Legal 500 Rank Foot Anstey As Regional Heavyweight
The law world’s bible, the Legal 500, has ranked Foot Anstey as a South West ‘regional heavyweight’ in its annual review. The firm has risen from 11th to 10th in size in the South West seven county table with its 156 fee earners spread across three offices in Exeter, Plymouth and Taunton.
Foot Anstey has been listed as a regional heavyweight in 24 sectors ranging from corporate and commercial through media, information technology, property, shipping and family.
Three of the firm’s partners are named as leading individuals
Tony Jaffa in media
‘Tony Jaffa’s media practice at Foot Anstey is one of the South West’s hidden gems. He has had phenomenal success as the adviser of choice to much of the newspaper industry nationally, providing pre and post production advice including defamation advice to over 400 newspapers’.
Andrew Hannam in clinical negligence
‘2005 was a period of consolidation at Foot Anstey following the high profile recruitment of Andrew Hannam and two associates from Clarke Willmott. The team specialises in cerebral palsy, birth injury, orthopaedic, urological and best interests claims.’
Ed Probert for information technology
‘Ed Probert’s two partner team delivers tailored web audit, data protection and compliance products, as well as handling regular IT advice’.
Jane Lister, Managing Partner, said “We are gaining a rising reputation for all three audiences we serve, business, private individuals and legal aid. The Legal 500 in its overview of the seven counties reported on our ‘avowed aim to continue its expansion across the counties to the south of Bristol’ and our commitment to legal aid work.
“With each new edition of the Legal 500 we have moved up in the rankings. These are made after the Legal 500 has talked to our clients, our competitors and us. It is not just the named solicitors who provide the service to our clients it is everyone in the firm that has gained us this excellent reference.”
The full report can be seen at: www.legal500.com
Published 20/09/2006
