Russell-Cooke

Lawyers 186
Turnover £46.4 million
Offices 3

The firm, founded in 1880, is known for its commercial, regulatory and not-for-profit work. It may therefore be unsurprising that it has become heavily involved in work emerging from the flammable cladding crisis.

Not only does the firm act for some of the bereaved, survivors and residents at the public inquiry dealing with the Grenfell Tower fire, it also acts for groups of leaseholders, tenants, management companies, freeholders and developers in civil claims and criminal investigations arising from unsafe cladding and other building defects in relation to fire safety. It successfully obtained the first remediation order for cladding and building safety defects under the Building Safety Act 2022.

It also secured a £2 million settlement for a 71-year old woman who suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury that caused her to be paralysed from the waist down after she was struck by a car while crossing a road.