Refer to Thompsons Case Referral Form
Scotland's most flexible case referrals
Welcome to Refer to Thompsons, a new service offered by Thompsons Scotland LLP. The service is for firms, solicitors, trainees and other professionals across Scotland, and out-with, to refer clients who need advice about a personal injury claim.
Whether you are a firm, solicitor or other professional dealing with work out-with the personal injury space or your own personal injury team is currently at capacity and you just need an extra pair of hands, Refer to Thompsons allows you to access a expert Personal injury service for your clients.
Our service helps you maintain client trust by referring your client to a vetted reputable team of experts.
Since the opening of our first Scottish office in Edinburgh in 1979 we’ve built a reputation for being formidable litigators. Our reputation grew from the knowledge that a Thompsons lawyer always took a fearless approach to prosecuting civil claims in Scotland’s Supreme Court and the multiple successes that approach ensured. With such a reputation for excellence and expertise in the supreme court, the first referrals made to our firm came as Court of Session agency instructions. From those beginnings, Thompsons has expanded the service to offer on-demand legal advice to a wider network of solicitor firms, individual solicitors, trainees and professionals across Scotland, the wider UK and the United States.
Thompsons Scotland are a multi award winning firm, recognised for their, client focused, tailored approach to each case. We are dedicated to obtaining a result in every case we deal with. Such dedication means we often succeed with claims for clients who come to us after other firms in Scotland turn their case down. Our decades of experience and traditions mean we do not give up easily, choosing to not just look at evidence we’re provided with, but to interrogate that evidence, in every case that comes our way.
When you refer to Thompsons, you have a vehicle which allows you to ensure your loyal client receives legal advice from the most experienced team.
Our expertise runs across multiple niche areas. No one knows more than us about succeeding in complex and challenging cases as well as ensuring maximum recovery for all client’s claims.
Your client is in good hands; their case will be allocated to the suitable team across our multiple micro-specialist areas. Each team is supported by Scotland’s largest specialist solicitor advocacy unit. Our case specialisms run from road traffic and workplace accidents to asbestos-related disease, respiratory illness and historic abuse, the list continues. Our Life Impact team holds decades of experience in dealing with Serious Injury and Fatal claims, supporting clients through every difficult step and ensuring we always seek the best possible rehabilitation outcomes in spinal, brain and limb amputation cases.
In short, you should refer when you and your client feel completely comfortable about doing so. Refer to Thompsons fits around you and your client’s preferences. You may want to refer the case from the outset or take a precognition and gather information before passing on.
As soon as you are ready to refer, we offer a seamless referral process, quick, secure and transparent. If you are ready to refer you can opt to complete the online form, call us or use our dedicated APP.
Sometimes, all you need is a friendly chat to help steer you in the right direction. Refer to Thompsons was designed to help build relationships between Thompsons and other solicitors across Scotland. We are therefore happy to chat through any difficult case to help you decide on the best route forward. To discuss your case referral, just call our Jayne Crawford on 07966840642.
A crucial part of any personal injury case is funding. Clients want a worry & risk-free journey through their personal injury claim. A worry- and risk-free journey is just what’s on offer. We ensure full funding of outlays as the case progresses, which allows every case’s full preparation to ensure maximised results in court. We operate on a No Win, No fee model, offering a damages-based fee structure.
We are happy to look at personal injury cases in the following categories:.
- Accidents at work
- RTA
- Occupiers Liability
- Public Liability
- Product liability
- Industrial disease
- Asbestos related disease
- Accidents abroad or accidents involving foreign nationals in Scotland
- Historic abuse
- Serious injury
- Fatal cases
- Clinical negligence
Claims which are not covered include CICA or Redress scheme compensation payments. Speak to us if you have a client requiring advice in these areas.
*We will always try to assist clients referred through our network of referral partners in the same way we have been doing for our clients who come direct, for decades. Not every case starts off looking like a great case, sometimes it takes time to interrogate and recover the evidence to allow a prospects assessment to be undertaken. This means, from time to time, we will need time to carry out initial investigations before the case’s prospects can be assessed and allow us to fully commit to proceed with the claim. If this situation arises, we will keep you advised of a need to defer payment of a referral fee until such investigations are concluded.
Refer to Thompsons Case Referral Form
In short - when you feel completely comfortable about doing so.
Many partner firms prefer to refer a case to us from the very outset, others prefer to obtain a precognition before passing it on. For some partners, they like to investigate then intimate the claim themselves, bringing us in as the case develops, or when insurers reject the claim or even introduce unnecessary delays into proceedings. Refer to Thompsons fits around you and your client needs, whether it’s at the early outset of the case build or after extensive preparation. When it’s time to refer, you can pick up the phone, send us an email, or organise an in person or virtual meeting to discuss your case or complete the form on our App.
The service we provide has always been a flexible one, designed to put the referrer firm, alongside their client, in control. Whether and to what extent a refer firm remains involved, once Thompsons have been instructed, is a decision for them and their client, some remain involved at ever step whilst others prefer to hand over the case, safe in the knowledge, that Thompsons deliver on service to their client.
You can decide the level of involvement you’d like to have. You might choose either:
- Full Referral Mode: you send us the details; we pay a one-off referral fee for the information you collate, and we handle the claim to its conclusion.
- Joint Handling Model: we will discuss your preferred communication methods at the outset and put in place a system for that.
Refer to Thompsons is designed with you and your client in mind, that’s why it’s the most flexible referral service available to Solicitors in Scotland.
When you refer your case to Thompsons, it is still your case - the client is still your client. This never changes. How we communicate with your client is vitally important to help bolster your relationship and enhance the client’s view that you not only remain involved, but that you’re integral to the ongoing case development.
This can include dual branded letter heading, meetings taking place in your offices, settlement cheques coming directly from you; whatever you feel most comfortable with, Refer to Thompsons is designed to help strengthen your relationship and reputation with your clients, long after the successful conclusion of the case.
You have the flexibility to remain as involved as you wish, in perception and practice.
Sometimes, all you need is a friendly chat to help steer you in the right direction.
Refer to Thompsons was designed to help build relationships between Thompsons and other solicitors across Scotland, and as such, we will happily chat through any difficult cases you have to help you decide on the best route forward – without any cost or obligation to you.
What else would you expect from the most flexible personal injury referral service available to Scottish solicitors today? To discuss your case further, just call Jayne Crawford on 07966840642.
When you refer you’re choosing not just the most flexible personal injury referral service available, you’re choosing a multi-disciplined firm that puts your client's interest first. Thompsons Scotland are a multi award winning firm, recognised for their, client focused, tailored approach to each case. We are dedicated to obtaining a result in every case we deal with. Such dedication means we often succeeding with claims for clients who came to us after other firms in Scotland had turned their cases down. Our decades of experience and traditions mean we do not give up easily, choosing to not just look at evidence we’re provided with, but to interrogate that evidence in every case that comes our way.
Our expertise runs across multiple niche areas. No one knows more than us about succeeding in complex and challenging cases as well as ensuring maximum recovery for all client’s claims.
