Kerry Underwood

Senior partner , Underwoods Solicitors

Solicitor since 1981. Former Employment Tribunal Judge. Leading expert on conditional fees, funding, and fixed costs. Author of several books on these subjects. Writer and editor of Kerry On Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems And So Much More… Consultant to firms of solicitors, Commonwealth Governments, etc.

24 May 2016

Has the time come for contingency fees?

Is it time to head straight for contingency fees without passing through the intermediary stage of fixed recoverable costs in non-personal injury work, asks Kerry Underwood

26 Apr 2016

Panama Papers: Is client confidentiality sometimes worth breaking?

Kerry Underwood considers that SRA guidance does not go far enough in preventing criminal activity

14 Apr 2016

QOCS gets the John Grisham treatment

Personal injury practitioners should read and use Kerry Underwood's book on QOCS, or they may well lose out, advises Gordon Exall

15 Mar 2016

Austerity ain't working

Kerry Underwood: The real agenda is to stop ordinary people enforcing their rights

22 Jan 2016

Osborne confirms he finds rule of law unnecessary

Kerry Underwood: I am back. Solicitors Journal and I have got back together more times than Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This first piece on my return is direct from parliament

7 May 2014

Back of the net

Real lawyers and traditional values count for something, decides Kerry Underwood, as he shares in the victory of his local football club

8 Apr 2014

Paving the way to totalitarianism

When will the state stop interfering and restricting lawyers' power to help the everyday man, asks Kerry Underwood

11 Mar 2014

Specialism is the order of the day

Meeting the everyday needs of firms as president of a local law society is paramount, says Paul Dyson

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