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Irwin Mitchell LLP’s team regularly represents claimants in the most difficult cases, and recently handled a wrongful birth case. Sara Burns ‘does fantastic work’, ‘attracts a lot of loyalty’, and is ‘really on top of things’. The team won new clients such as Sears and University of Birmingham.

Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP’ has ‘excellent fee-earners’ in Tony Hall and Rankeshwar Batta, who is ‘extremely knowledgeable, uncompromisingly straight, kind and sympathetic’. The firm is one of the few to have been awarded a legal aid contract, and recently secured a £1.2m-plus costs award following the misdiagnosis of an eye tumour.

Challinors Solicitors settled several multimillion-pound brain injury claims. It handles legal aid work, and sits on the Action Against Medical Accidents, Specialist Solicitor’s Referral and The Law Society’s Specialist Clinical Negligence panels. Richard Bannister is ‘very pragmatic, direct and sensible’.

Alsters Kelley LLP recruited associate and practice head Ally Taft from Irwin Mitchell LLP. Highlights included settling a nephrology claim, and securing £2m in a cerebral palsy case.

Brindley Twist Tafft & James’ track record includes obtaining a £2.4m settlement for a child with late-onset strep B infection, and securing a £650,000 settlement for a disabled child after a hospital failed to carry out a 20-week anomaly scan.

Liz Hickman’s team at Higgs & Sons specialises in pursing brain and orthopaedic injury claims, as well as claims arising out of the delayed diagnosis of cancer and spinal injuries. The group handles publicly funded work.

Lanyon Bowdler is on the approved list for Headway and the Child Brain Injury Trust, and has over 200 active claims ranging in value from £30,000 to £7m. Paula Nash heads the team.

Shoosmiths secured a £1.25m settlement for a retirement-aged man who suffered from MRSA abscesses that led to spinal cord compression. The team, led by Richard Follis, handles publicly funded work.

Kashmir Uppal’s team at Thompsons Solicitors LLP covers a broad spectrum of work, from brain injury claims arising out of negligent management of delivery to late diagnosis of cancer.

Wright Hassall LLP’s Jeanette Whyman covers all manner of clinical negligence work, but is noted in particular for neurological and obstetric cases.

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