Graham Reid
UK Guide 2025
Band 5 : Professional Discipline
Band 5
About
Provided by Graham Reid
Practice Areas
Partner Graham Reid is an expert on professional negligence claims against lawyers, professional ethics and regulation, investigations by regulators, insurance coverage for lawyers’ professional insurance, risk management, and the governance of professional firms. He typically acts on behalf of lawyers, law firms, insurers of law firms, and other kinds of professional services businesses such as accountants, litigation funders, and providers of claims management services.
Professional Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Work Highlights
Afan Valley Ltd & Ors v Lupton Fawcett (A Firm) & Others [2024] EWHC 909 (KB) (23 April 2024) - £65 million-plus claim against a law firm.
Coverage issues arising from the collapse of Axiom Ince Ltd.
Successfully defending a solicitor from allegations of improper ‘eavesdropping’ before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Chambers Review
UK
Graham Reid handles a range of complex professional disciplinary matters often focused on but not limited to representing law firms and individual lawyers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Graham is practical and has an intimate, encyclopaedic knowledge of the regulatory space of the SRA."
"Graham is very good to work with and provides thoughtful advice on difficult questions."
"He is technically excellent and very pragmatic."
"Graham is practical and has an intimate, encyclopaedic knowledge of the regulatory space of the SRA."
"Graham is very good to work with and provides thoughtful advice on difficult questions."
"He is technically excellent and very pragmatic."