Fourteen personal injury firms have signed up to a new business scheme to lend weight to issues affecting the sector.
The scheme, devised by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) gives law firms the opportunity to collaborate strategically with APIL, work together to face key challenges in the sector and expand the organisation’s campaigning and research work.
The APIL Corporate Supporter Scheme’s initial founder members are:
- Alderstones
- CFG Law
- Digby Brown
- Enable Law
- Fieldfisher
- Fletchers
- Hodge Jones & Allen
- Hugh James
- Irwin Mitchell
- Osbornes
- RWK Goodman
- Slater & Gordon
- Switalskis
- Thompsons
APIL chief executive Mike Benner anticipates that numbers will grow.
“Injured people and those who represent them have to stay ahead of the game in terms of misconceptions and reforms which are not in the best interest of victims and survivors,” said APIL chief executive Mike Benner.
“APIL has always punched above its weight in this work and now, with the help of firms who have signed up as corporate supporters, we will build on our well-established campaign and research capabilities.”
The initiative works on a basis of turnover-related fee structures and benefit packages. “APIL’s work schedule will continue unchanged: the difference will be seen in three distinct areas which will benefit directly from the income generated by the scheme,” said Mr Benner.
He explained that, alongside investment in developing the scheme, funds will be used to enhance APIL’s judicial review funding capability; support the association’s research function, which is unique to the sector; and help build APIL’s flagship Rebuilding Shattered Lives campaign, which aims to change public perceptions about personal injury and those who rely on it to rebuild their lives after injury.