Moore Barlow

Moore Barlow was formed in May 2020, following the successful merger of two well-known South East regional law firms, Moore Blatch and Barlow Robbins. Together we offer a highly ranked breadth and depth of expertise across a wide range of legal specialisms from six locations to make us one of the UK’s top 100 UK law firms.

Moore Barlow’s managing partner, Ed Whittington leads the firm’s strategy to provide comprehensive legal services to corporate, investments and private clients with a strong emphasis on relationships and partner-led service.

Types of work undertaken: The firm’s business clients are typically SME businesses, individual clients are usually high-net-worth individuals and those who have suffered injury or harm. We work across many legal disciplines, from business services covering corporate, commercial and employment, litigation and real estate to private client estate, tax and will planning, personal injury and clinical negligence.

The firm: Moore Barlow is a firm recognised by peers and independent legal experts across a wide range of legal specialisms. The firm comprises 71 partners, 196 lawyers and legal professionals, and a total staff of nearly 500 across six UK offices (Guildford, London, Lymington, Richmond, Southampton, and Woking).

Our wide range of legal specialisms reflect the growing need from clients for legal advice in key sectors such as charities, not-for-profit and education, agricultural businesses and rural estates, financial services, as well as property development and house builders, technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

We have many leading individual lawyers and practice teams in Tier 1 including Charities and not-for profit, Education, Clinical negligence and Personal injury (claimant), Contentious trusts and probate,  Family, Private client, Corporate and commercial, Commercial property, Insolvency and restructuring. Our Tier 2 practices span Agriculture and estates, Employment, Health, Health and safety, IT and telecoms, Personal tax, Trust and probate, Property and commercial litigation.

Principal areas of work
Legal services for corporates, lenders, investors and charitable organisations: Moore Barlow’s business and organisations lawyers act for leaders and owners on a wide range of business areas. These include M&A, contractual and commercial law, employment, data protection, and IP, real estate development and management, as well as house builder services, commercial and other dispute resolution, employment and immigration advice, health and safety regulation, insolvency, business and debt recovery.

Personal legal services: The private client team includes several solicitors recognised as leaders in their field, notably family and international matrimonial / childcare law and mediation, private wealth and landed estates, Court of Protection and care of vulnerable people/care planning,. They have one of the biggest property teams in the South East and offer extensive conveyancing and property support for town and country estate planning and transactions.

Clinical negligence and personal injury: Recognised as one of the leading teams in the UK, Moore Barlow’s highly regarded solicitors have dealt with some of the most high value and complex claims of recent years and have secured compensation for thousands of clients including one of the largest-ever clinical negligence settlements for a 12 year old girl in 2018. The team specialises in community care, major trauma, medical negligence, personal injury, and special education needs.

Many in the clinical negligence and personal injury teams are members with APIL accreditation providing a quality mark of competence and specialist expertise for solicitors dealing with personal injury claims. Alongside this their legal experts are also members of SIA (Spinal Injury Association), Encephalitis Society, and Headway (Brain Injury Association). They are members of The Law Society and Investors in People.

Clients: Moore Barlow provides a range of services to entrepreneurs, investors, owners and leaders of businesses and organisations, and private individuals and families.

International: Moore Barlow is a member of two large International networks (Ecovis & International Referral) providing a network of colleagues and advisers with specialisms in many different fields and jurisdictions. Their clients benefit from quality advisers who have local cultural understanding and a strong client service ethos.

Contacts
Charities and education – Joanna Lada-Walicki

Commercial – John Warchus

Corporate – Jeremy Over

Employment – Katherine Maxwell

Litigation – David Foster

Insolvency – Heather Dobson

Family – Jo Farrands

Private wealth – Tim Adams

Commercial property – Jo Farr

Residential property – Clare Andrews

Clinical negligence – Anne Cassidy

Personal injury – Trevor Sterling