Dispute resolution role for QC
3 Dec 07
Michael Jones takes on senior role at Simpson & Marwick
Simpson & Marwick has appointed Michael Jones QC to set up and head a new dispute resolution department.
He will join the firm as a senior partner on 1 January 2008 and will lead a team pioneering the use of technology in the preparation and presentation of claims, for the purposes of litigation, arbitration, mediation and negotiation.
Mr Jones has worked closely with Simpson & Marwick throughout his career at the Scots bar. He has appeared for their clients in a number of high profile cases, including the Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash Inquiry, the Dunblane Inquiry and the prosecution arising out of the Larkhall gas explosion. He is also a trained mediator.
Peter Anderson, senior litigation partner at Simpson & Marwick, said: "Michael Jones is a great contributor to and innovator in litigation and dispute solving. We are highly delighted that he has agreed to join us to do more of that.
"We are not supplanting counsel - far from it. We greatly value working with members of the Faculty of Advocates for whom we have a very high regard, and we will continue to do so. What we are doing is modifying part of Scots practice to help this firm meet the needs of clients and the court in the 21st century."