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Five in a row for pensions lawyer Tim Cox

30 October 2013
Issue: 7583 / Categories: Legal News
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Linklaters lawyer best all round pensions lawyer once again

Tim Cox, partner at Linklaters, has been voted the best all round pensions lawyer for the fifth year running, in Pensions World magazine’s annual survey.

Freshfield partner David Pollard was runner-up. Baker & Mackenzie partner Robert West and Slaughter & May partner Philip Bennett were joint third.

Travers Smith partner Paul Stannard was voted the top negotiator for the third year in a row. Philip Bennett was runner up, with Tim Cox and his fellow partner at Linklaters, Mark Blyth in joint third place.

Two lawyers were joint winners in the top litigator category: Angela Dimsdale-Gill, partner at Hogan Lovells and Giles Orton, partner at Eversheds.  A trio of lawyers came second: Katherine Dandy, partner at Sackers, Brian Green QC, of Wilberforce Chambers, and Mark Blyth.

Up and coming names include: Samantha Brown, partner at Herbert Smith, Daniel Gerring, partner at Travers Smith, Emma Frost, partner at CMS Cameron McKenna, and Jonathan Hilliard of Wilberforce Chambers.

James Thomas, financial journalist, who carried out the research, said: “The most important changes to lawyers’ work and pensions this year have centred on auto-enrolment and risk management. There is no time to sit back and enjoy the pensions view as further obstacles already loom large on the horizon.” 

The survey comprised 37 of the top pensions law firms and appears in the November 2013 issue of Pensions World.

Issue: 7583 / Categories: Legal News
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