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Irwin Mitchell
20 Station Road
Cambridge
CB1 2JD
England

Work Department

Personal legal services.

Position

Regional managing partner and serious injury solicitor covering the Cambridge and East Anglia region. His areas of expertise include serious acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury and poly-trauma cases. He also has experience of working with military clients. He lectures to other professionals on a range of technical issues, including mental capacity after brain injury and rehabilitation in the litigation process. He has a business development brief on behalf of the serious injury team at Irwin Mitchell LLP and is currently national co-ordinator of the serious injury team at Irwin Mitchell. Neil leads in the regional promotion of Irwin Mitchells services at our Cambridge office which opened in 2014.

Career

Trained Irwin Mitchell LLP; qualified 1996; associate 2001-08; partner 2008-13, member 2013 to date. Current trusteeships: Headway North Derbyshire. Publications of note: contributing author ‘Good Practice in Brain Injury Case Management’ (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006); co-author ‘Headway, Guide to Claiming Compensation’.

Memberships

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Education

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (LLB Hons); Nottingham Trent University (Legal Practice Diploma).

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant

(Leading individuals)

Neil WhiteleyIrwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell has ‘one of the leading teams in the clinical negligence world‘ and is equally adept in personal injury claims. Its Cambridge office is a key hub in its wider network and clients remark that ‘the expertise, knowledge, resources, back-up and standing are unrivalled‘. Head of serious injury Ruth Booy, head of clinical negligence Guy Forster, armed forces claims specialist Simon Harrington, director of PI legal services Neil Whiteley and asbestos-related disease expert Rosemary Giles are all acknowledged as standout practitioners. Senior associates Samantha Shaw, Sarah WealleansJustina Molloy and ‘A1 performer‘ Gurpreet Lalli, and associates Sophie Bales and Alexander Davenport constitute a formidable team of up-and-coming talent.