Virginia Chalmers > Irwin Mitchell > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
ONE CASTLEPARK
TOWER HILL
BRISTOL
BS2 0JA
England
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Virginia Chalmers
Work Department
Workplace Injury
Position
Partner
In September 2014 Virginia (Ginny) joined Irwin Mitchell as a partner and head of the workplace injury team in Bristol, bringing with her the asbestos team from Lyons Davidson. Ginny is a specialist solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in personal injury and is dual qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Canada. She has recovered millions of pounds of compensation for asbestos claimants and their families. She often speaks at conferences and in 2013 chaired a groundbreaking conference on inquests and post-mortems in mesothelioma deaths. Ginny is named on the Mesothelioma UK National Panel of Solicitors specialising in mesothelioma claims and often speaks at and chairs conferences.
Career
Trained Borden & Elliot, Toronto (now Borden Ladner Gervais); qualified 1986; associate solicitor Borden & Elliot 1986-1991; assistant solicitor Townsends 1991-2009; partner Thrings 2009-2011; partner and divisional manager for specialist claims Lyons Davidson 2011-2014; partner and head of workplace injury Irwin Mitchell (Bristol) 2014 to date.
Memberships
Chair of Bath Community Transport 2006 to date.
Education
University of Toronto (1984 LLB); admitted as barrister and solicitor in Ontario 1986; admitted as solicitor in England and Wales 1991.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Leading partners)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners South West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant South West > Insurance