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James Taylor Associate Solicitor

Service: Business Disputes, Countryside Commercial, Debt Recovery, Business Employment, Countryside, Disputes, Employment

Office: Bradley Stoke, Bristol, Staple Hill, Yate

Telephone: 01454 204880

Email: James

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What was your first-ever job?

A drugs runner – on my bike delivering medicine to pensioners for the local pharmacist.

What was your worst ­experience as a trainee?

Crashing my boss’s sports car into a bollard whilst he was in court appealing against a nasty order made against me some weeks earlier. He won. The bollard won. I didn’t win.

What do you do at weekends?

Try to keep my two boys amused, sink a pint or two of real ale, play some blues harmonica/bass guitar with a friend, cook a curry, go to church, and get a little shooting in as “me” time.

2006: Joined Wards
2004: Qualified as a mediator
2001: Bevans, Bristol, litigation
1998: Blakemores Solicitors, Tetbury, general high street practice
1997: Qualified in niche litigation firm
1994: Legal Practice Course
1990: UWE Bristol, LLB in European Law & Languages, with a year in local government in Laval, France


James is a specialist in mediation and Financial Services disputes. Click on either discipline to read about his experience in these areas.