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Roger Coates – product liability: mainly defendant (UK-wide)

quote about your work, what you bring to the job and the clients
I still believe that some good old fashioned virtues of honest dealing and hard work have validity in legal work in the 21st century.

areas of work, expertise and clients
Litigation, often involving technical failings of a product or process which has either caused a disaster, fire, flood or failed to do its job. EL claims for some cancers. Insurance clauses of construction contracts and policy disputes generally.

career history/ route to Buller Jeffries
Articles at an insurance firm in Sheffield ( now part of DLA), a mixed bag of crime and civil work in Leicester, moving to Buller Jeffries in 1965, becoming senior partner in 1973. Deputy Coroner for Birmingham 1970 - 1980.

publications/ professional memberships
Law Society, Birmingham Law Society, FOIL, PNLA, IOD, CII, ACM.

Contact Details
e-mail: roger.coates@bullerjeffries.com

direct line:  0121 200 0406

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