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Simon Allen
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Work Department
Personal injury.
Position
Simon is national joint head of the personal injury department at Russell Jones & Walker; this is the largest department in the firm, with over 200 staff; Simon has continued to perform the role of regional equity partner for the North East of England and is a member of the firm’s management board; additionally, he runs the occupational disease group and is the personal injury department’s leading employers’ liability lawyer; externally, Simon has lectured regularly on the CPIL course – maximising damages – and on asbestos issues, as well as to local universities and trade unions; Simon provided the substantial employers’ liability and disease chapter for the APIL ‘Practice and Procedure Manual’, published in November 2005 and subsequent annual updates; he is also a contributing editor to Kemp & Kemp’s ‘Practice and Procedure’, launched in October 2005, providing four chapters and annual updates; he maintains his position as a PI panel assessor. Recently he has recommended providing the PI update for the ‘Law Society Gazette’.
Career
Articled Favell & Smith Sheffield; qualified 1985; Brian Thompson & Partners, Sheffield 1985-89 (partner from 1987); Russell Jones & Walker 1989; partner 1990; publications: regular contributor to legal press inter alia; PMILL 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, APIL 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, New Law Journal 1997, 2008; Solicitors Journal 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000; Personal Injury Law Journal 2002; author, The Personal Injury update for Law Society Gazette 1996 to 2008 and 2010 to date; Journal of Personal Injury Law 2009-10; Sweet & Maxwell Guide to PTSD Claims 2000; frequent lecturer on aspects of PI litigation; appointed as Personal Injury Panel Assessor 2000; co-author of APIL’s book on Damages in PI claims, published 2004 and updated 2008. Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Sheffield Law Society, ATLA.
Member
PI Panel assessor; APIL; Sheffield Law Society.
Education
De la Salle College, Sheffield; Leicester Polytechnic.
Leisure
Family, photography, Manchester United supporter, studying Italian.
Practice Areas
Health and safety; Personal injury - claimant
