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Lovells is one of the leading international professional indemnity practices, focusing particularly on claims involving lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers and pensions professionals.  The dedicated team is a distinct area of specialty within our Dispute Resolution practice.

We advise many solicitors' firms in defence of professional negligence and breach of duty claims and have acted in some of the leading cases.  Most of these cases have arisen out of corporate and financial work including alleged negligence in drafting, structuring transactions, commercial dispute resolution, tax advice, pensions, trusts, intellectual property, insurance, property and ship finance.

We are regularly instructed on behalf of accountants and their insurers and also act for actuaries and their insurers regarding pensions issues.  In claims arising out of pensions work, we act for trustees, actuaries and their insurers.   

Lovells is a truly international firm and as such we handle professional indemnity claims in jurisdictions including England, Germany, France, Hong Kong and the USA. 

The breadth of our practice means that we can also call on the expertise of other specialists in the firm, where the type of claim requires it including IP, tax, competition, IT, banking, pensions, corporate finance, construction, shipping and environmental specalists. 

We have found that mediation is particularly suitable for the settlement of professional indemnity claims. We work closely with lawyers within our international dispute resolution practice who have wide experience of the use of ADR procedures in a broad range of sectors to resolve all manner of disputes.