SCOTT Rees & Co Solicitors has recruited three more bilingual staff to make its services more accessible to ethnic communities.

Eva Jelinkova, who speaks Slovak and Czech, Dogus Usta, who speaks Turkish, and Michael Przylucki, who speaks Polish, have all joined the Lancashire personal injury firm as bi-lingual trainee paralegals.

They form part of a team that can offer services in 14 different languages, as well as English.

The firms now offers French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Slovak, Czech, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Bengali.

The Skelmersdale-based outfit handles thousands of personal injury claims from across the UK. It specialises in debt recovery services, wills and probate, and conveyancing.

Dogus Usta, 35, Michael Przylucki, 27, and Eva Jelinkova, 29, have all begun in-house training.

David Byrne, Marketing Partner at Scott Rees, said: “Scott Rees is focused on ensuring its services are accessible to all.

“Employing bilingual paralegals with a cross-section of language abilities makes our services available to a much wider audience.

“It’s an immense benefit to our clients to communicate in their own language and helps ensure the smooth and efficient handling of claims.”