Battens - Rising 50 - 2005

Turnover: £8.8m

Revenue per partner: £400,000

Revenue per lawyer: £141,900

Total number of partners: 22

Total number of fee-earners: 183

Total number of fee-earners (excluding consultants, paralegals, trainees etc): 62

Total number of support staff: 194

Offices: Crewkerne, Dorchester, Sherborne, Weymouth, Yeovil

Equity structure: Merit

Core business: Civil litigation, commercial, commercial property, employment, family, litigation, personal injury (at incorporated subsidiary LAW), planning, private client, property conveyancing

Clients: Abbey Manor Group, CG Fry & Son, Honeywell Normalair Garrett, Westland Helicopters

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