In November 2011, the Law Society commissioned IFF Research to conduct research among law firms in England and Wales to understand their perceptions and experiences of effecting professional indemnity insurance (PII) for the period 2011-12. An equivalent survey has been conducted annually since 2008.
A telephone survey was conducted with 600 law firms ranging in size from sole practitioners to firms with 25 partners (firms with more than 25 partners were ineligible for the study).
Data were weighted to be representative of the Law Society's member population by size (number of partners) and region.