Simpson Millar - Legal Services - Video
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Transcript - Legal Services
My name is Peter Watson and I’m the Managing Partner for Simpson Millar and I am
based in our Leeds offices although I have responsibility for all 8 offices of the
firm. Simpson Millar as a firm was founded about 150 years ago and our home for
many years was in London Bridge. We now have 8 offices around England and Wales
and our staff totals are above 200.
We have always had as a firm the needs and the rights of individuals at the core
of our practice hence our longstanding relationship with the Communication Workers
Union. Over the last 20 or so years we have expanded the range of services that
we offer but our focus is still on individuals and also small and medium sized businesses
many of which are owner managed.
In terms of services to individuals we are one of the leading Claimant personal
injury practices in the country and what that means is that we handle thousands
of personal injury claims every year in order to try and secure compensation for
people whether they have been injured at work in a car accident in the street or
on someone else’s premises. Because of the volume of personal injury claims we handle
we have a number of specialist teams within the personal injury field to ensure
that the clients get the best possible representation. Our teams include a road
traffic accident team, a Trade Union personal injury team, clinical negligence team
which is also referred to as medical negligence and a industrial disease team which
acts for people who are suffering from asbestos related illness, chest injuries
and other chest conditions problems caused by the use of vibrating tools and other
illnesses which could be as a result of harmful exposure to dangerous substances
or machinery in the workplace.
In addition to our personal injury department we have also got a full range of other
services to individuals which includes conveyancing, wills and probate, family law,
employment law advice and lump sum investment or other independent financial advice.
In keeping with our history of looking after the needs of individuals we also have
a dedicated consumer protection department which deals with a wide range of matters
where individuals have suffered financial loss at the hands of insurers banks or
other institutions. Current areas we are pursuing claims for clients include the
recovery of payment protection insurance mis-selling claims,
un-enforceable loan agreements and inappropriate care home fees.
One of the areas that we have grown firm in recent years is the offering for small
and medium sized businesses and we are now in a position to offer a full range of
services to these companies which will include commercial property, employment
law advice, company and commercial law and by that I mean advice on the sale and
purchase businesses, shareholder agreements and we have a debt recovery service.
The debt recovery team can handle a wide range of matters for businesses whether
its simple invoice collection, general service charge recoveries, more involved
winding up petitions but in addition to those specific matters we are also able
to offer general advice to businesses on credit control and other internal management
issues.
One of the areas where we try and add value to the service we offer businesses is
where we have acted for them on an employment law related matter and what we try
and do is not just deal with a specific issue which is causing them difficulty but
also look at ways that they can avoid these difficulties arising again in the future.
So we could offer to go in and do a review of all their contracts of employment,
we could have a look at their risk assessment procedures and so the specific piece
of work we have acted for can be a catalyst to say we now need to advise you more
generally on these procedures that you have got in-house so that you don’t fall
foul of the same problem again. There are a wide range of ways that firms or other
businesses or individuals can instruct Simpson Millar. We have got over a hundred
different sources of business codes that we use but some of the more common ones
you may expect are referrals from existing clients which are particularly important
to us because they generally mean that we have done a good job for the existing
client who has referred us. Equally referrals from our Trade Union clients are very
important and have been for many many years and will be in the future as are referrals
from other institutional work providers.
The website is becoming an increasingly new source of work for us and this is an
area where I think we have made substantial progress in comparison with many other
firms. A lot of people do now like to contact us via the website and we have tried
to make the website as easy and convenient to use be it for a general speculative
application about the services we provide or if they have got a particular area
of work that they want to e-mail us an enquiry about. For those people who don’t
want to contact us by the website we have a centralised switchboard here in Leeds.
We also operate a call centre out of Leeds where people can ring and make enquiries
about any of the services we offer and then pass that onto the appropriate employee
within the firm.
Get in touch today and find out how we can help you:
Freephone: 0808 129 3320 or email us
using our online enquiry form.
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