Jill Greenfield > Fieldfisher > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Fieldfisher Offices
RIVERBANK HOUSE
2 SWAN LANE
LONDON
EC4R 3TT
England
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Jill Greenfield
Work Department
Brain injury, spinal injury and catastrophic injury
Position
Partner, Head of Serious Injury Sector
Career
I am a leading serious injury lawyer and head of the catastrophic injury team, representing clients in the UK and internationally.
I won the Disputes Lawyer of the Year at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2023.
I am one of a handful of UK lawyers recognised by Chambers as a ‘Star Individual’ and in 2021 I was honoured with the title of Lifetime Achievement in Law UK’s Women, Influence & Power Awards. In 2020, I was named Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards, and I was included in in The Lawyer Hot 100 in 2019. In 2018, I was shortlisted as Woman Lawyer of the Year at the Law Society Excellence Awards. My team won the Solicitors Journal Personal Injury team of the Year in 2017.
My clients’ injuries are life changing, and I fight hard, quickly and effectively for them. I launch proceedings early and place insurers under pressure in order to achieve the best results for my clients.
My experience covers brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, serious orthopaedic injury and fatal injury following accidents on the roads and work accidents. I also represent victims of sexual assault, terrorist attack & Ecoli 0157 outbreaks.
I work quickly to put in place rehabilitation at an early stage of a case, unlocking funds from insurers to get the best medical care and therapy for my clients.
I am passionate in my support of victims and their families and seek to use the law to campaign for the most vulnerable. I have for many years represented victims of terrorist attacks and successfully campaigned to introduce new legislation that now provides financial support for UK victims of terrorism, wherever in the world that attack occurs. I currently represent victims of the Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and the Finsbury Park Mosque terrorist atrocities.
I am passionate about women’s rights and I campaign to improve women’s access to justice. I am currently running the UK cases against Harvey Weinstein for alleged historic sexual assaults. I have taken a civil rape case to trial and won – one of only a handful of cases that have ever reached trial without a criminal conviction.
I regularly act for children and seek to improve safety standards. This includes the introduction of new regulation following the death of Grace Roseman in a bed side sleeper cot and better protection of children visiting Open Farms following serious outbreaks of E Coli 0157 in the UK over the past 20 years. E Coli 0157 is now recognised as a notifiable disease and more stringent safety measures apply.
My focus is always to intervene on behalf of clients quickly and effectively to get them the specialist medical care and support to help them recover and rebuild their lives as far as possible. This often marks the difference between achieving quality of life and not.
I am known for my dogged determination in pursuing insurers and other professional bodies to achieve the absolute best for my clients, and my team do the same. We are proud of what we achieve for our clients.
In January 2018, I was elected Treasurer for APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) the not for profit campaign organisation dedicated to protecting people who have sustained serious and life-changing injuries through no fault of their own.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Hall of Fame)Paul McNeil, Jill Greenfield and Peter Williams jointly head up the claimant personal injury offering at Fieldfisher. Williams oversees the industrial disease department, alongside Andrew Morgan, with particular expertise in asbestos claims, including cases of low exposure and adults who were exposed as children; in 2022, the team achieved the first decision against an insurer in a living mesothelioma claim. Jill Greenfield leads the serious injury team, which has extensive expertise regarding international matters, and redress following serious sexual assaults; the firm is experienced in the setting up of funds for victims of sexual assaults in the US. Jennifer Buchanan is described by one client as being ‘at the top of her game’; Keith Barrett has specialist knowledge regarding maritime and aviation claims; and the ‘tenacious, smart and hardworking’ Dushal Mehta is particularly experienced in cases before the Court of Appeal. Director Harvinder Kaur is also recommended for her skill in high-value serious injury cases.
Paul McNeil, Jill Greenfield and Peter Williams jointly head up the claimant personal injury offering at Fieldfisher. Williams oversees the industrial disease department, alongside Andrew Morgan, with particular expertise in asbestos claims, including cases of low exposure and adults who were exposed as children; in 2022, the team achieved the first decision against an insurer in a living mesothelioma claim. Jill Greenfield leads the serious injury team, which has extensive expertise regarding international matters, and redress following serious sexual assaults; the firm is experienced in the setting up of funds for victims of sexual assaults in the US. Jennifer Buchanan is described by one client as being ‘at the top of her game’; Keith Barrett has specialist knowledge regarding maritime and aviation claims; and the ‘tenacious, smart and hardworking’ Dushal Mehta is particularly experienced in cases before the Court of Appeal. Director Harvinder Kaur is also recommended for her skill in high-value serious injury cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
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- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
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- Finance > Trade finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
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- Private client > Court of protection
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
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- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
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- Finance > Securitisation
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- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
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- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
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- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
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- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital