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Sally Moore
Work Department
Personal injury
Position
Described in legal directories as an outstanding and impeccable lawyer, Sally is head of the personal injury department comprising five partners, 13 solicitors and 19 paralegals/support staff. She qualified in 1989, joined Leigh Day in 1991 and was made partner in 1992. She specialises in high value personal injury and fatal accident claims. She has specialism in head/brain and severe injury cases including spinal injury and amputation. Examples of the types of case settled by Sally are: £5.4m part lump sum and part annual payments for a brain injured cyclist. In this case interim payments were secured for intensive rehabilitation to purchase equipment, therapies and to buy and adapt a home for the claimant. She secured a multi-million pound settlement for the widow and children of a cyclist killed on a charity bike ride. She has successfully obtained million pound plus settlements for clients who have suffered amputation, severe orthopaedic trauma and spinal cord injuries. She obtains interim payments to prevent her clients suffering financial hardship, also to fund rehabilitation, cover the cost of care and has secured funds to enable her clients to buy and adapt homes suited to their needs. She is hugely committed to her clients and their families and passionate about the work she does.
Career
Qualified 1989; trained in the City, then left to work in Seifert Sedley Williams; Leigh Day 1991 to date; partner 1992. She has taught advanced litigation on the Master’s degree course at Nottingham.
Memberships
Sally is currently chair of Headway West London, an organisation set up to support brain injury survivors in West London. She is a fellow of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), member of the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA), Headway – the Brain Injury Association and Child Brain Injury Legal Group. She has taught on the masters degree course at Nottingham University on advanced litigation.
Education
Whitgift Comprehensive School, Grimsby; University College, London (law degree); Law Society finals (special commendation).
Leisure
Family, cycling and the great outdoors.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Hall of Fame)Sally Moore
and Daniel Easton co-head the personal injury practice at Leigh Day, fielding a ‘thorough understanding of the law’ in some of the sector’s most complex claims. A broadly specialised team, Moore’s focus on claims stemming from brain and spinal injuries, amputations and traffic collisions complements Easton’s industrial disease, mesothelioma and asbestos claims expertise. A frequent adviser in multijurisdictional cases, Martyn Day regularly covers group claims and workplace liability cases. Sapna Malik is a key figure for personal injury litigation pertaining to human rights law and public liability. Environmental, human rights and international personal injury law are also areas of expertise for Richard Meeran, the current head of the international department. Laura Murphy is a port of call for brain injury litigation, along with fatal and traffic collision claims. Noted for her ‘energy and determination’ Harminder Bains is the head of the team’s industrial disease and asbestos department, and oversees some of the most consequential asbestos litigation in the sector, including in the Supreme Court.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Insurance > Product liability: claimant