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Merseyside personal injury law firm joins nationwide group

The major law firm Slater & Gordon has completed its tie-up with the Liverpool personal injury firm Goodmans Law.

Confirmation of the deal comes less than a fortnight after the Australian listed firm announced the acquisition of London and Manchester-based personal injury specialists Fentons alongside its latest financials.

Slater & Gordon’s UK arm posted revenues of £46.1m to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) last week, a 10 per cent increase on 2011/12 on the like-for-like revenues in the previous year.

Goodmans is a personal injury specialist based in Waterloo, north Liverpool, with a stong focus on medical negligence and catastrophic injuries and employs 36 people. The Goodmans team, which consists of three partners and 14 lawyers, will remain in the Merseyside office.

Chief executive Neil Kinsella said the acquisition would see the firm’s geographic operations extend to Liverpool for the first time. He added:“Goodmans Law has specialist expertise in brain and spinal injuries and claims arising from problems at birth.”

Goodmans Law director Ian Cohen added: “We’re very proud of our heritage as a firm and look forward to bringing our local knowledge of Merseyside and our professional excellence in personal injury and medical negligence claims to Slater & Gordon.”

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