Herbert Smith is the leading commercial litigation practice in the UK and Asia, having dominated the market for commercial litigation services in London for the past four decades. Successfully resolving challenging, complex international disputes for our clients is the practice’s forte and we are the advisers of choice for some of the world’s best known businesses.
Increasingly, litigation is no longer seen as the sole recourse of clients seeking legal remedies to protect or defend their commercial position. We have a distinguished and broad-based international arbitration practice. We are also responsive to clients’ needs to seek other alternative means of dispute resolution, such as mediation.
We provide expert specialist dispute resolution advice in areas such as employment, personal injury, health and safety, fraud, partnership disputes and professional negligence and also work very closely with clients to avoid disputes in the first place. Our dispute resolution expertise includes helping clients to reduce their exposure to transaction-related litigation and to regulatory risk and investigations.
As a firm we are strongly committed to the development of our advocacy practice. We recently became the first UK law firm to establish an in-house advocacy unit and over 40 of our dispute resolution lawyers are qualified solicitor advocates.
Triggers and trends
Disputes in industry sectors, (pdf document, 1.5mb)
Litigation team of the Year
The Lawyer Awards 2007
Herbert Smith - best litigation practice
Vault Guide to the Top 50 UK Law Firms 2007
Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year
Asian Legal Business Awards 2006
Global Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year
Who's Who Legal Awards, 2005
"Western European Litigation/Arbitration Law Firm of the Year"
Chambers Awards, 2004
"Litigation department of the year - UK"
The American Lawyer, January 2004