Harbottle & Lewis
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| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| No. of offices | One |
| No. of lawyers | 77 |
| Major practice areas | Media and entertainment law |
| Revenue |
 £16.8m |
| Date founded | 1955 |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| harbottle.com | |
Harbottle & Lewis is a law firm based in London, United Kingdom which advises clients across the media, communications and entertainment industries.
Harbottle & Lewis has 31 partners and 46 lawyers and in 2009/10 recorded turnover of £16.8m. It is recommended by the independent legal directories The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners in all its core practice areas.
Laurence Harbottle and Brian Lewis met at Law School in Guildford in 1951. Both lawyers had a special interest in the legal aspects of film production and theatre and in December 1955 established Harbottle & Lewis with its office in South Molton Street, Mayfair. While Brian Lewis concentrated on film guarantees and film productions, Laurence Harbottle mainly acted for film producers as well as writers, actors and technicians.
With advances in technology, their firm grew and developed its television and music industry expertise. More recently Harbottle & Lewis has also built specialist practice areas in electronic commerce and interactive entertainment.
The firm moved from South Molton Street to its current location on Hanover Square in May 1988.
Laurence Harbottle served as solicitor to friends Laurence Olivier and Dirk Bogarde. The firm's clients presently include The Prince of Wales, and subsequently his sons The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
In 2006 Harbottle & Lewis acted on behalf of Prince Charles in engaging with the Metropolitan Police's investigations with regards to the hacking of the phones of his sons, Princes William and Harry, in the News of the World royal phone hacking scandal. That scandal subsequently led to the dismissal of News of the World reporter Clive Goodman. When Goodman sued for unfair dismissal, Harbottle & Lewis were hired by the News of the World's parent company, News International.
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