Tozers swells its Legal 500 rankings

Devon law firm, Tozers Solicitors LLP, has again been recognised as one of the South West’s top performing firms of solicitors in the Legal 500. The Legal 500 has been published for over twenty years and the 2014 edition has just been published, providing the most comprehensive and worldwide coverage currently available on legal service providers. It is widely regarded as offering the definitive judgement of law firms’ capabilities.

Last year seven of Tozers’ partners were named in the Legal 500 but this year eleven solicitors from the firm have been recommended.

Tozers has been recognised for its employment work; its corporate and commercial work; family law; social housing; charities and clinical negligence expertise. Speaking about Tozers’ performance in the 2014 Legal 500, Peter Edwards – managing partner - said: “We are delighted that our corporate and commercial team has been recognised for the first time by Legal 500. We are very pleased to have six different departments of our firm acknowledged by the directory.”

Here are the 2014 Legal 500 comments on Tozers:

Charities and not-for-profit
Richard King at Tozers LLP is experienced in a broad range of charity law matters, including property and trusts. The team’s breadth of knowledge ‘is such that there are no gaps in its offering'. Amy Laver and Vernon Clarke are also recommended.

Clinical negligence
Tim Dyde at Tozers LLP has a strong focus on claims for children, including claims involving cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, misdiagnosis of cancer and fatal accidents. Endurance Arthur is ‘proactive' and ‘flexible', and has particular experience in cases over delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and vascular and cardiac surgery.

Corporate and commercial
Tozers LLP attracts praise for its ‘detailed and professional approach'. James Orpin’s team regularly handles transactions in the leisure industry.

Employment
Paul Kelly’s team at Tozers LLP is experienced in unfair dismissal cases. Clients include housing providers, holiday and residential caravan parks, hotels and charities.

Family
Tozers LLP has particular expertise in public law children work and matrimonial law. Collaborative lawyer Tracy Lambert has experience in areas including cohabitation and civil partnership, separation and pre-marital agreements, and Tony Wood is recommended for children matters.

Social housing
Tozers LLP’s wide-ranging practice, headed by Simon Sanger-Anderson, acts for clients such as Plymouth Community Homes, Raglan Housing and Radian Housing Group. Stephen Burtchaell is recommended for his ‘knowledge of regeneration and development matters'.

Tozers has offices in Exeter, Teignmouth and Newton Abbot.