About us
We are dedicated to finding smarter, faster, and more efficient ways to solve legal problems, enabling our clients to move forward with confidence.
Through our expert team of lawyers and the partnerships we build, we put our clients at the forefront. Providing connected teams invested in client success, providing fresh perspectives to complex challenges enabling our clients to make clear and confident decisions. We believe the way that we interact and work together enables us to continue to enhance and develop the genuine relationships we have with clients.
We are not just responding to today's legal challenges. We are anticipating tomorrow's needs. And this is what makes us different.
Our values and culture
Our core values define how we operate as a firm and underpin everything we do.
This ensures that we have a joined-up approach, often working across offices and departments, to make sure we deliver the best possible outcome for you.
We put our clients at the centre of everything we do and always think about how best to communicate and work together.
We adopt a commercial approach to everything we do. This means that we are always keen to make sure you receive the best possible service at a competitive rate.
Our culture
Our success as a firm is a reflection of the professional and personal fulfilment of our people.
That's why we place so much emphasis on creating a supportive work environment that provides opportunities, encourages participation and fosters achievement. Our culture is open and approachable, with a friendly welcome for new employees.
The VWV group
We listen to and engage with our clients to ensure that we can provide the best solutions for their needs, the VWV group is made up of a number of different business entities.
As the legal landscape evolves, we will continue to evaluate this and seek opportunities to develop additional services and products to support the ever-changing needs of our clients. The group consists of:
Narrow Quay HR is a trading name of Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP and is the HR consultancy team run by a team of experienced HR professionals who provide tailored solutions, based on your needs across all aspects of HR.
Narrow Quay Solutions is a trading name of Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP and is a financial consultancy team. By understanding client needs we can share practical, schools specific insight on financial feasibility for specified projects, operational efficiencies and provide fractional finance director support, either on a project or an ongoing basis.
Cairneagle is a strategy consulting firm, with a history in the education space and increasingly in other sectors, such as healthcare.
VWV Approach is a legal referral network of over 230 law firms nationally. It is a free to join legal referral and support network. As a member, firms can introduce work that they choose not to do or where there is a conflict, to VWV, without risk of losing their client. Membership provides member firms clients with access to a full range of legal services and provides the member firms with access to other benefits.
Members benefit from:
- Being able to offer a wide range of services to their clients.
- A written non-poaching agreement ensuring that clients are retained.
- Increased income - provided the matter is not publicly funded or a criminal matter, we will pay the firm a share of fees. This can be waived if that is the preference.
- Free legal assistance from our lawyers for member firms to bounce ideas off them or talk through issues.
VWV Plus offers a range of e-learning courses and products as such; Immigration Manager, Policy Tracker and more. The VWV Plus team work closely alongside the VWV lawyers, who help to build and maintain our products. This enables us to provide our clients with best practice products and solutions that meet specific legislative requirements. Affordable and flexible pricing is at the heart of our approach. We present our clients with choice, where possible enabling them to self-serve and administer the e-learning and products in-house. Our business model allows us to partner with leaders in their field, enabling us to broaden the solutions we offer. We are always interested to hear about the areas that our clients would like support, so that we can continue to build relevant solutions that will be of value.
Overall I was really pleased with the service received. I deal with a lot of professional advisors in my work and most do not live up to my expectations, so VWV was a rare exception. I would not hesitate to recommend VWV.
