Tim Palmer
Director of best practice
Tim is director of best practice and a member of the firm’s executive board and strategy board. The best practice team combines Penningtons Manches Cooper’s compliance, risk management and knowledge functions which focus on keeping the firm safe and continuing to help ‘make it better’.
Between 2010 and 2022, Tim headed the firm’s private individuals division, which provides high-quality advice on tax, family law and succession issues as well as a broad range of other services enabling private clients to achieve their personal goals. As a partner in the medical negligence and personal injury team, he represented claimants for more than 20 years, successfully concluding many cases through negotiated settlements and, where necessary, at trial.
With my team of expert compliance and regulatory lawyers, knowledge lawyers and risk management specialists, I advise and support the firm in meeting its legal and regulatory obligations. I work with the firm’s management team to ensure that these matters are constantly at the front of mind both in day-to-day activities and in our strategic planning.
Tim is accredited as a mediator by the Centre For Dispute Resolution and has been on the approved solicitors lists of the Spinal Injuries Association and Headway. He has also been a member of the Law Society’s medical negligence panel, the AvMA specialist medical negligence panel and the Legal Aid Agency’s review panel. In 2016, Tim was appointed an honorary AvMA panel member, which is awarded to selected former AvMA panel members in order to recognise the longstanding and significant contribution that an individual has made in the field of clinical negligence and patient safety as well as to the work of AvMA.
