Legal 500 Law Firm Duncan Lewis, one of the country's fastest growing firms of solicitors, announced today that it has recently opened a new office in Leicester at 60 Charles Street, Leicester, LE1 1FB. Duncan Lewis’ Leicester Office offers publicly and privately funded legal advice & assistance.
Despite the recent cuts to legal aid access, Duncan Lewis remains committed to providing publicly funded social welfare work. Holding the largest civil legal aid practice in the UK, the new Leicester office offers extensive experience assisting vulnerable clients in Immigration & Asylum, Family & Child Care, Housing Landlord & Tenant and Mental Health law; covering a number broad issues from representing clients subject to domestic abuse in matrimonial cases; assisting parents and guardians in cases where children risk going into care; homelessness, unlawful eviction and housing re-possession cases where clients risk losing their homes to the representation of victims of trafficking and asylum seekers seeking the right to settle & work. Practice Director, Jason Bruce states: “The opening of our new Leicester office has derived from a simple mission - to ensure the continued provision of high quality access to justice”.
Duncan Lewis, established in 1998, serves both corporate entities and private individuals from 13 offices across London and throughout the UK. A recommended leading law firm by Law Society Lexcel, Legal 500 and Chambers UK; Duncan Lewis employs over 500 members of staff and was the first law firm in the UK to achieve the Investors in People Gold Quality Standard Mark in 2009. Representing over 25,000 clients per year, the company has an excellent reputation in the Administrative Court, High Court and Court of Appeal in the Immigration, Public law and Family/Child Care jurisdictions. Established areas of law are: business immigration, child care, civil liberties, clinical negligence, community care, crime and fraud, dispute resolution, debt and insolvency, employment, family and divorce, housing, asylum and immigration, litigation, mental health, personal injury, prison law, professional negligence, public law and administrative law, regulatory matters and welfare benefits.