Lawyers must ‘improve, adapt and be flexible’, APIL’s new president says

Injured people face an “ever-tightening screw” and claimant lawyers must be “better at everything we do”, according to the new president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). In his inaugural speech at the 2011 APIL annual conference, David Bott reaffirmed the association’s position it is “plain wrong” for injury victims to take a cut of up to 25% of their rightful compensation to meet some legal costs.