LEIGH DAY - Key Persons
Adam Lamb is an associate solicitor in the medical negligence department.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Alex Wessely is a senior associate solicitor in the international department.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Alice Ramsay is a senior associate solicitor in the employment department.
Alika is a solicitor apprentice in the human rights department
Aman Thakar is an associate solicitor in the employment department.
Andrew Cooper is an associate solicitor in the industrial disease team.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Andrew Lord is a senior associate solicitor in the abuse claims team.
Angela is a leading product safety and consumer rights lawyer. She also co-manages the food safety team at the London office.
Partner Bethany Sanders leads the personal injury team in Leeds. The team specialises in serious injury claims, including brain and spinal injury, amputee claims and fatal accidents.
Bethany has extensive experience of representing clients whose injuries arise from road traffic collisions, such as pedestrians and cyclists, as well as accidents at work and public/occupiers liability claims. She only acts for claimants and has represented many individuals who have sustained life-changing injuries, working with them to ensure rehabilitation is in place as soon as possible.
Carol Day has worked in the environmental sector for over 25 years. She trained as a solicitor at Leigh Day and re-joined the firm to run the environmental litigation service in 2013.
After completing an MSc in Nature Conservation (UCL), Carol started her career in the voluntary sector as a campaigner working on environmental policy. Through her employment with two County Wildlife Trusts (Warwickshire and Surrey) and a decade on planning and site safeguard work with WWF-UK, she developed an in-depth understanding of UK/EU environmental issues.
Chris is the firm's managing partner and a specialist claimant employment lawyer
Partner Clare Campbell handles cases on behalf of clients who have been injured or contracted illnesses whilst on holiday. Associate solicitor Joseph Dawson specialises exclusively in international travel injury claims. Partner Ross Whalley handles personal injury claims on behalf of trade union members, including accident at work claims.
Joint head of the firm's asbestos and industrial diseases team and acknowledged as a leader in this field
Elizabeth George is a barrister with expertise in all areas of employment law.
Emma runs the team working on the contaminated blood inquiry
Emma is a leading employment and discrimination lawyer. She is co-head of the employment department, alongside Nigel MacKay
Emmalene is a partner and experienced clinical negligence lawyer with over 15 years' experience.
Partner Ewan Tant has more than eight years' experience in acting for victims of asbestos exposure. He is an accredited APIL senior litigator.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Fiona Allen Is Director of the HR Team
Frances was the firm's first managing partner from 2010 to 2021, and was a partner in the regulatory and disciplinary department, the human rights department, and clinical negligence department.
Gene specialises in consumer law, product liability and data protection claims mainly brought as group claims/ multi-party actions
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Joint Head of the Asbestos and Industrial Diseases, Internationally Renowned for Her Role Fighting for Victims of Asbestos
Joint head of the asbestos and industrial diseases, internationally renowned for her role fighting for victims of asbestos
Asbestos and mesothelioma Data protection and privacy Road traffic collisions Spinal injury
Partner Helen Ashton focuses exclusively on asbestos and mesothelioma claims. Helen has specialised in this area of law since 2003 and is an APIL accredited personal injury and asbestos disease specialist. Partner Kevin Johnson has over 20 years' experience in occupational disease claim cases, with particular experience in asbestos and mesothelioma claims in Liverpool, Merseyside and the North West. He is a band 1 lawyer in Chambers and Partners, is an APIL Fellow and holds accreditation from APIL as an asbestos disease and occupational disease specialist. He is a Law Society accredited personal injury lawyer. Kevin can meet you at our Liverpool office by appointment. Partner Steven Dickens has more than 10 years' experience in acting for vicitims of asbetsos exposure in the North West. He is an accredited APIL senior litigator, and a member of the Turner & Newall Asbestos Trust advisory committee. Louisa Saville is an accredited asbestos claims associate solicitor.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner and Head of Immigration and Asylum Law
Jill Paterson is a renowned market leader in representing people who have been harmed
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Leading Liverpool, Cheshire and North West Mesothelioma Claims Lawyer / View Profile
Partner Kevin Johnson holds multiple accreditations as a specialist in asbestos and occupational disease claims and is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. He has more than 20 years' experience of acting for victims of asbestos exposure, and has represented people who have worked in the heavy industries of the North West such as dockworkers, shipyard workers, Merchant Navy seamen, construction workers and engineers.
Kiran has acted for a range of individuals advising on all aspects of employment law.
Laura Murphy is a partner in the personal injury department.
Lauren is a partner specialising in employment and discrimination
Linda works on large multi-claimant equal pay cases as well as a range of employment and discrimination cases
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Specialist Medical Negligence Claims Lawyer With Particular Interest in Missed Cancer Claims
Job Titles:
- Head of Electrotechnical Division at Electrical Safety First
- Head of Electrotechnical, Electrical Safety First / Technical Director at Electrical Safety First
- Technical Director at Electrical Safety First
Martyn Allen is the Head of Electrotechnical Division at Electrical Safety First. He is responsible for leading the Charity's technical team as an impartial centre of excellence on all matters relating to the safety of electrical installations and electrical products, including representing consumer safety interests on British, European and international committees.
Martyn is the joint founder of the firm and is the senior partner
Matthew Renshaw is a partner in the international department.
Merry is a partner in the human rights department and head of the Leigh Day inquest group
Michael Newman is a discrimination and employment law specialist
Michelle is a leading consumer rights lawyer and head of the food safety team in London
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Solicitor
- Associate Solicitors
Mike Cain is an employment and discrimination solicitor with over a decade of experience across the entire range of employment and discrimination law including litigation of national and international significance. He has acted for senior executives in the private and public sectors for most of that period and has increasing presence in the legal and financial services sector. Recent work in the last two years alone has included:
Mike Cain is a a partner in the employment department.
Nichola is a specialist in the management of multi-claimant injury claims
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
- Expert
Nick Webster is a senior associate solicitor in the employment team.
Nick Webster is an employment and discrimination expert. He is regularly instructed by those in senior and junior regulated professional roles. The following are examples of cases he has worked on:
Nigel is a leading employment and discrimination lawyer. He is co-head of the employment department, alongside Emma Satyamurti
Olive is an experienced healthcare lawyer who has specialised in the field for more than 25 years, having previously trained as a nurse
Oliver specialises in international cases involving multinational corporations where environmental harm or human rights abuses have been alleged
Patrick has specialised in asbestos related disease claims throughout his career
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Employment Lawyer
Paula is an employment lawyer with a wealth of experience. She always puts her clients at the centre of everything she does, helping them to defend their rights fiercely
Richard is co-head of the firm's international department
Richard Meeran head of the international department, joined in 1990, and the firm became renowned for representing individuals in successful innovative group actions. These claims were on behalf of miners and other workers suffering from industrial diseases against British companies both in the UK and abroad.
Ross Whalley is a partner in the personal injury department.
Sally-Jean Nicholes is dogged in pursuit of justice for her clients.
Sally-Jean Nicholes is a 'shrewd lawyer with great judgement' and is 'committed to get the best result for her clients without losing sight of what is achievable'.
Sally-Jean is a consultant solicitor in the medical negligence department.
Sarah has been successful in obtaining damages for those who have suffered many types of injury as a result of medical negligence.
She represents clients who have suffered from a wide range of injuries, including severe neurological damage, consent cases and death as a result of negligent care. Sarah also represents families at inquests.
Sarah has a particular expertise in birth injury and maternal injury cases, including wrongful birth claims which concern failures made during antenatal screening.
Some of Sarah's cases include a claim for the failure to pick up microcephaly, and other disabilities, during antenatal screening, claims for birth injuries resulting from the mismanagement of labour, cerebral palsy cases and claims for failure to repair 3rd and 4th degree tears sustained during childbirth.
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 1999 having trained at Leigh Day with Anne Winyard, and became a partner in 2006. She has practised exclusively in clinical negligence work since qualification and is a member of AvMA and APIL.
Sarah and Michael supported our family with care and compassion throughout the lengthy legal process. We always felt that we were in the best hands, that they were doing their best for us and that we were not just another case to them.
Sarah Campbell practises exclusively in the area of claimant clinical negligence work.
Sean is an experienced human rights lawyer and privacy breach compensation claims specialist
Shazia specialises in large-scale product liability litigation on behalf of consumers
Suzanne White is head of the medical negligence team and has specialised in this area of law since qualifying in 1999
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Corporate Accountability Planning Wildlife
Tessa is an experienced litigator who specialises in international and domestic human rights law cases
Thomas Jervis is an internationally recognised leading consumer lawyer
Vijay is a partner who specialises in industrial disease and complex injury cases.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Head of Professional Ethics & Risk Management
Waleed Sheikh is a partner in the human rights department.
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