Our credentials

Digby Brown Solicitors claim to be the number one law firm of personal injury lawyers in Scotland. We have detailed below some of the reasons behind why we believe this.

Top ranked personal injury firm in Scotland

Digby Brown has been top-ranked in Chambers & Partners for the last 19 years, and in The Legal 500 for the last 15 years.

What does that mean?  These directories are the who’s who of the legal sector across the United Kingdom, with dedicated sections covering each region and area of expertise. They are compiled by interviewing other legal firms and associated organisations and finding out who they regard as experts in any chosen legal field.

The Law Society of Scotland, our governing body, ranks 14 of the partners and 7 of the associates in the firm as specialists in the field of personal injury and around a half of all the personal injury lawyers in Scotland listed by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) work at Digby Brown.

Award winning law firm

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In 2024 Digby Brown was recognised as Litigation Team of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards, recognising the firm’s GPIL Regional team – comprised of our Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Kirkcaldy offices – and their work in making sure injured victims and bereaved families get the justice they deserve.

In 2023, Digby Brown won Litigation Team of the Year and the Community Contribution Award at the Scottish Legal Awards recognising the firm's leading work in helping people affected by road traffic collisions and workplace accidents, and highlighting the charity efforts of our staff to support around 20 charities across the nation.

In 2022, Digby Brown won the prestigious Firm of the Year award at the 2022 Scottish Legal Awards following 12 months of record results and tireless campaigning.

In 2021, Digby Brown won the Litigation Team of the Year at the 2021 Scottish Legal Awards in recognition of the remarkable success of our Serious Injury department over the last 12 months.

In 2020, Digby Brown's Serious Injury team also won Catastrophic Injury Team of the year at the 2020 Personal Injury Awards, which are UK wide and recognises the top law firms across the UK. The firm were also thrilled to retain the award for Community Contribution at the Scottish Legal Awards. 

In 2016, we were honoured to be named Law Firm of the Year (over 40 fee earners) and Corporate Social Responsibility Firm of the Year at the Law Awards 2016.

In March 2015, Digby Brown was named Scotland’s Number One SME by Business Insider. In the same month, Digby Brown won a series of accolades at the 2015 Scott & Co. Legal Awards: we were named Firm of the Year, recognised as the Employer of the Year, named Litigation Team of the Year and received the Community Contribution award for the second year running.

Personal injury solicitor of choice

We are recommended as the personal injury solicitor of choice by a number of national charities including Spinal Injuries Scotland and Asbestos Action as well as being listed in legal directories by Headway (the Brain Injury Charity) and being leading campaigners in Scotland for safety on our roads, helping Brake, the road safety charity.

Focused on clients

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Clients are at the centre of everything we do. To make sure all our clients receive the very best experience with Digby Brown, we provide the opportunity for them to review and rate the service they receive from us via the independent consumer review website Trustpilot. Hundreds of clients have provided feedback on their experience with us and we are proud that they give us an average score of 4.8/5.

As we have grown, our commitment to being a business that invests in and supports its people and does the right things has remained constant.

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In November 2016, we became the first law firm in the UK to achieve Platinum Level Accreditation from Investors in People.

This involved a two stage assessment process covering Reward and Recognition, Learning and Development, Strategy and Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, Involvement and Empowerment, Continuous Improvement, People Management and Leadership. The prestigious rankings are conducted every three years with platinum, gold, silver and standard bandings, only 3% of UK businesses ever achieve platinum.

We were able to maintain Platinum Level Accreditation in 2019, and were awarded our third consecutive Platinum award in 2022.

Accredited legal practice by APIL

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Digby Brown Solicitors are firm-wide accredited specialists in personal injury law by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).  To be an accredited practice of APIL the firm must adhere to a seven step criteria set by APIL:

1. The organisation must be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or Bar Standards Board
2. There must be at least one accredited senior litigator (or above) at each branch who has personal responsibility for the supervision and management of personal injury cases
3. Client care - there must be a consistently high standard of client care throughout the firm
4. Training and development - the organisation ensures that all staff are provided with training opportunities to improve their skills and legal knowledge, and to meet the needs of clients;
5. Supervision – each senior litigator or fellow can only supervise up to ten personal injury lawyers
6. Quality assurance - there must be a comprehensive and documented procedure for who should authorise each stage of your case, and a similar procedure for how case files are reviewed
7. The organisation agrees to have its performance monitored by APIL to ensure standards are being maintained.

Living Wage Employer

Digby Brown is an accredited Living Wage employer and has been certified by the Living Wage Foundation. Our people are central to our values and we believe that by investing in our employees, we not only improve their wellbeing, but improve our services. Meeting employee and client needs is at the forefront of Digby Brown’s ethos and we are therefore proud to be a Living Wage employer.