Will Sefton
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Professional Negligence: Mainly Defendant
Band 2
About
Provided by Will Sefton
Practice Areas
Will is a Partner and head of RPC's Lawyers Liability and Regulatory group.
Will is an expert in professional and financial risk, professional liability, and regulations that affect law firms and lawyers. Will and his team act on behalf of law firms, insurance brokers, company directors, and a wide range of professionals. He also advises liability insurers on policy coverage. He has extensive experience defending claims of all sizes, ranging from multi-million-pound group litigations in the High Court to smaller individual claims under £50,000. In 2012, he became one of the founding Partners of RPC’s Bristol office.
Career
Will qualified in 2002 at Clifford Chance and became a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP in 2011. He was one of the founding partners of the RPC Bristol office in January 2012.
Publications
Editor of RPC's monthly newsletter on law firm risk, Lawyers Covered
Work Highlights
Brearley v Higgs & Sons (a firm) [2021] EWHC 2635
Mark Reynolds (as liquidator of CSB 123 Limited) v Caroline Stanbury [2021] EWHC 2506
Lennon & Ors v Englefield & Ors [2021] EWHC 1473
Chambers Review
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Will Sefton defends claims for insurers and their insureds, with a particular focus on cases involving allegations of negligence against solicitors and directors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"I rate him and the advice he gives me is always well thought out, practical and sensible."
"I rate him and the advice he gives me is always well thought out, practical and sensible."
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