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NATIONAL LAW FIRM CLARKE WILLMOTT RE-APPOINTS STURGESS VAN DAMME PUBLIC RELATIONS

Leading South West agency is selected to help “spread the word” about award-winning firm

Clarke Willmott, the award-winning national law firm, has re-appointed the South West‘s leading PR specialists for corporate and professional clients to raise its national profile.

Having been founded in Taunton more than a century ago, Clarke Willmott has achieved massive growth in recent years to become a top 60 law firm, with major offices in Bristol, Birmingham, Southampton and London.

For six years of that growth programme Clarke Willmott engaged West-based PR specialists, Sturgess Van Damme.

More recently Sturgess Van Damme was called in to reinvigorate the profile of Clarke Willmott‘s South West regional office in Taunton, as the largest law centre south of Bristol.

Clarke Willmott has now re-appointed Sturgess Van Damme to deliver a national programme of PR activity for its specialist teams serving such sectors as agriculture, private client & family services, sport, real estate & construction, renewable energy, and retail.  Sturgess Van Damme will also promote the law firm‘s service teams in litigation, employment, and insolvency.

According to David Sedgwick, national Chief Executive at Clarke Willmott: “We worked successfully with Sturgess Van Damme for six years during our transformation from being a South West regional firm to a national firm with regional offices.  They are now working with us on the next stage of our development”.

Sturgess Van Damme‘s Managing Director, David Sturgess, said: “We have always been proud of our work with Clarke Willmott, which is a leading example of how a South West professional business can re-invent itself to command attention on the national stage”.

END               18th February 2009

For further information please contact Louie Hadley, Sturgess Van Damme, on 01275 349011 or email louie@sturgessvandamme.co.uk