Comment Magazine Issue 5

Insight
Bringing you the latest news from Coffin Mew
Legal “Bible” recommends Coffin Mew
Coffin Mew has been named by The Legal 500 as one of the UK’s leading law firms.
The Legal 500,
published annually
and known as the
“lawyers’ Bible”,
seeks to rank the UK’s best law
firms and individual lawyers across
a number of industry sectors and
specialist legal disciplines.
Fourteen of the firm’s lawyers and 11
industry sectors have been highlighted
in the 2016 research, which was
published in September.
Amanda Brockwell, the firm’s Head of
Corporate, and Chris Upfield, a Partner
in the Family team, have also been
included in The Legal 500’s Leading
Lawyers list – an elite group of lawyers
hand-picked from across the UK.
Miles Brown, Coffin Mew’s Managing
Partner said: “The firm is thriving, as
witnessed by this accolade and
the highly talented lawyers we are
proud to employ. It is very gratifying
to see our work recognised by
The Legal 500, and I look forward
to seeing the firm and our lawyers
continue to rise up through the
rankings in future years.”
Visit www.legal500.com for further
information.
Coffin Mew’s Conveyancing
team ‘Highly Commended’
Coffin Mew has been highly commended
at the annual and prestigious Modern Law
Conveyancing Awards and the LFS
Conveyancing Awards.
The firm’s
specialist
Residential
Conveyancing
team was
nominated for
‘Property Team
of the Year’ at the
Modern Law Awards
and ‘Regional Firm of the Year’ at the LFS Conveyancing
Awards, and received the ‘highly commended’ accolade
at both award ceremonies.
The awards recognise those firms taking a lead in
innovation and developing unique solutions for clients, and
those that champion client care.
Coffin Mew has one of the strongest dedicated residential
conveyancing and New Homes teams in the South East, led
by Partner Karen Webb. She said: “We put service excellence
at the heart of everything we do – from our IT systems
to new staff induction programmes – and the emphasis
is always to deliver the very best client service. We are
delighted that our commitment to service excellence has
been recognised by these awards.”
When Bands Collide
Coffin Mew’s Brighton office will be hosting When Bands
Collide at The Haunt on 9 February 2017. Compered by
local legend Guy Lloyd of Juice 107.2 and Britain’s Got
Talent fame, When Bands Collide will give Brighton’s finest
corporate talent a chance to raise the roof this February.
Taking to the stage will be Keep Rockin, the house band of
chartered accountants and financial advisers Kreston Reeves;
The Ricardo Work Band representing its namesake, global
engineering consultancy
Ricardo; and G59ers
showcasing the talents
of renewable energy
consultancy, OST Energy.
They will be joined
by award winning
accountants, Crunch
Accounting, as well as
Coffin Mew’s own band,
Clover.
Each band will perform
in the hope of winning
a prize for the charity
of its choice – as well as
staffroom glory and endless bragging rights.
John Parkinson, Head of Business Development at Coffin
Mew and drummer in Clover commented: “We’re off to
a flying start with this line-up – who knew the Brighton
business scene had so many weekend rockstars in its midst!
“When Bands Collide is shaping up to be a great showcase
of local talent. I can’t wait to raise the roof of The Haunt and a
nice big sum for local charities. Roll on February!”
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