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Blake Lapthorn’s ‘very knowledgeable and well-respected’ team advises on a range of complex and high-value cases, including road traffic accident and industrial disease claims. Practice head Claire Howard and Alison McClure are both ‘excellent’, and recently secured a £7.2m settlement in a severe head injury case.

The ‘truly outstanding’ industrial disease unit at Boyes Turner is ‘genuinely specialist’. ‘Highly skilled’ practice head Linda Fletcher leads a team which has acted in numerous precedent-setting cases, and is experienced in catastrophic injury matters. Highlights included a £300,000 settlement for a former Rolls-Royce engineer.

Gareth Wheeler’s team at Lamport Bassitt advises on employers’ liability, road traffic accidents and occupiers’ liability claims. The team recently acted on behalf of a man crushed against a barrier by a large roll of cable, and a chicken catcher who developed tenosynovitis.

Moore Blatch Resolve LLP’s team is skilled in handling complex spinal and brain injury cases, and recently acted for a former prison officer who developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a consequence of working with sex offenders. Damian Horan leads the team, and the ‘tenacious, resilient and determined’ Ciaran McCabe is also recommended.

Rose Donoghue is an ‘extremely experienced litigator’ who leads an ‘excellent’ team at Shoosmiths that advises on catastrophic injuries and fatal accidents. Recent work highlights include acting for a man who had a motorbike accident resulting in a lower limb amputation.

Patricia Fearnley and Fiona Mills’ team at Thomson Snell & Passmore has an ‘excellent knowledge’ of road traffic accident and employers’ liability matters. It acted for a child claimant who lost her family in a road traffic accident. Alan Care’s experience in occupational disease is ‘second to none’.

asb law LLP focuses on high-value and complex catastrophic injury cases. Practice head Francis Lacy Scott is a ‘clear leader in the brain injury field’. The team recently welcomed the ‘immensely experienced’ Alison Parker from Hodge Jones & Allen LLP.

Lorna Fairbairn leads a team at DMH Stallard LLP that has ‘strength and depth’. In 2010 it brought a claim on behalf of a deceased man involved in a road traffic accident. Lucienne Westbrook is ‘professional and very competent’.

Henmans LLP’s ‘professional and dedicated’ team advises clients on road traffic accidents, employers’ liability and complex brain injury claims. Mary Duncan has ‘first-rate experience’.

Malcolm Underhill’s team at IBB (Iliffes Booth Bennett) has a ‘wealth of knowledge and experience’ in complex and serious head and spinal injury cases.

In 2010 Penningtons Solicitors LLP advised in a number of high-value and complex road traffic accident cases. Practice head Philippa Luscombe and Tim Palmer are ‘impressive’.

Stephen Richards’ team at Thomas Eggar LLP increasingly deals with high-value catastrophic claims. Steven Eldred is ‘expert’ in occupational noise-induced hearing-loss claims, with an ‘unusual and impressive grasp of technical issues’.

Led by Karen Mitchell, the team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP acts for unions including Unite and in 2010 advised on a £250,000 claim of failure to diagnose a sarcoma.

Trethowans LLP’s cross-office team advises on multiple-injury cases, as well as spinal and head injury claims.

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