Lawyers

Steve McCombe

Thrings LLP, South West

Work Department

Commercial property.

Position

Consultant and solicitor-advocate with over 30 years’ experience of resolving construction and engineering disputes, acting for employers, consultants, contractors, specialist sub-contractors, suppliers, funders, insolvency practitioners and insurers. The disputes have involved buildings, roads, sewage and water treatment works, gas mains, pipelines, oil refineries, off-shore oil terminals, tunnels, bridges, roller coasters and military airbases, using negotiations, litigation, adjudication, arbitration and mediation. He is also a Specialist Practice Consultant to the RIBA.

Career

School teacher in Somerset before switching to law; trained Thrings & Long; qualified 1989; Laytons; Morgan Bruce; Addleshaw Booth; Burges Salmon; partner Thrings 2007 to 2019; and consultant Thrings 2019 to date.

Memberships

Law Society, Society of Construction Law and Adjudication Society.

Education

Stamford School; University of Hull (BA Joint Hons 2(1) Geography and History); University of Leeds (Postgraduate Certificate in Education); Bristol Polytechnic (Common Professional Examination and Law Society’s Solicitors’ Finals) and College of Law (Higher Rights (Civil)).

Leisure

Music, photography, railway history and reading crime novels.