Caroline Klage > Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP Offices
26 Newbury Street
LONDON
EC1A 7HU
England
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Caroline Klage
Work Department
Child brain injury
Position
Caroline is a specialist in cases involving child brain injury and heads up the firm’s child brain injury department. She has been instrumental in successfully concluding a number of high value complex cases. Caroline relishes a challenge and has won a number of cases rejected by other firms on the grounds that they had poor prospects of success.
Caroline champions a pro-active and practical approach. This ensures that cases are progressed swiftly and without delay with clients receiving the maximum amount of compensation possible and where appropriate, interim payments of compensation to help to fund their complex care, treatment, therapy and equipment needs as well as to alleviate financial hardship. Caroline is an IPSEA qualified SEN (Special Educational Needs) advisor.
Caroline frequently comments in the national press and in social media on healthcare issues. She is also a contributor to the Journal of Personal Injury Law.
Career
Trained Prettys Solicitors, Ipswich; qualified 2001; solicitor Bolt Burdon Kemp 2002; partner 2006.
Memberships
APIL; Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel
Education
Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School, Barnet; Lancaster University (1997 LLB European Legal Studies with German 2:1); winner of the FH Lawson Prize for the best graduating student on her course and the Cavendish Prize for the best final year dissertation in law; Nottingham University (1998 LLM European Law, distinction); College of Law, London (1999 Legal Practice Course, commendation).
Leisure
Caroline is married with three children and enjoys family life, cooking, camping, socialising and choral music.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading partners)‘Very knowledgeable in their field’, the clinical negligence department at Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP boasts a dedicated Women’s Health team, which regularly handles disputes pertaining to maternal and birth injuries resulting in catastrophic cognitive injuries, such as cerebral palsy and hypoxia. The wider department is chaired by brain injury specialist Caroline Klage, while Claudia Hillemand serves as head of the dedicated child brain injury team. Tamsin Day‘s experience covers a number of cases pertaining to cognitive injuries suffered by children. The team is additionally capable in spinal injury and complex ailment litigation brought on through misdiagonsis or surgical errors. Ipek Tugcu has previously represented clients who suffered serious brain injuries following insufficient care, while Alex Dabek is recommended for her ‘very broad knowledge and excellent analytical skills’ concerning spinal injury claims, including spinal infections and cauda equina syndrome-related cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Clinical negligence: claimant London > Insurance