Crawley based solicitors, stevensdrake, has attracted praise from the leading law directory, The Legal 500. Recognised as the ‘industry bible’ for companies seeking legal advice, The Legal 500 has recommended stevensdrake in five practice areas within the south east region part of the directory:

- Dispute resolution - Debt recovery - Finance - Insolvency and corporate recovery - Private client - Personal tax, trust and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex - Real estate - Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex - TMT (technology, media and telecoms) - Intellectual property

Gavin Pickering was singled-out for praise for Insolvency and Corporate Recovery.

Commenting, Partner, Minesh Patel, said: “Following a two-stage judging process, which included scrutiny of our work over the last year,then interviews with our clients and peers to ask for independent feedback on our performance, the results are used to rank us. We are of course delighted to have been awarded ‘recommended’ status across so many categories and have two of our team singled out for their expertise.”

Minesh added: “As with many businesses, referrals are our lifeblood and it’s great to see that the judges at The Legal 500 appreciated and recognised the feedback they gleaned from our clients. These great results would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of the team towards their clients, they should be rightly proud, as I am, of these results.”