Burges Salmon LLP
HeadquartersBristol, United Kingdom
No. of officesBristol, London and Edinburgh
No. of lawyers340+[1]
No. of employees900+[1]
Major practice areasBanking and Finance, Commercial, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment and Pensions, Real Estate[2]
Revenue£108.7 million (2021)[3]
Date founded1841 (Bristol)
Company typeLLP
Websitewww.burges-salmon.com

Burges Salmon LLP is a law firm based in Bristol, England.

About Burges Salmon

Burges Salmon is a UK law firm with a national and international client base.[4]

The firm operates throughout the UK and in European and international jurisdictions.[5] The firm currently has sector expertise in a range of areas including energy, transport, food and farming, real estate, financial services and infrastructure.[2] The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sector Alliance.[6][7]

In 2012, Burges Salmon chose the Bristol Children's Hospital charity,[8] Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, as its charity of the year - raising £84,000 to help support the expansion of the hospital.[9]

In 2013, the firm became a founding sponsor of Aardman and The Grand Appeal's Gromit Unleashed public art exhibition – sponsoring Aardman's Gromit sculpture at London Paddington station.[10]

In 2024 the latest revelations from the Post Office inquiry, chaired by the retired high court judge Sir Wyn Williams, emerged out of evidence given by the Post Office’s lead legal representative, Chris Jackson, a partner at the law firm Burges Salmon LLP.The former Conservative cabinet minister David Davis said the attitude of the Post Office and its legal representatives was a “disgrace” and that the organisation’s employment of expensive lawyers to thwart justice was an affront to the victims. He said: “They should ensure that every effort is made to disclose all the documents. The alternative to their own lawyers doing it is that we impose lawyers upon them to sift through their documents.”

The firm publishes an annual review called Insight.[11]

History

The origins of the firm go back to 1841[12] when Edward Burges set up as a sole practitioner. His father and grandfather had both been lawyers before him.[13]

Following the death of the founder in 1890, the practice was continued by his son W. E. Parry Burges who formed a partnership with a Mr Sloan, resulting in the name becoming Burges & Sloan. In 1947 the partnership was joined by Stuart Evans, who was then practising alone as Salmon, Cumberland and Evans. The firm's move to Narrow Quay House in 1982 saw the shortening of the name to "Burges Salmon".[14]

In 2010, Burges Salmon re-located from Narrow Quay to its current head office at One Glass Wharf[15] in the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.[16] In 2012, the firm also moved its London offices from Chancery Exchange to New Street Square, enabling it to operate from both Bristol and London.

Burges Salmon has authored a number of publications including the Burges Salmon Guide to Nuclear Law and the Burges Salmon Guide for Landowners and Farmers, also known as The Pink Book .

In 2008, allegations were made against Burges Salmon that sub-prime loans may have been mis-sold to farmers, and was investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.[17] In October 2010 the Solicitors Regulation Authority announced that it had closed the investigation with no further action.[18]


References

  1. 1 2 "Burges Salmon LLP – Bristol – Law Firm Profile - Chambers UK 2015 – Chambers and Partners". chambersandpartners.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Expertise | Burges Salmon". burges-salmon.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "Legal Business - Burges Salmon rides out Covid crisis to break £100m revenue threshold". legalbusiness.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Burges Salmon – independent UK law firm". www.burges-salmon.com.
  5. ↑ "About us | Burges Salmon". Archived from the original on 20 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "Legal Sustainability Alliance Members". Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "Burges Salmon LLP - Legal Sector Alliance". legalsectoralliance.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Home Page - Grand Appeal". grandappeal.org.uk.
  9. ↑ "Bristol law firm Burges Salmon raises £80,000 for Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal with cheese related antics - Bristol Post". thisisbristol.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 July 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Gromit Unleashed. "Gromit Unleashed - Sponsor a Gromit in Bristol". Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Our annual review - Burges Salmon – a leading UK law firm". burges-salmon.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Burges Salmon" (PDF). Law Careers. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "Burges Salmon". Legal Week. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Turnover Passes £70m for Burgess Salmon". Insider Media. 22 January 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "One Glass Wharf - Burges Salmon Office Space". Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "Home - Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone". bristoltemplequarter.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "Burges Salmon faces SRA loans probe". Legal Week. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "Burges Salmon spared SDT after 'hellishly complicated' investigation". Legal Support Network. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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