw on the wide range of experience across the firm.

Russell-Cooke is a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge.

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Charges are usually based on our hourly rates plus administrative charges and disbursements. We’ll provide an initial estimate of your likely legal costs and will update this if your requirements or the circumstances of the work change.

We also have a flexible and innovative approach to litigation funding, in appropriate cases, enables us to offer our clients a number of funding options tailored to a client’s particular requirements. For further information please read our commercial litigation funding information page.