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About Stephens Scown

About Stephens Scown LLP You can turn to Stephens Scown for help in your business, financial or family life. Sometimes it might be with an opportunity, sometimes a problem. Either way, you know you’re guaranteed friendly, honest and professional help from a team of legal experts who always have your best interests at heart. It’s a refreshing approach to law which has seen us forge long-lasting client relationships, some stretching back more than fifty years. Being passionate about the South West means we specialise in industries common throughout the region – food and drink, tourism, mining, green energy and more. But we also help a wide range of businesses with their day to day corporate and commercial affairs, from leases to employment, debt recovery to insolvency. And we’re there for those tricky moments in your personal life too – home moves, separation, employment disputes and more. With 200 staff and 31 partners across our three offices in Exeter, Truro and St Austell, we’re a law firm with a regional focus but all the benefits of a big city rival. No wonder legal industry bible Chambers describes us as a ‘dominant force’ in the marketplace, and we feature in The Lawyer magazine’s prestigious Top 200 rankings. You’ll start to feel the benefits of working with Stephens Scown from the moment you get in touch – so what are you waiting for?

Innovative online campaign launched to answer planning queries

Leading South West law firm Stephens Scown LLP is to launch an innovative online campaign by using Twitter to answer questions on planning law. As part of the firm’s Planning Week (#planningweek), lawyers from the largest specialist planning team in …

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Stephens Scown’s commercial property team on the up!

Leading South West law firm, Stephens Scown LLP, continues to boost its expertise within the commercial property sector, with the on-going expansion of the team. There have been eight new recruits within the last year, including the retention of four …

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Specialist renewables team exceed 200MW of power produced

Specialist renewable energy solicitors at Stephens Scown LLP have passed another milestone having calculated that the projects they have worked on are now generating enough power to boil a kettle more than six million times. The team has worked with …

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Using sustainability to create a unique brand

Over 50 members of the South West business community gathered at Stephen Scown’s office for their bi-annual Business Class event, which took place on 25 April. Guest speaker for this event was Michael Smith, co-owner and managing director of South …

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Event to address latest energy position in Cornwall

Cornish businesses will have a chance to find out the latest position of renewable energy in the county at an event being held at The Hall for Cornwall on 13 June. The event is being organised by the specialist renewable …

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Inspired by a Dragon?

Business people are being offered the chance to hear how the Dragons Den entrepreneurs hand out their money to help businesses grow. The corporate team at Stephens Scown solicitors has represented a number of investors from the BBC Dragon’s Den …

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Outstanding Beth awarded prestigious legal prize

A trainee solicitor at Stephens Scown LLP has been awarded the esteemed Sir George Fowler Prize in 2012 by the Devon and Somerset Law Society at their recent AGM in Exeter. Beth Johnson was awarded the prize after gaining the …

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Businesses to hear the benefits of planning at next Exeter Energy Exchange

Businesses will have a chance to find out more about the current planning system and its impact on energy projects at the latest Exeter Energy Exchange, which takes place on 23 May. The event is being organised by leading South …

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Award shortlists for Stephens Scown

Leading South West law firm, Stephens Scown LLP, is proud to be shortlisted in three awards: one regional and two national. The first is the Cornwall Business Awards 2013, where Stephens Scown has been shortlisted within the Customer Focus category. …

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Stephens Scown – helping control the costs of litigation

At Stephens Scown, we pride ourselves on the quality of our lawyers, the advice we give and helping our clients find the right solutions in difficult situations. We recognise, particularly in the current economic climate, that if a dispute arises …

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