Alex Speirs

As one of very few North East lawyers truly qualified to advise on trusts and probate disputes, Alex has helped many business owners, senior executives, professionals and other wealthy individuals with contentious trusts and probate issues. 

Alex has completed the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate 3-year course and is one of only a few advisers in the region to have done so.

Of course, such matters are always sensitive, personal and potentially stressful, so it helps that Alex is also an experienced commercial litigation lawyer.  Alex is at home handling disputes of all shapes and sizes with confidence, discretion and, if necessary, tenacity with the expertise and people skills to guide you through any inheritance or trusts issues.

Alex provides advice to companies and individuals about protection of intellectual property rights and how to deal with infringement of those rights both a claimant and defendant perspective across a number of sectors. This includes advising on the infringement of trademarks, disputes concerning products with DPO (Protected Designation of Origin) status and copyright infringement.

Alex has significant experience advising on technology disputes including advising a technology company on various contractual claims and advising a technology company in relation to a dispute with a shareholder relating to intellectual property and use and ownership of domain names.

She regularly advises on IT disputes, including disputes arising out of the termination of software contracts.

Alex also provides reputation management advice to clients from the education, investment and technology sectors.

Alex supports a range of clients with contentious data protection work. Recent experience includes advising a financial services business on the defence of a multi-million-pound data breach claim. 

Alex is skilled in advising on a wide range of contractual and tortious disputes for national and international clients across a variety of sectors. She also has significant experience in retail and commercial banking litigation and Financial Conduct Authority disputes.