# Bird & Bird LLP - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.twobirds.com - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) A UK-headquartered international law firm that says it has over 130 privacy lawyers for UK and EU data-protection and AI law. It also sells outsourced DPO services. ## Bird & Bird scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 4/5 Practice explicitly covers data breaches, investigations and 'enforcement actions by authorities'; ran a 'From Breach to Resolution' cyber-incident-lifecycle webinar (Feb 2026); Chambers 2025 notes the team is 'relied on...to advise on difficult issues.' ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 5/5 SRA-authorised recognised body (no. 497264) for all legal services; Companies House OC340318; top-tier Chambers and Legal 500 2025 rankings for UK data protection and privacy. ### What it publishes about fees: 2/5 Publishes an hourly-rate range (£275-£815) on its Price Transparency page, but this is scoped only to Employment Tribunal claims; DP/AI advisory fees are bespoke and unpublished. ### Knowledge of your sector: 5/5 130+ dedicated privacy lawyers; named practice leaders (Boardman, Mole, Tan); published GDPR Guide, EU AI Act Guide and Age Assurance Guide; several lawyers are former DPA regulators (Irish DPC, CNIL). ### Independence from what it sells: 3/5 No proprietary compliance software is sold, but Privacy Solutions offers outsourced-DPO services 'at the junction of legal and consultancy services' to the same clients it advises legally. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 3/5 Operates as an LLP (Companies House OC340318) under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, which by statute limits individual partners' personal liability; PII excludes affiliated cooperation-agreement firms' defaults. ## Sources for Bird & Bird Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Companies House registration - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC340318 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - SRA authorisation - Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/more-information/regulatory-information-concerning-bird-and-bird - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Professional indemnity insurance - Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/more-information/legal-notices - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Size and leadership of the Privacy & Data Protection practice - Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/capabilities/practices/privacy-and-data-protection - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Published hourly-rate range - Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/more-information/price-transparency - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Firm's own AI-use safeguards - Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/more-information/privacy - Checked: 2026-09-19 - The SRA prosecuted a former registered European lawyer who headed a team at Bird & Bird (Belgium) LLP's Brussels office before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal; an Agreed Outcome approved on 19 August 2024 bars him for five years from being employed or remunerated by any SRA-regulated firm, or from holding a manager role or interest in one, without Law Society permission. - Source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/573596/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Published - Indemnity cover: Published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Published ## Strengths - One of the larger dedicated data-protection/AI practices among UK-facing law firms: 130+ specialist lawyers with 25+ years' collective experience in the practice area. - Named, findable practice leadership (Ruth Boardman, Ariane Mole, Jeremy Tan) plus lawyers who are former data-protection-authority staff (Irish DPC, CNIL) or EU law co-drafters. - Publishes its own AI-use safeguards in its public privacy policy (no client data used for AI model training; human review of AI-assisted outputs). - Publishes SRA registration number, Companies House number and named professional-indemnity insurers on its own site. ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - The firm's professional indemnity insurance does not cover firms it merely has a co-operation agreement with, even where they trade under a related name. - Basis: Own Legal Notices page states: 'Practices identified elsewhere on this website as firms with whom Bird & Bird has a co-operation agreement or other working arrangements are not part of Bird & Bird and our professional indemnity insurances do not cover their defaults.' - Published fee/rate transparency covers only Employment Tribunal claims, not data-protection or AI-governance advisory work. - Basis: The Price Transparency page publishes hourly rates and cost ranges solely under an 'Employment Tribunals' heading; no equivalent published rate card exists for DP/AI advisory engagements. - The firm's Privacy Solutions arm sells outsourced-DPO and consultancy services to the same client base it also advises on as external legal counsel. - Basis: Firm's own Privacy Solutions page states the offering 'is at the junction of legal and consultancy services' and includes 'outsourced DPO as a service.' ## Where this firm appears - [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment) - [After a data breach: what UK law asks of you](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/post-breach) - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Which data protection, AI governance and cyber security providers publish a price?](https://theassurancedesk.com/lists/providers-that-publish-a-price) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.