Sharine Burgess > Shoosmiths LLP > Northampton, England > Lawyer Profile
Shoosmiths LLP Offices
THE LAKES
Bedford Road
NORTHAMPTON
NN4 7SH
England
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Sharine Burgess
Work Department
Personal Injury, Partner
Position
Sharine is an award-winning lawyer in the serious injury department, acting on behalf of claimants and their families through a wide range of cases including stress at work, workplace accidents, illness and disease claims, asbestos related claims, psychiatric illness/PTSD, military claims and clinical negligence.
Undertaking pro bono work through good working relationships with many organisations and charities, Sharine co-ordinated the award winning Northampton and District Citizens Advice Bureau Pro Bono Clinic from its inception in 2011. This achievement was recognised when Shoosmiths won the category for Best Contribution by a Regional Firm at the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards in 2012. Sharine continues to support the clinic as a supervisor.
Sharine won Solicitor of the Year at the Northamptonshire Law Society Awards in 2017 and is ranked by both Chambers and Legal 500.
Sharine was promoted to Partner in 2020 and was appointed joint Head of Office in 2021.
Memberships
Sharine is an accredited member of both the Law Society Personal Injury Panel and Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, as well as serving Council member of the Northamptonshire Law Society. She was appointed President of the Society in July 2019.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Next Generation Partners)Shoosmiths LLP has been praised as ‘very professional with lots of empathy’. On the personal injury side of the practice, the team handles serious life-changing and catastrophic injuries, including spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, amputations, complex pain, severe burns, serious psychological trauma, industrial disease and care home neglect. For clinical negligence, the team routinely acts in cases involving birth injury, cauda equina, stillbirths and delayed diagnosis of cancer, among many others. Andrea Rusbridge heads up clinical negligence, whilst Sharine Burgess leads the personal injury team. Rusbridge is highly experienced in the space and is a go-to name for birth injury, spinal injury, and cauda equina as well as both misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis of cancer cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners East Midlands > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant East Midlands > Insurance
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