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Irwin Mitchell is a firm of solicitors in the United Kingdom, established in Sheffield in 1912 and now with offices in 11 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.〔 ==History== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell LLP Solicitors Review – London | Barton Solicitors Legal Advice )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legal Week - Irwin Mitchell )〕 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. The firm was among the first to show its hand on Alternative Business Structure (ABS) when in April 2011 it unveiled plans to generate a £50m war chest of external investment〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell finally gets keys to ABS warchest | News | The Lawyer )〕 and then applied in the first week of January 2012 for ABS status. The company gained this status in August 2012 and is the first to be granted multiple ABS licences by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).〔 Irwin Mitchell launched a television advertising campaign in 2012 to promote its personal injury department. In 2013 Irwin Mitchell sold off its Spanish offices in Madrid and Marbella to Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell sells off Spanish offices to Cremades | News | The Lawyer )〕 also signing an alliance to work together in the future. Also in 2013 the firm acquired personal injury specialists MPH Solicitors, a personal injury boutique specialising in serious injury, medical negligence and armed forces work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell acquires PI specialists MPH Solicitors | News | The Lawyer )〕 In February 2014 the firm announced plans to open an office in Southampton. The office will initially focus on personal injury and court of protection work but is then expected to expand into private client and corporate and commercial work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legal Week - Irwin Mitchell to launch in Southampton for tenth UK base )〕 In April 2014, the firm announced plans to open an office in Cambridge which marked the opening of its tenth UK office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge solicitors Irwin Mitchell prepares for a spike in divorce enquiries in the New Year | Cambridge News )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell makes first strategic move since securing £60m funding with Cambridge launch | News | The Lawyer )〕 Summer 2014 saw the firm launch an ABS with online insurer esure, with a team in the firm's Sheffield office providing legal representation for esure customers who were injured in motor accidents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell launches IMe Law with esure )〕 In November 2014, Irwin Mitchell announced the acquisition of Berkeley Law, a Mayfair-based private wealth specialist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell Acquires Private Wealth Specialists Berkeley Law )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell acquires Mayfair-based Berkeley Law - Yorkshire Post )〕 2015 saw Irwin Mitchell expand its geographic reach, opening a consulting office in Middlesbrough.〔http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/irwin-mitchell-open-latest-consulting-9187047〕 In the same year, Irwin Mitchell subsidiary Ascent acquired the commercial debt recovery division of P&A Receivables Services. 〔https://www.scci.org.uk/2015/07/irwin-mitchell-completes-seventh-acquision-as-expansion-continues/〕 Structurally, Irwin Mitchell is primarily divided into two legal service areas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irwin Mitchell Solicitors | Personal & Business Legal Services )〕 Personal Legal Services Court Of Protection Crime & Investigations Divorce & Family Employment & Work Home & Property International Medical Negligence Money & Tax Personal Injury Compensation Protecting Your Rights Wills & Estates Business Legal Services Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Commoditised Services Construction and Infrastructure Corporate Employment Law Environmental Finance Financial and Other Regulations Insolvency International Investigations and Prosecutions Pensions Planning Property Litigation Real Estate Restructuring Tax 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irwin Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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