Spencer West LLP‘s contentious construction practice boasts a ’strong team with good knowledge of the industry’, handling a wide range of related work including fire safety and cladding-related matters and defect and delay claims. Key contacts in the London office include ‘great strategic thinker’ Sarah Evans, who handles PFI contract disputes, TCC trials, and adjudications in the telecoms industry, and Emma Claremont, who has accredited experience in commercial refurbishment and extension claims, and infrastructure contract disputes.
Testimonials
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‘Sarah Evans is excellent. A great project manager.’
‘Strong team with good knowledge of the industry.’
‘Sarah Evans is an outstanding project manager of complex construction litigation. She understands what the clients' drivers are and looks after them well.’
‘Sarah Evans provided an exceptional level of client service on a complex, large-scale project. Sarah was a pleasure to work with, always professional, incredibly astute, responsive, calm and always empathetic and compassionate.'
- 'Sarah Evans is a great strategic thinker, an astute tactician with great judgement. Sarah always demonstrated great diplomacy skills and has excellent powers of persuasion.'
- 'Sarah Evans regularly demonstrated enormous resilience, flexibility, passion and energy, frequently going over and above in the interests of the client and the project. Sarah is a brilliant asset to lead any legal team.’
‘Sarah Evans was outstandingly good. She managed a very difficult and complex situation professionally and extremely well, bringing all her intelligence, experience and knowledge of the law to bear.'
‘The strong client focus and ability to quickly identify the issues; be able to then allocate the issues to work streams to be led by suitably knowledgeable and experienced lawyers.’