Solicitors agree case swap deal
PERSONAL injury and medical negligence specialists Neil Hudgell Solicitors and Leeds headquartered Michael Lewin Solicitors have agreed a case swap deal.
As part of the deal Neil Hudgell Solicitors is buying, for an undisclosed sum, Michael Lewin Solicitors’ entire medical negligence caseload.
Michael Lewin’s medical negligence solicitor Kay Barnes has also transferred to Neil Hudgell Solicitors.
Meanwhile, Neil Hudgell Solicitors will refer any employment cases and inquiries to Michael Lewin Solicitors.
The firms say the arrangement will enable both to build business in areas of law in which they have particular expertise.
Neil Hudgell said: “Michael and I have been talking for a while about how we can work together to the mutual benefit of both our businesses. This new working relationship fits with Neil Hudgell Solicitors’ strategy of providing a specialist, high quality niche offering focused on personal injury and medical negligence cases.”
Michael Lewin said: “This reciprocal arrangement enables both our businesses to develop our core areas of legal expertise enabling both companies to move forward and to continue to expand.”
Neil Hudgell Solicitors was established in Hull in 1997 and now employs 110 staff at offices in Hull, Leeds and Bristol as well as recently opened new offices in London.
Michael Lewin Solicitors has 120 staff including one of the country’s largest teams of specialists in claims for industrial diseases and road traffic accidents.
