Help for
Lawyers
The Challenges
- Handling periodic shortages of expert staff. Dealing with issues outside the competence of established or available staff. Sudden increases in workloads.
- Overcoming the dearth of high quality researchers on both legal and technical issues.
- Finding someone who can resolve disputes between parties
- Need to think out of the box or in a different way when faced with unusual issues
- Absence of writing and editing experience, particularly at odd hours of the day to meet emergencies
- Understanding technical financial services issues.
- Lack of experience working with multiple legal systems particularly in the dispute resolution field
- Finding expert witnesses with expertise in financial services or international arbitration who understand the litigation context
- Absence of experience at dealing with consumer financial services law and complaints and the Financial Ombudsman Service
Solutions
- Advice, reviewing opinions for clients, research services, analysis of expert reports, writing, referencing and editing papers, attending meetings.
- Providing training sessions for staff on financial services and international arbitration issues.
- Expert opinions and witness work.
- Acting as arbitrator or binding expert to resolve disputes involving the firm's clients.
- Providing advice, research and litigation assistance on a wide range of topics, notably international arbitration, computer, commercial, UK pensions and financial services law.
- Offering briefing papers for solicitors seeking to obtain consumer financial services business.
- Providing an advice service through the firm to its clients on financial services compliance and complaint handling.
- Reviews of expert witness reports to identify areas where an expert may have over-extended themselves.
- Research papers on English and US law covering particular issues involved in contracts and major international litigation and arbitration between the parties.