Insurer acquires Bristol-based personal injury specialist CW Law
Legal expenses insurer DAS Group has bought Bristol-based law firm CW Law.
CW Law was recently granted an alternative business structure (ABS) licence by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
The application, among the first 30 submitted to the SRA, was based on the proposal that the firm would become part of the DAS Group.
CW Law currently employs over 60 staff, and specialises in personal injury, employment and property disputes.
DAS UK chief executive Paul Asplin will become chairman of CW Law.
Asplin said: “Now that we have finally realised the long-held ambition to incorporate a law firm into the DAS Group, we are in a position to move ahead with our plans to position DAS as a significant provider of legal services as well as the leading legal protection insurer.
“Not only will owning a law firm enable us to offer a seamless service to our policyholders with legal protection claims, but it will also put us in a position to provide fixed-price legal services to consumers.“
The acquisition of CW Law follows DAS’s purchase of Everything Legal, owners of legal consumer information website lawontheweb.co.uk at the end of 2011.
DAS head of legal services Kathryn Mortimer said: “The process has been extremely demanding, but we are delighted to finally receive the go-ahead.
“We are determined to make legal assistance accessible, understandable and cost predictable, and to position DAS at the forefront of this exciting new development in the legal world.
“Owning a law firm will bring other more subtle benefits, such as the ability to expand the functionality of our hugely popular telephone legal advice service to deliver written advice via email and other digital platforms.
“The next steps will be to integrate the firm into the group and then launch it as DAS Law.”
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