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 Legal Risk is a true niche law firm. We are a firm of practising solicitors combining cutting edge legal practice with our experience in management of large law firms. We advise leading insurers, lenders, brokers, major city law firms and professional firms of all sizes nationally and internationally. We have advised one in seven of the top 100 UK law firms, including some of the largest, and our client base is from London to Australia.
Legal Risk works with a wide array of national and international clients, giving unrivalled industry expertise and knowledge.
Legal Risk identifies issues and provides solutions in all areas of professional risk and compliance.
Legal Risk helps prevent losses before they happen and as a result can help save clients money.
Legal Risk understands law firm insurance and risk management strategies and has strong relationships with insurers and brokers.
Legal Risk does more than just tick the boxes to achieve regulatory compliance, it helps develop joined up structures and procedures and enhance overall performance.
Legal Risk is well recognised within the industry and is featured in the Legal 500.
What others say about us
The SRA found no real concerns and were very positive in their comments about our compliance systems. In fact the lead assessor told me that in the six years she had been at the SRA we were amongst the best, if not the best, firm she had visited! I am sure this result would not have been achieved without the help and support that you have offered us over the years, which has been invaluable." Client following an SRA compliance visit "Everybody is pleased with your report. In fact one partner said it was the best thing the firm had done in years." Managing partner, Top 50 firm commenting on risk management report. "Tony Summers' presentation was a breath of fresh air!" Lexcel Quality Forum 2006 (Tony Summers is a Consultant with Legal Risk)
“..I just wanted to thank you for your very helpful and detailed advice.” Client commenting on advice provided in an insurance claim against former partners of a multi national firm. "May I take this opportunity of thanking you firstly for your excellent advice, and secondly, for dealing with the matter so understandingly." Solicitor in small firm commenting on successor practice advice.
‘I would like to thank you for the work you have put in on compiling the [professional risk] report and for your advice and assistance with recruitment of a Risk and Compliance Officer’
Managing Partner – medium/large size law firm
"Very clean yet detailed presentation of a difficult subject matter" In-house Money Laundering seminar for a Yorkshire law firm.
“… it is clear that the speakers [Frank Maher and Sue Mawdsley] have a detailed knowledge … are well qualified and experienced in this particular field and therefore well able to lecture with authority.” Law Society CPD Monitoring Unit, Business Development & Planning – Winning Tactics and Strategies course – 15.06.05
‘Many thanks for delivering the sessions so professionally …. and for the skill and enthusiasm with which you delivered our AML sessions’ Training Partner, Top 50 Law Firm
"...we got to know areas where we might be lacking and were therefore able to fix them. Overall excellent. Very pleased to take the opportunity, very positive experience" "I would recommend the report to any firm."
Two law firms commenting on Desktop - Legal Risk's on-line risk management report. Partners:
Frank Maher
Sue Mawdsley
Francis Dingwall
We are solicitors in England and Wales and are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Our professional rules may be accessed at www.sra.org.uk. VAT registration number 815 9308 20 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000: We are not authorised by the Financial Services Authority. However, we are included on the register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by Solicitors Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at www.fsa.gov.uk/register.
We are not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, but we are able, in certain circumstances, to offer a limited range of investment services to the client because we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We can provide these investment services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide.
If you have any problem with the service we have provided for you then please let us know. We will try to resolve any problem quickly and operate an internal complaints handling system to help us to resolve the problem between ourselves. If for any reason we are unable to resolve the problem between us, then we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and complaints and redress mechanisms are provided through the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Complaints Service.
The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, but responsibility for regulation and complaints handling has been separated from the Law Society’s representative functions. The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society and the Legal Complaints Service is the independent complaints handling body of the Law Society. |
Francis Dingwall is a solicitor and joined the firm as a partner in November 2007. He has substantial experience of defendant professional indemnity and is recommended as a leading practitioner by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. 