About Clark Willis

Clark Willis Law Firm are a specialist practice of lawyers whose ethos is to make legal advice, simple, straight forward and with no catches.  We deliver speedy, no nonsense, quality legal advice on a very wide range of everyday legal matters, for both private paying and legal aid clients.  We are one of the few firms in the area to hold more than four Legal Service Commission franchises, and shortly hope to receive two more. 

The way we do this is by dividing the firm into 10 departmental practice areas all of which are lead by an experienced lawyer as a department head. 
They are:
 
Family & Child Care
led by partner Mr Phil Duffy

Personal Injury Claims
led by partner Paul Smith

Property
led by Associate Jane Mafham-Jackson, which deals with property sales, purchases, leases and related matters. 

Criminal Defence
led by partner Chris Bunting.

Vulnerable & Elderly Client
led by Associate Victoria Burrows, which deals with Mental Health, Court of Protection, Powers of Attorney, Wills, Probate, and Community Care law.

Housing
led by Associate Kelly Bushby, which deals with evictions, re-possessions, disrepair claims, homelessness. 

Litigation
led by senior partner Jonathan Willis, which deals with consumer law, contract law and all other forms of civil disputes.  

Employment
led by senior partner Peter Furness

Medical/Clinical Negligence
led by consultant solicitor Peter Maughan
 
Welfare Benefits & Debt
led by supervisor Mathew Sigsworth


Our offices are in Darlington, County Durham and Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire in addition to which we operate a flexible outreach service across the North East extending to Newcastle & Leeds.