Dickinson Dees

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Dickinson Dees
Headquarters Newcastle upon Tyne
No. of offices 5 in UK and 1 affiliated office in Brussels
No. of attorneys 215
No. of employees 600
Key people John Marshall (Senior Partner)
Jonathan Blair (Managing Partner)
Revenue £46.1m million
Date founded 1975
Company type Limited Liability Partnership
Website
dickinson-dees.com

Dickinson Dees LLP is a law firm. It is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The firm employs around 600 staff[1] and has 53 partners[2] across its offices in Newcastle, Tees Valley, Leeds and London. It is ranked 58 in The Lawyer’s Top 100 UK law firms.

History

Dickinson Dees was formed in 1975 by a merger of law firms.

Since 2000 the firm has opened offices in Thornaby in Teesside and in London. It also gained an office in York though acquisition of York-based law firm Ashworths. In April 2012 the firm closed its York office and moved its Yorkshire presence to a new 17,000 sq ft office in Leeds.[3]

At its peak in 2005 the firm had 763 solicitors (including partners).[4] By 2010 the firm had reduced this number to 327 solicitors due to restructuring [5] In 2008, the firm sold its volume conveyancing operation, D3 Legal, to Optima Legal and in 2010 it also exited the Family law market.[6] The firm was also affected by the recession which followed the global financial crisis and in 2009 made 83 redundancies.[7]

For the year 2011-2012, the firm increased its turnover by 1.3% to £46.1m[8] and profit by 10% to £12.1m.[citation needed]

In September 2012 Dickinson Dees announced that it was in talks for a merger with South West based law firm Bond Pearce.[9] Bond Pearce is two places ahead of Dickinson Dees in the Lawyer’s Top 100 Firms 2012 and has a very similar turnover.[10] December saw confirmation that the merger was to go ahead on 1 May 2013 creating a new law firm, Bond Dickinson. As part of the merger the firms agreed to combine their London offices in new larger premises.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Our_People". DickinsonDees. Retrieved 2010-08-11. 
  2. ↑ "Law-firms". Legalweek. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  3. ↑ http://www.joneslanglasalle.co.uk/UnitedKingdom/EN-GB/Pages/NewsItem.aspx?ItemID=24883
  4. ↑ www.thelawyer.com (Dickinson Dees)
  5. ↑ http://www.thelawyer.com/directory/d/Dickinson-Dees/
  6. ↑ "Law-firms". Legalweek. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  7. ↑ "> The Lawyer Firm Appraisal". The Lawyer. Retrieved 2010-08-11. 
  8. ↑ "> The Lawyer Firm Appraisal". The Lawyer. Retrieved 2010-08-11. 
  9. ↑ "> Dickinson Dees and Bond Pearce in talks to create £92m firm". The Lawyer. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  10. ↑ "Law-firms". Legalweek. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  11. ↑ "> Bond Dickinson Merger Gets Partner Backing". Dickinson Dees. Retrieved 2013-02-05. 
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