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Neil Whiteley
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 partners)Irwin Mitchell has one of the country’s leading personal injury and clinical negligence groups, and is known for its ‘in-depth knowledge, dedication to client care, and sure-footed strategic vision‘. Regional managing partner Neil Whiteley oversees the practice. Head of clinical negligence Guy Forster is ‘a force to be reckoned with‘. ‘Determined, empathetic‘ head of the catastrophic injury group Ruth Booy
, Rosemary Giles (who leads ‘one of the country’s leading industrial disease outfits‘), and ‘don of military PI claims‘ Simon Harrington are among the standout practitioners. Senior associates Samantha Pitts, the ‘kind, caring ‘ Sarah Wealleans, and the ‘tenacious’ Gurpreet Lalli, and associates Sophie Bales and Alexander Davenport exemplify the outstanding bench of up-and-coming talent.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant East Anglia > Insurance