James Davies > Irwin Mitchell > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Irwin Mitchell
ONE CASTLEPARK
TOWER HILL
BRISTOL
BS2 0JA
England
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Work Department

Serious Injury

Position

I specialise in representing children and adults who have suffered brain and/or spinal cord injuries, amputations or multiple trauma.

I have extensive experience in obtaining substantial interim payments to fund treatment, rehabilitation and other professional support for my clients, as well as securing adapted accommodation and specialist equipment where this is needed.

I lead a team of specialist serious injury lawyers at the Bristol office.

Career

Trained Douglas-Jones Mercer, Swansea 1996-2001; qualified 1998; solicitor Veale Wasbrough, Bristol 2001-04; solicitor Bond Pearce, Bristol 2004-05; partner Thompsons Solicitors 2005-13; partner Irwin Mitchell, Bristol 2013 to date.

Memberships

Law Society Personal Injury Panel; APIL senior litigator; solicitors lists for Headway, Spinal Injuries Association, Child Brain Injury Trust.

Education

Tonbridge School; Cardiff University (1994 LLB Hons; 1995 Diploma in Legal Practice).

Leisure

Squash, running, cricket, rugby.

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant

(Leading partners)

James DaviesIrwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell’s Bristol office ‘attracts the biggest and most serious cases’, and is valued by clients for having the ‘specialism and efficiency that comes with a large practice’. James Davies leads the serious injury team, which focuses on maximum severity brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations, and fatal accidents, and also includes the ‘fantastic’ Georgina Moorhead. Virginia Chalmers oversees the workplace illness group, which handles asbestos-related disease cases, as well as occupational lung cancer and silicosis claims, and is capably supported by Isabelle Selley, Rebecca Buxton, Alexandra Lausen.