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We have achieved the legal practice quality mark for client care, compliance and practice management once again this year. Swain & Co Solicitors have once again passed the Lexcel Assessment with flying colours. Lexcel is an optional, recognised accreditation scheme for Law Firms. The firm undergoes this audit every year to make sure that they…

Our Coronavirus Response The health and safety of our clients, employees and the wider public is our priority during these unprecedented times. We are following the Government’s guidance to stay at home where possible whilst continuing to provide advice and support to both existing and new clients. The majority of our colleagues are working remotely…

  Swain & Co does the Great Legal Bake The team at Swain & Co Solicitor’s Southampton office have been baking. Why? For the Great Legal Bake. What is the Great Legal Bake? Organised by the London Legal Support Trust, it is to raise money for access to legal services. With poverty on the rise…

Swain & Co Solicitors help our society’s most vulnerable through work with those facing homelessness, domestic abuse victims and seriously injured individuals. In doing so, staff have become so client focused, that their wellbeing at work could suffer. Directors Samantha Lee and Adrian Syms delivered their plan for 2019 at a staff conference in Eastleigh.…

2018 is no different, the Liverpool branch of Swain & Co Solicitors has been gathering food items for Trussell Trust. One of our lovely staff is closely involved with this wonderful charity. And every year organises the Liverpool office in bringing in food donations. As a firm, we see the work and use of food…

Sands Awareness Week Sands (stillborn and neonatal death charity) awareness week for 2018 was themed, “Walk a Mile in my shoes”.  The aim was to raise awareness not only of Sands, but of the not talked about subject of stillbirth and neonatal death. Walk a mile focus was to do your own walk, your way.…

So far I have written about “Colouring day”, “love your cat day” and “Clean your keyboard day” but I must admit that “Love to Litigate day” is my favourite so far. In order to prepare this article I read a lot of quotes about litigation and lawyers. This is my favourite from a Judge in…

AL FRESKO NOT AL DESKO (How not to get crackers in your keyboard) How many of us eat lunch at our desk?  When I say “lunch”, for me it has always been a case of grabbing something in between clients or case work.  As a consequence of this I have all sorts of crumbs and…

Happiness Month: What is happiness? August is happiness month. The sun is shining. We are having a glorious heatwave. But, what makes you happy? What is happiness to you? We asked our wonderful staff and the resounding answer was FAMILY and FRIENDS. Happiness is subjective and means different things to different people. It is not…