Lawyers

Neil Howes

Neil Howes

Mills & Reeve LLP, Yorkshire And The Humber

Work Department

Insurance.

Position

Neil rejoined Mills & Reeve in 2010 and became a partner in 2011. He heads up the Leeds part of the firm’s insurance disputes group which has undergone a rapid rate of expansion over the last three years. Neil specialises in defending professional negligence claims on behalf of insurers and their insureds. He acts for a wide range of professionals including lawyers and professionals in the construction industry. Over the past year, he has acted in connection with a number of high profile, multi-million pound claims. He has extensive experience of claims involving fraud and of both making and defending applications for injunctions (including asset freezing and search and seizure orders).

Career

Trained Browne Jacobson; qualified 1999; solicitor Mills & Reeve 2001-03; Walker Morris 2003-10 (appointed director 2009); Mills & Reeves 2010 to date (appointed partner 2011).

Memberships

Leeds Law Society.

Education

St John’s College (University of Durham) 1995 LLB Hons Law; College of Law (Chester) 1996 LPC.

Leisure

Following Nottingham Forest FC; archery; hill walking.

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