Ms Kate Nicklin > Slater and Gordon > Newcastle, England > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
ROTTERDAM HOUSE, 116 QUAYSIDE
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 3DY
England
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Ms Kate Nicklin
Position
Kate is a Senior Associate Solicitor who specialises in representing seriously injured clients, both adults and children, who have suffered life changing injuries including brain and / or spinal cord injuries.
Kate is focused upon achieving the best possible outcome for her clients in addition to securing interim payments at an early stage to fund specialist rehabilitation, accommodation, support and care. She works alongside specialist neurorehabilitation professionals (such as case managers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, neurorehabilitation consultants and speech and language therapists). This enables Kate to ensure that her clients’ chances of recovery and future independence are maximised.
Kate strives to provide individuals with straightforward legal advice and seeks to obtain compensation to meet their significant needs and provide them with financial security for their future.
Kate has held various trustee roles including with regional Headway and Citizens Advice Bureau charities. Kate is always looking for opportunities to give back to the community.
Career
Kate has acting on behalf of clients whom have sustained life-changing serious injuries since 2008 and is highly specialised in this area of law.
Lawyer Rankings
North > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading associates)Irwin Mitchell’s personal injury and medical negligence department is led by Francesca Mayes
, Sarah Coles, Samuel Hill and Ian Toft who bring together expertise in serious injuries, medical negligence claims and workplace illness issues. Mayes, who leads the personal injury department in Newcastle, covers a broad range of personal injury work, while Coles, who divides her time between Newcastle and Leeds, specialises in medical negligence issues. Hill also covers medical negligence work and has been involved in childbirth injury matters, brain injuries and delay in diagnosis matters, and Toft is the regional head of the workplace injury teams in Newcastle and Leeds, assisting clients with mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer and other workplace illness matters. Laura Mcilduff was promoted to partner in May 2024, and Kate Nicklin rejoined the team from Slater and Gordon in the same month; Justina Molloy also moved to the firm’s Newcastle office, relocating from the firm’s base in Cambridge.