Marsh hosts regional law firm briefings on changed risk landscape

London, 12 May 2009

Marsh, the world's leading insurance broker and risk adviser, is undertaking a series of briefings in major cities across England for law firms on how the current economic climate has changed the risk landscape, and to provide an insight on the insurance market for risk transfer products for the profession, including professional indemnity insurance.

Topics to be discussed at the briefings include:

• How the professional indemnity insurance marketplace is changing for law firms in the current economic environment
  
  
• Additional risks and how best to manage them: changes in regulation, dangers of consolidation, financing during the downturn; employment practices, and practice management
  
  
• How litigation funding can help firms and their clients
  
  

Led by Sandra Neilson-Moore, European Practice Leader for Law Firms' Professional Indemnity at Marsh, the briefings will be held as follows:

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne - 18 May, 4pm
  
  
• Leeds - 19 May, 12pm
  
  
• Manchester - 19 May, 4pm
  
  
• London - 21 May, 12.30pm
  
  
• Birmingham - 4 June, 4pm
  
  

Lawyers wishing to attend one of the briefings should contact Carole Porter on .

Details are also available at: http://www.marsh.co.uk/events/09/lawfirms/index.php