Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Director of best practice and member of the management board.

Tim is director of best practice and a member of the firm's management board. He is also Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration (COFA). The best practice team combines Penningtons Manches Cooper’s risk and knowledge functions which focus on keeping the firm safe and continuing to help ‘make it better’.

Between 2010 and 2022, Tim headed the firm’s private individuals division which provides high quality advice on tax, family law and succession issues as well as a broad range of other services enabling private clients to achieve their personal goals. As a partner in the clinical negligence and personal injury team, he represented claimants for more than 20 years, successfully concluding many cases through negotiated settlements and where necessary at trial.

He is accredited as a mediator by the Centre For Dispute Resolution and has been on the approved solicitors lists of the Spinal Injuries Association and Headway. He has also been a member of the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel, the AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel and the Legal Aid Agency’s Review Panel. In 2016 he was appointed an Honorary AvMA Panel member. Honorary AvMA Panel membership is awarded to selected former AvMA Panel members in order to recognise the longstanding and significant contribution that an individual has made in the field of clinical negligence and patient safety as well as to the work of AvMA.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London 1989-91; trained Penningtons, admitted 1995; partner 2001; head of private individuals 2010; director of best practice 2022.

University of Durham (1988 BA Hons English Language and Literature); College of Law (1992 CPE commendation; 1993 Law Society Finals – first class honours).