Tlw Solicitors - Second Time Winners Of Law Firm Of The Year

North Shields based TLW Solicitors again picked up the Law Firm of the Year (1-5 partners) award at the Northern Law Awards 2018, having won the same category two years earlier.

Partner, John Burn said: “To win Law Firm of the Year for the second time shows that we must be doing something right and consistently too. This is what happens when you have a great team around you”. Fellow Partner, Peter McKenna added: “TLW has always focused on being innovative whilst at the same time maintaining high service levels across all of our practice areas as reflected in our fantastic client satisfaction reviews.”

With its experience of complex litigation at its core, TLW is an approved member of the Head Injury Solicitors Directory for national charity, Headway. In a year that saw TLW retain the quality mark, Lexcel, another highlight was winning the Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award, an independent seal of excellence rated by clients.

TLW is becoming regarded as leading national specialists in a technically challenging aspect of professional negligence – namely financial misselling. TLW’s team deals with claims following negligent and/or unsuitable advice given to clients not properly informed of the risks and potential downsides of investments. This includes advice around Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPP’s), high risk products (for example store pods, foreign property, carbon credits), tax avoidance schemes, transferring out of Defined Benefit/Final Salary Schemes and annuities.

Financial mis-selling claims are complex, with wellresourced opponents and where strict time limits often apply. TLW receives referrals from other solicitors, financial planners/advisers, insolvency practitioners and accountants, as well as existing and former clients.

Peter McKenna said: “Our specialist lawyers have used their experience and exemplary client care to develop a niche practice in the complex arena of financial mis-selling. All too often we are contacted by professionals doing a good job for their clients who come across ‘horror stories’ from previous advice given by another company and asking if we can put things right.”

John Burn concluded: “To be recognised by our clients through the Feefo Award and our industry peers at the Northern Law Awards is a great place to be and a solid foundation from which to continue extending the value that TLW adds.”