Anthony Collins
No of Partners: 22
No of Assistant Solicitors: 58
www.anthonycollinssolicitors.com
The Birmingham Law Society’s ‘firm of the year’ for 2003 and 2004, Anthony Collins Solicitors, has carved out a lucrative niche in the city to become one of its most successful and respected medium-sized practices. Since Anthony Collins created his eponymous firm back in 1973, the firm has grown strongly to number 22 partners and more than 185 staff and the firm’s practice is now divided into three main business areas – commercial services team, private client team, and the transformation team which covers charities, social housing and regeneration work.
The commercial services team incorporates general company/commercial work, construction, disputes, employment, licensing, professional & educational negligence and property, while the private client team provides matrimonial and childcare law, wills, residential conveyancing and claimant personal injury and clinical negligence.
The transformation team acting for housing associations and local government nationwide in seeking to improve local communities and its reputation was underlined in 2004 by its inclusion on the Housing Corporation’s first panel in 2004, alongside Cobbetts, Dickinson Dees, Devonshires, Jenkins & Hand, Masons, and Trowers & Hamlins. The sizeable charities practice enjoys the patronage of a range of household names, including Help the Aged and Tear Fund, and scored a notable coup in 2003 by recruiting Pinsent Masons’ highly-rated head of pensions Simon Ramshaw.
The firm is straightforwardly committed to serving clients, which it believes can be best achieved through retaining high quality lawyers, who are drawn to the firm from larger neighbours, through a combination of focussing on the person and delivering on its commitment to provide a balance between work and home life.
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