Irwin Mitchell
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| Headquarters | Sheffield |
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| No. of offices | 16 |
| No. of attorneys | 2100 |
| No. of employees | 3000+ |
| Major practice areas | General Practice |
| Key people | Andrew Tucker (Group Chief Executive) |
| Revenue | £210.6m (2015) |
| Date founded | 1912 |
| Founder | Walter Irwin Mitchell |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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Irwin Mitchell is a firm of solicitors in the United Kingdom, established in Sheffield in 1912. Since the merger with Thomas Eggar in 2015, the firm now has 16 offices across 15 British cities. The firm has more than 180 partners, 900+ associates, consultants, senior advisors and other fee-earners, employing in total over 2,100 people. The company was ranked 17th largest UK based law firm in terms of worldwide revenue in the 2014/2015 year with a turnover of £210.6m.
Irwin Mitchell was founded by Walter Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield in 1912 as a general practice firm. His aim when he founded the company was to provide the highest quality law services to the general public.
The company remained solely in Sheffield until its first expansion into a Birmingham office in 1989, the Leeds arm was next to follow, opening its doors in 1993. The company continued to acquire companies throughout the 1990s, with Sheffield outfit Kershaw Tudor in 1994; Leeds-based corporate and commercial firm Teeman Levine in 1995; and Birmingham corporate specialist Rigbeys in 1996. A City branch was launched in 1995 and added to another series of merger deals - with debt recovery and insolvency firm Braby & Waller in 1998 and personal injury outfit Lorenzo Zurbrugg in 2003. The firm launched in Newcastle in 2003 then opened its sixth office in Manchester in 2006. The company’s expansion went further afield in 2005 with the opening of their offices in Marbella (which then moved to Malaga) and Madrid. The year Irwin Mitchell moved internationally was also the year the firm’s annual turnover broke the £100m barrier.
More recently, Irwin Mitchell acquired specialist personal injury and clinical negligence outfit Alexander Harris in 2006, absorbing the 12-partner firm's offices in London, Solihull and Altrincham and further tightening its hold on the claimant PI market.
In 2016 Irwin Mitchell merged with the Berkshire-headquartered firm of Thomas Eggar which is known for its retail, financial services, technology and media work. This is the biggest merger in the firm’s 103-year history, but the eighth tie-up by the fast-growing outfit since 2012, taking the number of offices nationally to 17. Irwin Mitchell offered 50 training contracts in 2016, while Thomas Eggar offered eight, the merger means the new combined firm will presumably increase its trainee intake to around 60 positions annually. That figure would rank it the ninth in terms of offers of training contracts in the UK.
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