A Manchester firm, which has quadrupled its workforce in less than two years, is pushing on with ambitious growth plans for 2023 by adding 20 staff to its legal team this month.
Barings Law, which specialises in representing consumers and businesses who have been victims of mis-selling, began in 2009. It has since won back millions of pounds in compensation for clients and invested a substantial amount of money into automation and AI. The city centre firm is now recruiting 20 more staff, comprising paralegals and solicitors to run its expanding base of cases.
Practice manager, Anil Kara, said: “I grow more and more proud of our achievements every day. To see how the firm has developed over the years is truly astonishing. There is a real appetite for automation within the business and investing in tech-driven processes, which will allow us to better serve our clients.
“The single biggest driver for us is knowing we’re helping people get access to justice. It can be daunting for an individual to take on corporate giants alone, which is why we have a track record of facilitating successful group actions.”
The private equity-backed firm is now adding more high-profile data breach cases, namely FatFace and South Staffs Water, to its portfolio. Among the firm’s prominent wins are recovering more than £13m in damages for clients following Carphone Warehouse’s £29m FCA fine over the mis-selling of its ‘Geek Squad’ insurance product. Barings said it was also first to secure every leading judgment in unfair relationships involving high cost, short lending and breaches of the FCA’s Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC).
