At 2TG our people are hard-working, forward-thinking and approachable. We believe our supportive culture is one of our greatest strengths.
With the set comprising around 60 barristers, we know each other well and work effectively together. We often operate in large teams with clients. Our practice management team is modern and commercial, matching barrister experience thoughtfully to clients’ requirements.
At 2TG our barristers are expert in a broad range of complementary practice areas and we enjoy repeat instructions from a variety of loyal clients.
Practised advocates from the start, all our Silks and the vast majority of our Junior barristers are recognised as leaders in their chosen fields. Many of us are at the forefront of shaping the law in our specialist areas and we pride ourselves in having excellent industry knowledge.
At 2TG our barristers have excellent experience acting across a range of industry sectors and we are able to offer advice in an informed and commercial context.
Our combination of practice area excellence and industry expertise means we possess real insight into the commercial realities facing our clients operating in these areas. Secondment plays an important part of our commitment to developing our skills and understanding.
2TG is home to award-winning accredited mediators, arbitrators, adjudicators and experts with considerable experience of alternative dispute resolution.
Our barristers are also skilled as advocates in different alternative dispute resolution procedures and work strategically with clients to understand their commercial objectives, and then to resolve litigation as cost-effectively and expeditiously as possible.
Work with an international dimension forms a significant part of many barristers’ work at 2TG.
We appear in international courts and arbitral tribunals all over the world, frequently acting on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. We are particularly well-known for managing cross border litigation on matters of jurisdiction and applicable law and appear regularly in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.
At 2TG, in addition to our professional advice, we are recognised for our excellent contribution to education and development. We provide regular high-quality training.
Our reputation among the legal profession and other clients for our first-rate webinars and in-person conferences is very important to us. We also contribute frequently at industry events and as editors of leading texts and authors on topics of legal interest.
We are a leading personal injury set. We are recognised for our specialist knowledge, approachability and sympathetic understanding of lay clients, as well as our forensic skills.
Our work includes the highest value catastrophic cases and more modest claims where individual lives have been altered, limited or disrupted. We are used to working together with medical and rehabilitation experts to ensure that best outcome is achieved in all cases.
Our clients, both domestic and foreign, include private individuals, private and public companies, insurers and departments of government.
We cover all aspects of the law relating to personal injury, both physical and psychiatric injury. We are counsel of choice for claims arising from catastrophic head and spinal injuries, fatal accidents, psychological trauma and sports injuries.
We have a long-established high reputation in claims for occupational disease and workplace psychiatric injury, including bullying, harassment, stress and for physical and sexual abuse both historic and contemporary.
We provide clear, down to earth advice and adept representation on public, employer’s and road traffic liabilities.
Many of us also practise in the related areas of employment, health and safety, professional negligence and clinical negligence, private international law and insurance. Our clients benefit hugely from the depth of this complementary expertise and experience. It enables us to offer a “one stop” service for inquests, public inquiries, HSE prosecutions and civil claims in direct, contributory and group litigation.
As an increasing number of claims are being brought relating to accidents and incidents overseas. 2TG barristers offer a significant advantage to our clients by combining injury, jurisdictional and insurance expertise as cases require.
2TG barristers have led the development of the law relating to personal injury, in the leading cases on stress at work, harassment, industrial disease, the Animals Act and occupiers liability.
We offer expertise in and facilities for all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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