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Laura Stocks

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Work Department

Professional liability

Position

Laura is a professional indemnity defence lawyer who specialises in acting for Top 100 law firms in complex, high-value disputes, together with other professionals such as accountants and insurance brokers. She also advises insurers on coverage issues.

Laura has defended law firms in a all aspects of private practice, including corporate, commercial property and development transactions, offshore trusts and tax, probate, family, employment, and lost litigation.

Career

Work highlights 

Acting on the defence of a c.£18m multi-party litigated claim by a salad produce company against its accountants for alleged negligent advice in connection of the restructuring and management buy-out of the business.

Acting for the solicitors in defence of a £12m litigated claim against the professional advisors of a sellers of a civil engineering company.

Defending a professional negligence claim against a law firm arising out of alleged negligence in the drafting of a commercial lease.

Acting for a law firm in connection with a claim arising out of the compromise of a financial remedy divorce proceedings.

Acting in defence of a multi-million pound claim against an insurance broker arising out of the avoidance of a unoccupied property owners policy following a fire at a hotel property.

Education

Withington Girls School; Imperial College London (2002-6, MSci Physics with a year in continental Europe)