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Adam Lidster
Adam Lidster
Adam is head of the costs unit and has a particular expertise in costs issues arising in respect of disease cases. He regularly provides lectures, papers and articles on the subject, as well as appearing as an advocate in the senior court costs office (SCCO). Before specialising in legal costs, he spent seven years as a personal injury lawyer dealing with a wide variety of claims, including catastrophic injury and product liability matters. Notable work includes acting for the successful defendants in Barham v Dr Athreya; Woolley v Haden Building Services Ltd (No2); Herbert v Dencover; and Mortiboy v Team Spatz & anor.
Adam Weston
Adam Weston
As a partner at BLM since May 2018, Adam acts for healthcare professionals and businesses in regulatory, disciplinary, inquest and criminal matters.His regulatory cases brings him before the GMC, GDC, NMC, GOC, GPhC and HCPC as well as NHS England and NHS Hospital Trusts. He is routinely instructed in lengthy and complex investigations into serious allegations of misconduct, dishonesty and clinical incompetence and is frequently involved in CQC investigations on behalf of registered managers and organisations. Adam heads up the London medical crime team for BLM and defends healthcare professionals in cases involving gross negligence manslaughter, neglect, medicines act offences, sexual assault, common assault, fraud against the NHS, racially motivated public order offences, perverting the course of justice and indecent images of children.He also routinely advises clients in relation to DBS matters following the closure of criminal and regulatory investigations.
Adrian Marston
Adrian Marston
Adrian is a partner in the Large Loss and Technical Business Stream at BLM where he specialises in high value and complex PI litigation with a special interest in cases involving chronic pain and mental health conditions.He has extensive experience in managing complex, sensitive and novel cases and those where there are commercial or reputational issues at stake for the client
Agustín Ortega Téllez
He specializes in international commercial and investment dispute resolution and has acted as counsel in arbitrations under the rules of the LCIA, ICC, ICSID, IACAC, CANACO and CAM, as well as in ad-hoc procedures. He is listed as an arbitrator and mediator in CANACO and CAM.
Alan Kells
Senior Associate
Alejandro Garcia
Alejandro Garcia
Public International Law
Alexander Traill
Alexander Traill
Alex is a partner in the professional indemnity department. He acts for London market and composite insurers who underwrite D&O and professional indemnity products for financial institutions, companies, surveyors, insurance/other intermediaries and other professionals operating both in the UK and overseas. He advises on coverage both in the respect of direct insurance and reinsurance policies and their substantive matters, and operates as monitoring counsel in respect of overseas claims. Alex has specific expertise in dealing with highly sensitive D&O matters for insurers and corporate organisations. Many of the cases Alex advises on involve‎ multi-jurisdictional elements, including advising reinsurers on claims for indemnity by directors under investigation by the Scandinavian FSA. Alex has advised insurers of companies/financial institutions based in Saudi Arabia, Macau, Cayman Islands and Guernsey over alleged negligence and corporate malfeasance. His team also deliver a range of support services including risk management and training. For example, he has previously delivered a series of joint presentations to non- executive directors in Guernsey and Jersey on the underlying risks to non-executive directors as well as an overview on cyber as an emerging liability to directors.Alex's team also have a well-developed niche for a wide variety of Broker’s E&O matters (both Lloyds and non-Lloyds). As a result, many of the cases Alex and his team advise on involve the potential issues surrounding placement of insurance policies. Work has ranged from dealing with a variety of domestic retail broker disputes (including those involving binders) to a Lloyds broker’s placement of a multi-million Euro Fund Policy for a European bank and the London market placement of a US$ billion property damage policy and the determination of losses arising from Hurricane Sandy.
Alexandra Payne
Alexandra Payne
Partner; specialises in claims involving injuries of the utmost severity including serious orthopaedic injuries, brain injury and spinal cord injury, arising out of road traffic accidents.  She is a nominated individual for one of the firm's top 10 clients.
Aliko  Simon
Aliko Simon
Partner
Alison Noonan
Alison Noonan
Partner in Catastrophic Injury Team dealing predominantly with cases involving head and spinal injuries, multiple orthopaedic injuries, chronic pain and amputations.  I am experienced in dealing with complex liability and causation issues in a wide range of claims including road traffic accidents, employers liability and public liability claims.  I also have extensive experience of road traffic claims brought under the Uninsured Drivers' Agreement.
Alison Siniver
Alison Siniver
Alison is a partner in the professional indemnity team. She specialises in claims against accountants relating to corporate finance and tax issues but deals with a mixed bag of claims which also include claims against surveyors, loss of chance claims against solicitors and various miscellaneous professionals.
Amalia  Lui
Amalia Lui
Partner
Amreen  Ayub
Amreen Ayub
Senior Associate
Andrew Millen
Andrew Millen
Partner and Head of the Volume Recovery Practice Group. Andrew heads up the Volume Motor and Property Recovery departments, acting for a wide range of insurers and corporate fleets in relation to the recovery of insured and uninsured losses arising out of motor, household and commercial property disputes.  Andrew also leads the claimant personal injury team and has extensive experience in handling large loss and catastrophic injury claims arising from motor, employers’ and public liability accidents received on both a first and third party capture basis. Volume Recovery is based in Manchester and has over 45 lawyers.
Andrew Hibbert
Andrew Hibbert
Andy is a partner and Head of BLM's UK and Ireland Catastrophic Injury Practice Group which comprises  over 100 specialist lawyers.He advises on cases of the highest value in all major insurance classes and specialises in defending personal injury claims of the utmost severity, with experience of all the major injury types including brain and spinal injury, amputations and fatal accidents.Andy has also been at the forefront of identifying and agreeing best practice with some of the leading claimant firms to support swifter resolution of catastrophic injury claims to the benefit of our clients and claimant.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson specialises in defending catastrophic injuries arising from road traffic accidents and accidents at work. His work encompasses spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury and traumatic amputations to both upper and lower limbs . His practice also covers agricultural claims and the defence of regulatory investigations and prosecutions following work-related incidents. He acts on behalf of local authorities in relation to a variety of public sector risks.
Andrew Kerr
Andrew Kerr
Andrew is a partner in the catastrophic injury team specialising in catastrophic and large loss claims. Within BLM he leads the Brain Injury Subject Matter Group together with a number of our specialists which focuses on trends, developments and best practice in handling these claims He is a named individual for a number of insurers on their select panels to handle their highest value cases and currently manages a portfolio of claims with a combined value in excess of £150million. Andrew has many years experience acting exclusively for insurers, corporate policy holders and local authorities handling claims of the utmost severity and complexity. His caseload comprises public liability, employers’ liability and motor claims, especially brain injuries, severe spinal injuries and amputations with expertise in handling infant brain injury claims. He also has experience with insolvency (corporate and recovery) and professional negligence as well as disease claims.   Andrew has written a number of articles commenting on legal issues and developments and regularly provides seminars and training for insurers, policyholders and clients. Aside from supervising and mentoring team members he manages a team of junior lawyers who assist on cases.
Andrew Gilmour
Andrew Gilmour
Andrew is an insurance Partner based in BLM’s Glasgow office.He is instructed by insurers, legacy insurers, self-insured businesses and loss adjusters directly and is experienced in dealing with employers’ liability, public liability and motor claims for the firm’s clients and in commercial disputes.His experience of casualty and motor claims spans more than 24 years.Andrew has experience of a wide range of cases in the Court of Session and Sheriff Court, with a particular focus on high value disease and environmental claims. These include: all asbestos-related conditions; HAVS; carpal tunnel syndrome; noise-induced deafness and tinnitus; occupational asthma; occupational skin conditions; allergic conditions and repetitive strain injuries. He also regularly speaks at conferences and delivers training to a variety of clients in different industry sectors in all aspects of Scottish claims and litigation.
Andrew West
Andrew West
Partner specialising in handling and defence of occupational disease and public authority claims. Handles variety of disease, workplace stress and employers’ and public liability claims for insurers, public authorities and self insureds.
Andrew Blair
Andrew Blair
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Andrew Constable
Andrew Constable
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Andrew Grant
Andrew Grant
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Angela Crisall
Angela Crisall
Angela is a partner in the volume motor team. She oversees the management of a dedicated dual site team based in Glasgow and Manchester representing Aviva Insurance and GCSR clients aligned with other areas of practice including property and casualty. She has experience of representing large insurer clients, self-insured companies and individuals. Her team deals with all aspects of litigation in motor claims up to £125,000.Aside from management of a large team, she also has conduct of multi-track claims involving complex injuries, indemnity and liability. With a keen eye for detail, she undertakes thorough investigations on behalf of her clients and carries out her team’s advocacy for interim applications.Angela provides strategy advice to clients to mitigate avoidable litigation and minimise indemnity spend. She identifies and advises on market trends and know your opponent strategy and works collaboratively with various clients to implement processes and tactics.She assists in developing proactive strategies across the legal supply chain to accommodate change in light of evolving opponent strategies.
Angela Flaherty
Angela Flaherty
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Ann Bonomy
Ann Bonomy
SHE & Regulatory
Anna Myrvang
Anna Myrvang
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Anthony Brown
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Anthony Albertini
Anthony Albertini
Projects & Construction
Arion Jones
Arion Jones
Arion specialises in employers' liability, public liability and travel industry claims, and represents corporate clients in relation to regulatory matters. He is known for his proactive approach and clear advice in otherwise complicated cases.
Arturo Arista
Arturo Arista
Arturo Arista specializes in all areas of insurance, reinsurance and transportation law by providing legal advice to both domestic and foreign insurers, reinsurers, mutual associations and P&I Clubs. He is also experienced in dealing with all aspects of transportation, charterparties, bills of lading and cargo claims. Arturo is the head of the Insurance/Reinsurance team in Mexico and he has provided legal advice and been involved in multiple litigation cases representing the leading Mexican and foreign insurance and reinsurance carriers in most areas of insurance including property, catastrophic risks, public liability, products liability, D&O, E&O, PI, Aviation, EAR, CAR, Marine and subrogation recoveries.
Barry Jones
Barry Jones
Barry has had extensive experience in defending all aspects of motor and employers’ liability claims and is the fraud co-ordinator for the firm’s Liverpool office.  Barry specialises in defending catastrophic injury and large loss claims for insurers, transport operators and retailers.
Ben Jones
Ben Jones
Ben is a partner whose work involves acting for corporate and commercial clients in defending both public and employers’ liability claims.  He has extensive experience of working for transport and infrastructure operators in defending catastrophic and fatal injury claims, including liaising with internal and external teams dealing with concurrent inquests and regulatory prosecutions.  Through his detailed approach and expertise in understanding what the key issues and evidence will be, he has successfully defended a number of high profile and high value claims.  Ben is a member of a specialist matter group that focuses on emerging trends and technologies in claims involving amputation and the use of prosthetics. He also has a developing practice dealing with the injury side of claims involving breach of data rights.  Ben offers a full and high quality service that is focused on achieving the best result for the client. When dealing with cases or supervising colleagues, he always emphasises the need to have a clear end goal set and focus the work on any case towards that end goal.
Ben Parks
Ben Parks
Professional indemnity.
Benjamin Knowles
Benjamin Knowles
International Arbitration
Bethan Parry
Bethan Parry
Bob Davies
Bob Davies
Partner
Brian Mambosho
Brian Mambosho
Senior Associate
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood
Real Estate
Bryn Hodges
Bryn Hodges
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Carole Eaton
Carole Eaton
Carole is a partner and supervises and manages teams who primarily act for leading insurers on a wide range of litigated matters. She is experienced in motor fraud (first and third party) on behalf of defendant insurers, comprising: bogus passenger claims, staged and contrived accidents, fraudulent exaggeration, low velocity impact collisions, falsified documentation and claims farming.Clients often instruct Carole to advise on bringing actions in the tort of deceit against fraudsters. She was involved in the first private criminal prosecution of a fraudulent claimant in a travel sickness case and now advises clients on contempt and private prosecutions following civil insurance claims.Carole is experienced in dealing with multi-party cases and advising upon complex indemnity issues.
Caroline Craigie
I joined BLM as a partner in September 2015. My specialism is defending large loss and complex EL, PL and motor claims for insurers, corporate clients and local authorities. I also hanlde catastrophic injury claims involving fatalities, brain injury, spinal injuries and amputation cases. My experience also includes handling HSE/local authority prosecutions on behalf of insureds. I have a particular interest in defending exaggeration claims with reference to the claimant's medical and occupational records and social media activity. I have experience of participating in remote hearings including a 5 day remote qunatum only trial at which the claimant failed to beat a historic Part 36 offer. I also advise on international claims, including product liability and personal injury, arising out of accidents abroad. 
Caroline Gillespie
Caroline Gillespie
Caroline is head of the family law team and partner in Glasgow.Having practiced for over 30 years, Caroline is an experienced litigator especially in both Court of Session and Sheriff CourtHer caseload comprises a broad range of family, child and matrimonial cases with renowned expertise in international child relocation and cohabitation claims and also complex financial provision cases.She is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in family law and child law.She is trained in Collaborative Law.Caroline was the instructing solicitor in the reported case of Price v Baxter which made a determination regarding the interaction between spousal separation agreements and testamentary provision.She was also the instructing solicitor in a successful opposition to an action seeking to deprive a natural father of parental rights and responsibilities. It is understood to be unique in that it proceeded to Proof on the issue and received judicial determination.Caroline regularly speaks at high profile external conferences on family law and recently spoke on Brexit and family law and cross-border jurisdiction issues.
Caroline Kane
Caroline Kane
Caroline is a partner in BLM’s commercial litigation team, and heads up the Birmingham property damage recovery and liability team, pursuing and defending claims for corporates and insurers, as well as advising on policy coverage. She is known for a good understanding of the technical aspects of these claims, and a strong commercial common sense approach to dispute resolution. As a recoveries specialist she is also instructed by individuals and corporates to pursue claims of deceit, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty and associated claims against the perpetrators of fraud. She is well practised at obtaining fast injunctive relief, and has a particular skill in asset tracing, including cross-border tracing where necessary. Caroline is a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network, with a particular focus on Gender Inclusion issues such as the support of working parents.
Catherine West
Catherine West
Aviation Liability
Catherine Mangham
Catherine Mangham
Catherine leads the Property Damage Team in Manchester as technical manager. She specialises in property damage recovery and liability claims and insurance litigation. She is the go to contact for subsidence damage claims having developed a niche practice in particular handling subsidence damage claims for major Local Authority clients, contractor’s liability and construction and engineering matters. She handles major loss property damage work involving fire and flood and policy coverage and manages property damage recovery schemes for major insurers, leading a team to achieve cost-effective recoveries relating to both injury and property damage settlement. Her successes include at the Technology and Construction Court and Court of Appeal in the case of Epsom College Ltd v Pierse Contracting Southern Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1449 when she acted for a major insurer, recovering rectification costs from a defendant construction company for causing a nail to penetrate a pipe during the course of building works undertaken 3 years prior to the damage occurring. She also handled the high profile TPO case securing felling of the 100 year beech tree in Irton. Catherine has presented at the Post Magazine Annual Property Conference on Subsidence Strategy and provides conducts regular claims clinics to insurers providing expertise and training on property damage claims. She has been praised by insurers who ‘admire her work’ and for her ‘hard work’ ‘excellent and very useful training pitched at just the right level’. Clients include: Allianz Insurance, Crawley Borough Council, Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, Sainsbury’s, Travelers Insurance, Zurich Insurance.
Cathie Mortimer
Cathie Mortimer
Cathie is a partner and has experience of all forms of personal injury RTA, EL and PL claims up to multi-track level as a handler.  She manages the motor volume litigation team in Manchester which handles defendant litigated matters on behalf of more than 15 insurers and major insureds. The team has extensive experience of dealing with all elements of motor claims from the Ministry of Justice through to multi-track and including complex indemnity issues and credit hire claims up to the value of £100,000.
Cenydd Edwards
Cenydd Edwards
Industrial disease and high-value EL/PL claims, including asbestos-related claims, stress, asthma, HAVS, WRULD, cumulative lifting and other work-related cancers; work-related RTA claims; general EL/PL accident claims; psychiatric claims following trauma; public sector claims for local authorities; had conduct of leading CPR part 24 Court of Appeal case of Swain v Hillman.
Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison
SHE & Regulatory
Chris Fletcher
Chris Fletcher
Chris is a partner and head of the Occupational Disease group.  He advises in relation to the full range of disease litigation, both long and short tail, with emphasis on asbestos-related disease, occupational cancers and work-related stress and related policy wording issues. He advises insurers in relation to strategic disease litigation issues, emerging risk issues and response to government consultations on changes in the law. He also advises corporate clients in relation to corporate structure implications relating to acquired legacy disease liability difficulties and has advised corporate clients with respect to pan-jurisdiction implications of group cancer litigation strategy in other European jurisdictions.  He is also a Director of Global Insurance Law Connect, the international insurance law firm network co-founded by BLM.
Chris Eccles
Chris Eccles
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Chris Dexter
Chris Dexter
Partner - Defendant Healthcare - specialising in the defence of medical and dental claims, clinical claims in the care setting and prison healthcare. Also instructed in respect of alleged breaches of the Human Rights Act in a healthcare context.
Chris Holme
Chris Holme
Employment & Pensions
Christopher Murray
Christopher Murray
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Christopher Kilner
Partner
Christopher Leadbetter
Projects & Construction
Claire Cutmore
Claire Cutmore
Projects & Construction
Claire Opacic
Claire is a partner in the casualty team and deals with a mixture of employers' liability and public liability claims. She also handles claims with issues under the New Roads and Street Works Act and has experience with product liability claims under the Consumer Protection Act and Sales of Goods Act, acting for both manufacturers and suppliers.
Claire Lawlor
Claire Lawlor
Claire is a partner in the Occupational Disease team and have over 25 years of personal injury litigation experience.She specialises predominately in short-tail occupational disease namely cumulative back injuries, work-related upper limb disorders, occupational asthma, dermatitis, and stress/bullying in the workplace. She also specialises in claims concerning food poisoning, food allergies, housing disrepair, carbon monoxide poisoning and EL/PL transmission of infectious diseases.Claire is the lead of BLM's COSHH Subject Matter Group, one of a number of SMGs which ensure the development and sharing of in-depth and market-leading subject matter expertise.She has been involved in large number of in-house and external client training sessions and contributes to BLM publications upon short-tail disease topics and tactics including QOCS and fundamental dishonesty/fraud issues.She works directly with a number of policyholders including food manufacturers/retailers on claim prevention, improving internal procedures and floodgate management most recently in relation COVID-19 claims and the impact of this upon other short-tail disease risks/claims.
Claire Dinoff
Claire Dinoff
Partner
Claire Collins
Claire Collins
I am a Partner at BLM based in the London catastrophic injury team. I joined BLM in March 2016. I deal with a wide range of catastrophic/ large loss defendant personal injury claims. I have over 20 years’ experience dealing with large and complex claims arising out of road traffic accidents in the UK and abroad. I have a strong technical background with many years’ experience dealing with high value, high profile personal injury claims for many leading insurers. I am regularly instructed to act on spinal cord, brain injury, amputation and other complex claims. I have a specific interest in brain injury claims and am a member of BLM's brain injury subject matter group. I acted on behalf of the defendant in the reported case of MacDonald V Burton 2019. I am an active member of FOIL and have spoken at a seminar to members on the recording of medical examinations. I have also mentored individual claims controllers at various insurers in their personal, technical and professional development.
Claire Petts
Claire Petts
Healthcare
Claire Raftery
Healthcare
Clare Garnett
Clare Garnett
Clare is a leading large loss and complex injury lawyer and a member of the BLM national catastrophic injury group, taking responsibility for the development and alignment of strategy within the group.Clare has extensive experience dealing with large and complex claims arising from industrial accidents, accidents at work and claims involving animals which result in a variety of values including catastrophic injury, chronic pain and complex issues.  Clare has developed a niche area of specialism within the equestrian market and is well-regarded for her knowledge and expertise within this area.  Clare has a particular interest in the racing industry and acts for a number of well-known owners and trainers. In addition to equestrian claims, Clare is instructed on a number of bovine and canine cases as well as industrial accidents, rail accidents and farming incidents.Clare has successfully fought to trial a large number of cases. She regularly advises on cases with fraud and exaggeration achieving favourable results and in particular achieving discontinuance despite liability being admitted. Clare advises on coverage and policy issues and also has extensive experience of employment and family law from her previous roles.Clare supervises and supports teams of proficient lawyers across the London and Southampton offices, all of whom deal with cases involving large and complex losses.Significant reported cases:Network Rail and QBE v Dermody [2016] EWHC 2060 (QB)UK Insurance Ltd v T/A Farrow & Sons [2016] EWHC 190 (QB)Tuson v. Murphy [2018] EWCA Civ 1461. Ford v. 1) Northern Rail 2) QBE Insurance [2018] EWHC 1417 (QBD)
Colin Rogerson
Colin Rogerson
Colin is a partner and practices in all aspects of children law and family formation, specialising in international and domestic surrogacy, assisted reproduction and same-sex families. He is recognised as one of the UK’s “go-to” specialist surrogacy lawyers and is favourably ranked by all leading legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500 and Spear’s 500. He has an excellent relationship with numerous fertility clinics around the world. His fertility and family formation practice includes advising on parentage issues following assisted reproduction and surrogacy, parental orders, adoption, co-parenting arrangements, posthumous conception and the use of embryos following divorce/separation. He also practices in all areas of children law, with many of his cases having either an international, LGBT+ or human rights/discrimination element. He advises on child arrangements disputes, international and domestic child relocations, international child abduction, recognition or enforcement of overseas court orders and jurisdictional issues. Colin is a qualified Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) and as such has rights of audience before all levels of Civil and Family Courts in England & Wales, including the High Court. He conducts much of my own advocacy. He has experience of appeals, including in the Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. 
Cormac Fitzpatrick
Cormac Fitzpatrick
Cormac is a partner and heads the catastrophic injury and large loss services on offer within BLM NI. He has particular experience of HSENI and police investigations involving fatalities or serious injury.The first corporate manslaughter prosecution in NI was against a small construction company Drumdollagh Construction Limited after a fatal accident in 2008. Instructions to act for this company involved a PACE interview with the Managing Director and owner and representation on a corporate manslaughter charge before the Crown Court in 2011. The same year Cormac represented a large construction concern facing charges after a fatal accident at RAF Aldergrove. Three of the company directors where interviewed under caution at Antrim PSNI custody suite over a three days. Representation was provided at each interview and before the Crown Court on H&S charges.
Craig Evans
International & Travel Claims
Craig Hevicon
Craig Hevicon
Partner - chartered legal executive (FCILEx)
Craig McAdam
Partner
Daniel Thomas
Daniel Thomas
Daniel has a wide range of experience specialising in fraudulent casualty, first party and motor claims. Dan represents a number of leading insurance companies dealing with a wide range of matters arising from suspicious claims, incuding large loss and fraudulent exaggeration as well as claims made under consumer and commercial insurance contracts. Daniel regularly advises upon complex indemnity issues, policy interpretation including invoking and declining claims based on a “fraud clause”, the application and interpretation of the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 and the Insurance Act 2015 dealing with the pre-contractual duty of disclosure and the insurer’s remedies when presented with a fraudulent claim. Daniel is part of the management team of the Fraud Practice Group and supervises a team of lawyers handing casualty and motor fraud claims.
Daniel Ruiz
Daniel Ruiz is a Partner in the firm’s Mexico City office with extensive experience in the insurance sector. As a trusted advisor to his clients doing business globally, Daniel and his team have managed complex cases involving coverages disputes, civil liability litigation and alternative dispute resolution in various jurisdictions. He regularly counsels domestic and international clients on liability claims, ranging from simple slip and fall accidents to larger casualty events across industries worldwide. Additionally, Daniel also represents clients in complex settlement negotiations to avoid or conclude judicial actions.
Daniel Varney
Daniel Varney
Daniel is a partner and Head of the National Business Advisory Team.He specialises in all aspects of corporate and commercial work, particularly mergers & acquisitions (national and international), venture capital transactions, corporate reorganisations, share schemes and commercial contracts. He principally advises businesses, entrepreneurs, owner managers and investors in growth businesses in various sectors, particularly in the property development, digital, technology and e-commerce sectors. In addition, Daniel has significant experience in advising public sector bodies with regard to regeneration and infrastructure projects.
David Milton
David Milton
Partner
David Thompson
David Thompson
David is a partner. David’s practice is focused on catastrophic injury and cross border litigation. He works with insurers, brokers, loss adjusters and corporate clients on claims within motor, employers’ liability, public liability and product liability risks. His caseload includes matters involving serious brain injury, spinal cord damage, amputation, chronic pain and fatalities. In respect of jurisdiction and conflict of laws disputes, David regularly advises clients as to the correct approach under Rome II, Brussels I (recast) and common law, and deals with complex issues involving foreign lawyers providing expert evidence to the court. He has experience in a wide range of industry sectors, including in particular leisure, aviation and construction. David acts for a nationwide broker scheme for businesses in the leisure industry, for which he has presented at a number of events on claims defensibility and claims trends analysis. He is a member of BLM’s Catastrophic Injury Amputation Subject Matter Group.
David Caswell
David Caswell
I am a partner and head of BLM's laims solutions business stream with responsibility for the quality of products, service delivery and performance of the claims solution business stream at BLM, which includes the work of almost 300 lawyers engaged in the delivery of solutions for our clients across casualty, motor, fraud, claims management services, costs and volume recovery. My litigation practice is focused upon the defence of serious and catastrophic injury claims, assisting our clients to repudiate the claims or minimise their indemnity spend where a settlement is required.  I acted on behalf of the successful defendant in the Court of Appeal in Macsalvors v Brush Transformers, a precedent setting decision upon the scope of the Construction Plant Association (CPA) conditions of hire. I also chair the Innovations Group at BLM focused upon Analytics and Automation products for the benefit of our clients.
David Taylor
David Taylor
Specialises in high value property damage work , defended and recovery, and in providing policy indemnity advice . Niche experience in flooding litigation having lectured and written on flood prevention law. Acted for consortium of insurers in recovery proceedings arising out of flooding in Edinburgh in 2000 – see Viewpoint Housing Association Limited 2007 SLT 772. Past experience in disease work, particularly asbestos related litigation. Gave evidence to Justice Committee of Scottish Government on implications of the Rights of Relatives to Damages (Mesothelioma) (Scotland) Bill.Granted extended rights of audience in 1999.
David Spencer
David Spencer
Partner dealing with catastrophic and fatal injury litigation arising from EL, PL, RTA and sports.  Panel solicitor for liability claims involving the UK governing bodies of 2 and 4 wheeled motorsport, and other national sporting and recreational associations.  Heads the Sports Practice Group and responsible for coordinating BLM’s Sports Law offering.  Regular speaker at customer and client events on claims handling, liability and civil procedure.
David Tait
David Tait
Disease
David Bennet
David Bennet
EMNR
David Leckie
EMNR
David Hansom
David Hansom
Projects & Construction
Dean Gormley
Real Estate Finance & Insolvency
Diana Goldstein
Diana Goldstein
Diana is a partner in the London regulatory team and has extensive experience representing the country’s top insurers. Her work includes advising companies and individuals who are investigated by the HSE and EHO. She provides crisis support to those involved in serious and fatal accidents, which includes provision of statements, interviews under caution, written representations and preparation to a trial, sentence or inquest.Diana also advises drivers who have been charged with road traffic offences, to include, causing death by dangerous/careless driving and gross negligence manslaughter. She regularly represents drivers at the police station. She also advises companies who may be investigated by the police following a fatal road accident.In addition to her regulatory work, she also has a civil abuse practice and is instructed by insurers and a variety of organisations, including public sector, faith and schools to respond to allegations of sexual abuse. 
Dileep Pisharody
Dileep Pisharody
Dileep is a partner with over 20 years’ experience. He specialises in handling professional indemnity claims with a particular focus on claims against construction professionals (most notably claims against architects and structural engineers relating to commercial property) as well as claims against the lead consultant and/or contract administrator for a construction project.He has dealt with insurance and reinsurance disputes across a number of classes of business most notably relating to property, professional indemnity and financial lines policies.
Donna Rawding
Donna Rawding
Donna is a partner and lead lawyer in BLM’s Catastrophic Injury and Large Loss team advising and representing individuals, SME's and corporate clients through insurer instructions. She is also the primary nominated catastrophic injury lawyer in Manchester for a specific insurer.She specialises in defending complex claims arising from EL, PL and motor accidents and has experience across a broad range of sectors. Her caseload includes serious and life changing orthopaedic and amputation injuries, chronic pain, brain injuries, spinal injuries, claims for psychiatric injury and fatal accidents. In view of the type of work she undertakes, she also regularly handles cases where the HSE and other regulatory bodies are involved.Donna is also experienced in handling fraudulent claims and has secured findings of fundamental dishonesty at trial.Donna leads BLM’s Policy Indemnity Unit and so regularly advises on policy cover and indemnity.
Duncan Batchelor
Duncan Batchelor
Healthcare
Edward Sainsbury
Edward Sainsbury
Partner
Edwin Millburn
Edwin Millburn
Partner
Eileen Doherty
Eileen Doherty
Partner
Eleanor Coates
EMNR
Eliya  Nkerebuka
Eliya Nkerebuka
Senior Tax Manager
Elizabeth Whittingham
Elizabeth Whittingham
Elizabeth is a partner specialising in property damage liability and recovery work and associated policy advice and manages two sub-teams which carry out work for major insurers and transport infrastructure providers. For a number of years Elizabeth was also part of the panel for recruiting trainee solicitors for the firm. Elizabeth is an active participant in the Women In Business initiative. Elizabeth's reported cases include:Scottish & Newcastle v GD Construction (2003) EWCA Civ 16Scottish Coal v Royal and Sun Alliance (2008) EWCH 880 (Comm)Aldgate v Unibar Plumbing & Heating (2010) EWCH 1063 (TCC)Walter Llewellyn and Rok Building v Exel Brickwork Limited (2010) EWHC 3415 (TCC)BMG v Galliford Try (2013) EWCH 3468 (TCC)Williams and Waistell v Network Rail (2018) EWCA Civ 1514UK Insurance v Carillion Specialist Services Limited and Construction Auditing Services Limited (2019) EWHC 1588 (TCC)
Elizabeth Wallace
Elizabeth Wallace
Partner and lead lawyer in BLM's Manchester catastrophic injury team handling complex and high value claims for large insurers and corporates. Liz specialises in large loss and catastrophic claims with a particular interest in amputation claims but a caseload including brain injury, severe multiple injury and spinal matters. Liz is recognised for adopting a collaborative, pragmatic and credible approach to claims solutions.
Ella Partner
Ella is a partner and acts on behalf of a broad range of clients, specialising in health and social care. These clients include NHS Resolution, indemnity organisations, NHS Trusts, County Councils and care homes.She advises in relation to all health and social care matters, including inquests, inquiries, clinical negligence and regulatory. She also advises on privacy matters, in particular, in relation to breach of confidentiality, data protection and freedom of information, and regularly advises both healthcare and other clients in this respect.Ella has a particular interest in multi-faceted cases, whereby a number of legal proceedings arise from the same incident. For example, she defended a senior doctor in relation to a high profile baby death arising from a drugs error, and provided representation at the Deanery, GMC, inquest and advised in respect of breach of confidentiality/data protection issues and potential criminal proceedings.
Elliot Pound
Elliot Pound
Elliot is a leading partner within BLM’s London office. He has provided advice on professional indemnity claims and insurance disputes throughout his 20 years at the firm, the last 14 years of which as a partner. He has considerable experience of all forms of civil litigation, including litigated claims in the High Court and county courts (including discrimination claims), judicial reviews and tribunal claims. Elliot has also been extremely successful in recent years in achieving excellent results for his clients through mediations. His professional indemnity practice covers a broad mix of emerging and traditional professions, from solicitors and surveyors, to educational establishments and trade unions. His key clients include the Royal College of Nursing and UNISON, for which his reported EAT decisions are Carl Jervis v UNISON (2006) and Brennan & ors v Sunderland City Council, GMB and UNISON (2012). Another important area is his work in an education context, where important clients include the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. His reported decisions in this field include R v University of Oxford ex parte Ahmed (2000, Administrative Court), Ahmed v University of Oxford (2002, Court of Appeal), Van Mellaert v University of Oxford (2006, High Court), S v Chapman (2008, Court of Appeal), Speed v London Borough of Waltham Forest and others (2010, Court of Appeal) and Saha v Imperial College (2011, High Court). He is often instructed in complex and high value matters, a notable example being nine distinct (but forensically similar) sex discrimination claims brought on behalf of in excess of 5,000 claimants which, had the claims been successful, would have had extremely damaging consequences for the client, both reputational and financial. In addition, Elliot regularly advises insurers in relation to all types of policy issues (such as the scope of coverage, aggregation, double insurance, insurer obligations and responsibilities and the insured’s obligations in relation to matters such as notification requirements, policy conditions, breach of warranty, misrepresentation, non-disclosure and fraud). He also advises in relation to a wide range of policies (including public liability, employer’s liability, products liability, medical malpractice and other forms of professional indemnity) and is frequently called upon to advise insurers when they are considering, or wish to investigate the possibility of, taking a policy point against an insured, or where proceedings are issued or threatened against them (whether by insureds, other insurers or claimants).
Emily List
Emily List
Partner
Emma Eccles
Emma Eccles
Partner
Emma Ager
Emma Ager
IFPD
Emma Taylor
Emma is a partner in the public sector team and has experience in dealing with all types of personal injury claims. She works predominantly in defendant insurance litigation handling claims for local authorities and other corporate clients including all varieties of negligence claims.Emma has developed an interest in dealing with catastrophic injury claims involving traumatic brain injury and other serious injuries and has extensive experience of successfully defending matters to trial.
Enrique Garza
Enrique Garza
Enrique has over 30 years of experience in marine and insurance law, representing foreign and national companies in most of the major transactions and casualties in Mexico. He also advises clients involved in the oil and gas industry. Enrique has a particular specialism in offshore operations, public tender processes and the administration of Pemex contracts.
Enrique Jr Garza Tello
Enrique Jr Garza Tello
Enrique Jr Garza Tello is a Foreign Legal Advisor in the firm’s Mexico City office with extensive experience in energy, maritime and environmental law. Based in Houston, Enrique Jr advises on compliance and contract administration matters for several oil & gas operators, including advising on regulatory and compliance transactions for drillers.
Eurof Lloyd-Lewis
EMNR
Felipe Hoetz
Felipe Hoetz
Partner
Fergal Cathie
Fergal Cathie
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Frances Ross
Frances Ross
Employment & Pensions
Frank Hughes
Frank Hughes
Frank is a partner and Head of BLM's Glasgow office.He has experience in conducting insurer-related litigation across a wide arena, including to the Supreme Court. He specialises in complex loss and emerging risks, particularly abuse and has a significant background in disease litigation and large loss.Frank has been an accredited specialist in personal injuries for many years and has acted as an expert witness in solicitors’ negligence.For many years he tutored in Judicial Review at Glasgow University and he is the author of an online resource on Scottish Court procedure.On many occasions Frank has presented publicly on insurance-related subjects, both nationally and internationally.
Gabriela Ángel Navarro
With more than 7 years of experience, she specializes her practice in commercial complex litigation and international arbitration, providing legal advice to maritime, infrastructure and oil & gas industries, as well as insurance and financial sectors. She also has a great experience in complex bankruptcy proceedings. She has acted as counsel in arbitration procedures under the rules of the  ICC, ICSID, CAM and CANACO,  as well as in ad-hoc arbitrations. She has been invited to participate as co-arbitrator and administrative secretariat in CAM procedures.
Gemma Parker
Gemma Parker
Partner Gemma is based in the large loss and catastrophic injury team in Southampton. Gemma runs her own case load of multi-track personal injury claims in relation to a wide variety of employer’s liability, public liability and motor claims. Gemma handles all aspects of the claims and investigations whether pre-litigated or litigated. Gemma’s experience includes acting for a local charity in relation to claims brought for sub-standard care and acting for insurance companies in relation to multi-car pile ups with complicated liability arguments. Acting in cases where there are issues in relation to vicarious liability, for insurance companies in cases where there are complicated causation arguments and/or acceleration arguments and in cases where there are contribution or recovery claims. Gemma has been successful in having cases discontinued or obtaining substantial reductions in relation to contributory negligence, where appropriate. Gemma regularly receives instructions to act in claims involving intricate psychiatric and chronic pain symptoms, life changing orthopaedic injuries and brain injuries. She is experienced at recoveries where there has been clinical negligence following treatment for primary insured accidents. Gemma also manages a team of lawyers in the catastrophic injury team in Southampton and is responsible for their supervision, development and training. Recent settled cases include: T v H (2020) – The accident was a minor RTA, where the defendant came off his motorbike and the claimant alleged he had to swerve to avoid hitting the defendant causing injuries, there was no actual collision. The case was pleaded initially at £1.3 million as a result of a minor orthopaedic injury which developed into chronic pain. The claimant also alleged he developed alcohol dependency as a result of his psychiatric injuries following the accident. T was a 39 year old man who advanced his claim on the basis that as a result of the pain he would never be able to work again. BLM and the insurer were not convinced by the claimants medical evidence and obtained their own and were able to settle the claim for £85,263.44 (of which £35,263.44 was repayable to the CRU). J v P (2020) – The accident was a public liability claim. The claimant alleged that he slipped on a wet step a he was leaving the Jacuzzi area, after being told by a member of staff the area was closed. He alleged there were no wet floor signs, no sign to warn the area was closed, no hand rail for him to hold to steady himself and that the flooring in the area was not non-slip. As a result the claimant suffered a large tear of his right shoulder rotator cuff which was deemed irreparable. The defendant denied liability. The claimant’s schedule of loss totalled £323,159.43 with some heads of loss, including general damages, still to be confirmed. The evidence was based on the claimant’s assertion that his shoulder injury was permanent, caused entirely by the accident and he was never going to be able to work again. The largest head of loss was £191,829.82 for future care and assistance. The claim was settled on a commercial basis for £25,000 net of CRU (the offer was approximately £39,000 gross). W v N(1) and B(2) – The accident was an employer’s liability claim. The claimant was working for the defendant as a delivery operative. The claimant cut his foot on glass which apparently went through the sole of his shoe during a delivery in the second defendant’s pub. As a result he had to have all of his toes, other than the big toe, amputated.  The claimant was wearing his own shoes (not safety boots) at the time of the accident as he alleged he was told he did not need safety boots. He suffers from diabetes and there was clear suggestion in the medical records that he was not fully complying with his medication regime, which may have contributed to his injuries. Liability was denied by both defendants’. Despite the injuries the claim was modest at £35,000. The defendants made a joint global offer (damages and costs) of £30,000 which was accepted by the claimant. The defendant’s split the payment of the offer 50:50.
Gemma Pearce
Gemma qualified as a barrister in 2001, cross-qualifying as a solicitor in 2005. She has 20 years’ experience in the sector specialising in shipping, marine and non-marine insurance, international trade and in the travel and cruise sectors. Gemma handles all aspects of claims whether pre-litigated or litigated involving charter parties, bills of lading, supply and carriage of goods, cargo, passenger and crew claims, with particular emphasis on P&I and FD&D matters. She has also worked extensively in the area of policy coverage disputes. She regularly assists owners, charterers, operators, brokers and insurers in a wide range of jurisdictions in both, marine and non-marine insurance matters relating to the industry and associated, international trade(s).She also advises on personal injury and loss of life cases; medical negligence claims and class actions arising out of illness and disease outbreaks, as well as extensive occupational disease experience in the sector.She draws upon her practical experience and real commercial understanding when handling marine casualty work but with particular emphasis on shipping, offshore and transport-related personal injury and fatal accident cases including accidents involving cargo ships, passenger ships, offshore platforms/CTV and port/terminal operations. She also drafts/advises on health and safety procedures, policies and risk management, and trains management and personnel.On the non-marine side, Gemma has worked extensively with a global self-insured chemical company for many years, handling disease claims on their behalf and a large retail client. Gemma works with numerous P & I Clubs within the international group, traditional mainstream insurers and bespoke marine specialist insurers and brokers. Additionally Gemma has worked with a large ship owner for 20 years, providing claims handling services to their Ro-Ro fleet. Gemma also works closely with international law firms in the sector, including those based in Central and North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Gemma Brannigan
Gemma Brannigan
Healthcare
Gerald Nangi
Gerald Nangi
Partner
Gill Rothwell
Partner
Gilles Graham
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Graeme Moore
Graeme is a partner at BLM's Belfast office and is regularly instructed by several major London insurers in relation to professional indemnity claims on behalf of professionals such as architects, insurance brokers, surveyors, engineers and accountants. He also advises insurers in relation to professional indemnity claims with a personal injury element, including catastrophic injuries. He regularly advises insurers on policy cover including issues such as non-disclosure, late notification and duty to co-operate. Graeme regularly acts in personal injury claims including large loss and HSENI investigations and prosecutions.He has advised insurers in relation to claims litigated in the Republic of Ireland.
Graeme Watson
Graeme Watson
Healthcare
Graham Mitchell
Graham Mitchell
Employment & Pensions
Greg MacDougall
Greg MacDougall
Greg is a partner and a complex loss specialist dealing with the most complex and highest value of claims across a wide range or areas from Motor, EL, PL, accidents abroad and medical-related litigation.He has specialised in this area of work since 2002 and is actively involved as the Scottish CRP for a range of insurers, brokers and corporates. As a solicitor advocate he appears in all the courts in Scotland and handles claims from cradle to grave. Most recently he was junior counsel to Andrew Smith QC for a case involving a spectator to the Glasgow Bin Lorry tragedy and its subsequent appeal.He acts for a large range of corporates including tour operators in relation to fatalities and catastrophic injuries abroad and leads a team of travel litigation specialists handling sickness and accident claims. He acts also for surgeons, nurses, podiatrists, care homes, optometrists and other healthcare professions in a range of claims including claims involving life changing injury of the highest severity. He also handles claims involving hotels, restaurants, waste management companies, distribution and transport companies and aviation companies. He is a member of the Personal Injury Users Group in the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court.
Gus Peake
Gus Peake
Partner
Hafsa  Sasya
Hafsa Sasya
Senior Associate
Hanna Platt
Hanna Platt
Hanna is a partner in BLM's Property Damage team and specialises in all aspects of property damage claims including policy coverage disputes, subrogated recoveries and third party liability.  She regularly deals with complex and high value claims involving a range of perils with a particular emphasis on fires, floods, explosions, landslips, escapes of water and mechanical and electrical defects.Hanna also advises insurers on policy coverage issues relating to both commercial and domestic policies and including matters such as breach of the duty of fair presentation under the Insurance Act 2015, policy conditions and exclusions, contribution clauses, waiver and affirmation and the basis of settlement provisions.Cases have included a number of high value fire claims involving issues of workmanship relating to servicing and maintenance, a third party liability claim arising out of damage caused by a chemical explosion, escape of water claims relating to mechanical and engineering defects and a multi-million pound policy coverage dispute involving non-disclosures of material facts and breach of the duty of fair presentation under the Insurance Act 2015.
Hannah  Wallace
Hannah Wallace
Hannah specialises in clinical negligence claims for NHS Resolution, within the Health and Advisory Litigation team.
Hatty Sumption
Hatty Sumption
EMNR
Hayley Johnson
Hayley Johnson
Whilst Hayley has a particular focus on real estate financing, she also regularly leads corporate and leveraged finance transactions as well as asset-based financing deals.She has considerable knowledge of offshore financing structures and funds transactions in the real estate finance arena. Hayley also has experience of acting on stressed and distressed loans and restructuring situations, acting for lenders, investors and borrowers.
Helen Smith
Helen Smith
Helen is a partner and specialises in commercial property matters including acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant work, corporate support and property finance. She acts for individuals, investors, developers and various local authorities and public sector bodies.She has particular experience in dealing with landlord and tenant work and tenant portfolio management, including leases, licences, assignments, sub-letting and surrenders; she acts for both landlords and tenants.Helen also deals with school academy conversions and liaises with various schools, academy trusts, local authorities and the Department for Education.
Helen Rowlands
Helen Rowlands
Helen specialises in the defence of professional negligence and malpractice claims against law firms and has extensive experience of litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal and of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.  Her practice focuses on complex and high value claims against magic circle and other international law firms, and she has defended a wide range of claims, including those involving structured finance, pensions, tax, property, litigation, contract, and trust issues. She also acts for insurers as monitoring counsel in relation to malpractice claims and advises on policy coverage. Helen also has experience of advising on risk management, regulatory investigations and disciplinary issues involving law firms. Helen has published articles in Commercial Litigation Journal, New Law Journal and Solicitors Journal, and speaks regularly on professional liability and risk management issues.
Henry Kirkup
Henry Kirkup
Henry is a partner and Head of the SHE & Regulatory practice group and lead the Leeds general liability team.He is a contact partner for a number of insurers, managing agents and companies and his practice involves advising clients involved in high value claims for damages as well as claims for damages under the Human Rights Act.He regularly represents clients in corporate manslaughter and HSE prosecutions and investigations. His experience includes dealing with claims involving chronic pain, serious head injuries (including subtle brain injury) and serious spinal injuries.Henry regularly speaks at seminars on all aspects of health and safety law.
Ian Walker
Ian Walker
Ian is a partner in the personal injury team in London. He specialises in all aspects of road traffic litigation, ranging from high value personal injury claims, to fatal accidents, and motor prosecutions. Ian successfully represented the defendant in the Court of Appeal decision of Armsden v Kent Police [2009] EWCA Civ 631, where its liability was reduced from 100% to 40%. Ian also recovered in excess of £120,000.00 in costs in the case of Lyons v Chief Constable of Kent Police [2012] EWHC 364 QB, when the claimant failed to beat a Part 36 offer following a trial on causation. Ian also succesfully represented the defendant in the case of Dursan v J Sainsbury Plc [2015] EWHC 233 (QB), which was a fatal case involving a pedestrian.
Ian Leach
Ian Leach
Ian heads up the firm’s Edinburgh office and has over  30 years experience of civil litigation. He acts for insurers , corporate clients , and public bodies  in complex and high-value actions including motor, employers liability and public liability cases. He successfully acted for the defenders in the following  recent cases - William MacBean v Scottish Water 2020 CSOH  29/5/20Susan Hughes v Fife Council and Another 2019 CSOH 19/3/19 Jacqueline Edwards v Fife Council and Another 2019 CSOH 19/3/19Danielle Weddle v Glasgow City Council 2019 SC EDIN 42Linda Smith v Scottish Water 2014 CSOH 140He is a member of the firm's executive board .
Ian Ginbey
Ian Ginbey
Real Estate
Imani Mselle
Imani Mselle
Senior Associate
Ivan Wilkinson
Ivan Wilkinson
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Ivor Edwards
Ivor Edwards
Corporate Insurance
Jagdeep Hayre
Jagdeep Hayre
Jagdeep is a partner and specialises in advising on a wide range of complex and high value claims including historic and institutional abuse, Social Services negligence, failure to remove and HRA claims, contract and commercial litigation, common law, construction & property disputes, fraud recoveries work, professional indemnity, and personal injury.He is a member of the BLM Abuse and Neglect Team.Jag is also instructed in undertaking high profile strategic investigations. He has a broad range of experience acting for claimants and defendants alike. Jag joined BLM in 2014. Prior to BLM, Jag had a long career in local government where he was head of civil litigation at Birmingham City Council, before which Jag worked in private practice.Cases include: defence of a £16m+ dispute in the technology construction court for breach of warranties under contract, arising from a large scale voluntary housing stock transfer in 1996; defence of a £2.4m claim brought by department communities and local government for recoupment of a European regional development fund grant for breach of grant conditions and failure to achieve performance milestones; defence of 1.75m tripartite LGPS pension dispute; acting for claimants in respect of several multi-million pound construction disputes (value £1m-40m) in respect of claims for overpayment, misapplication of the pricing mechanisms under the contract, miss-measurement, works not undertaken or not necessary.Jag also has group litigation experience and acted as lead defence solicitor in respect of uninsured historic abuse claims for a local authority in respect a care regime between 1979-83 at a regional residential assessment centre to include defending to trial claims against numerous former Lord Mayor’s, being ex-officio members of the establishment in the early 1960/70’s.Key clients include Birmingham City Council, London Borough of Bromley, London Borough of Lambeth, Dudley MBC, Gloucestershire County Council, Middlesbrough Council, Monmouthshire County Council, Northamptonshire County Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Telford & Wrekin Council, Torfaen County Borough Council and Walsall MBC & North Somerset Council.
Jai Sharma
Jai Sharma
EMNR
James Major
James Major
Employment & Pensions
James Harvey
James is a partner and heads up the BLM Broker and Corporate Sector Groups.He specialises in employers' liability, public liability and motor with significant experience of acting for clients in a number of sectors to include facilities services, retail, leisure, manufacturing and construction.His clients include major PLCs as well as composite insurance companies.James leads BLM's relationship with Airmic and BIBA and is a member of BLM's Executive Board.
James Preece
James Preece
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
James Cooper
James Cooper
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
James Roberts
James Roberts
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Jane Lang
Jane Lang
Jane is head of BLM’s healthcare advice practice group. She acts for medical and dental defence organisations on behalf of their members and private clients. She defends doctors and dentists before the General Medical Council and General Dental Council and represents doctors and dentists at Local Health Board and Primary Care Trust performers list hearings. Jane also acts for and represents medical and dental professionals before the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal. She defends medical and dental professionals in criminal proceedings and advises and represents health professionals at inquests and public inquiries. Jane also advises on child protection issues. She is a member of a dedicated team who act for healthcare professionals faced with criminal allegations
Jeremia  Tarimo
Jeremia Tarimo
Senior Associate
Jeremy Stephen
Jeremy Stephen
Real Estate
Jill Wigginton
Partner
Jim Sherwood
Jim Sherwood
Jim leads the product liability and recall team at BLM, acting for insurers, suppliers and manufacturers. With his team he handles domestic and international product liability and recall claims and regulatory issues across a range of industry sectors, from minor injury claims to major group litigation and international claims, working with a global network of specialists. He provides coverage advice arising from public and product liability policy issues. His team handles high-value fire/flood damage commercial property claims involving products designed, supplied and/or installed. He leads the BLM team acting for the main defendant in the PIP Breast Implant Group Litigation and also acted for a number of defendants in the ‘toxic sofa’ group litigation, the largest group action ever mounted in the UK. He was a guest speaker at the annual Liability Underwriters Group (LUG) conference in 2014, presenting on group litigation and emerging risks in product liability. He led the product recall workshop at the annual AIRMIC conference in 2014. Jim has been recognised as an expert for several years by the legal directories, praised by clients as an “astute tactician” and for providing an “excellent service and proactive approach”.
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Jodi Hargreaves
Jodi Hargreaves
Partner
Joe Wakeford
Joe Wakeford
Joe is a highly experienced catastrophe injury partner, dealing with complex loss and high value claims. He has a background in clinical negligence. He is nominated partner for the NHSLA and works with NHS Trusts, representing them through inquests and advising on a wide range of healthcare issues. He also manages their non-clinical claims. Joe was one of the key partners responsible for establishing BLM’s presence in Dublin. Member of the Bristol Medico Legal Society and Civil Courts Committee.
John O"Shea
John O"Shea
John is a partner with expertise in speciality and financial lines and is Head of the property damage department. John advises on all property-related claims, both domestic and commercial, advising in particular on fire and flood cases, engineering and construction disputes and geotechnical claims. John also advises insurers on policy coverage matters, which is a significant part of his practice.
John Flaherty
EMNR
John Roberts
Associate
John Collins
John Collins
John specialises specialises in defending complex and high value liability claims brought against a variety of organisations.  He also handles multi party claims arising from food poisoning outbreaks in the catering and leisure industries, and also represents client’s interests at Inquests in the Coroner’s court.   His experience also covers all aspects of casualty fraud.  He has represented clients on a number of occasions in the Court of Appeal and also acts for clients in cross-border matters involving parties outside the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
John Whittaker
John Whittaker
EMNR
John Morris
John Morris
Projects & Construction
Jonathan Chaimovic
Jonathan Chaimovic
Employment & Pensions
Jonathan Brown
Jonathan Brown
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Judith Bloor
Judith Bloor
Judith is a partner in BLM’s casualty team. She handles a variety of employers’ liability and public liability claims including specialist and complex claims for public sector and commercial clients. Her expertise includes handling highways claims, workplace stress, bullying and harassment claims, asbestos-related claims and occupational cancer claims, asthma, work related upper limb disorders. She has experience in representing local authority clients at Inquests.She also provides training to clients.
Judith Duffin
Judith Duffin
Healthcare
Julian Smart
Julian Smart
Julian is a partner and specialises in commercial fraud and recovering misappropriated funds on behalf of clients, with particular expertise in freezing and tracing assets. Having previously worked in BLM's London office Julian moved to Birmingham to establish the recovery and professional indemnity team. He is instructed by professional indemnity insurers to defend negligence claims against professionals including: surveyors, accountants, architects and engineers.
Julie Morrissy
Julie Morrissy
Julie is an experienced construction and engineering lawyer with a practice that combines contentious and non-contentious work for a range of public- and private-sector clients. She has particular expertise in advising on procurement strategies and contract preparation, negotiation and administration. Julie works with clients on a number of different contract structures including traditional, design and build, EPC contracts, construction management, consultants' appointments, guarantees and bonds. In addition, she has been involved in a number of infrastructure, schools, energy from waste, and rail projects and commercial schemes including office developments, hotels, retail, distribution centres and urban regeneration.
Karen Dance
Karen is a partner and has been involved in insurance litigation for over 25 years, specialising in defended reparation cases.She advises and represents self-insured companies and businesses as well as a wide range of insurers, brokers and claims handlers and has considerable experience in defending a wide range of employers' liability, public liability and RTA claims, including complex and catastrophic claims.She has a special interest in animal, veterinary and equestrian litigation, having previously held the position of Director for Governance with Horse Scotland, responsible for lobbying the Scottish Government for legislative changes in the equestrian welfare environment.Karen is head of the business stream for Scotland and the driving force behind a number of our litigation and technology initiatives, which focus on providing the best service to our clients.
Karen Boto
Karen Boto
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Kate Lister
Projects & Construction
Katherine Lees
Katherine advises in relation to a wide range of both short and long-tail disease claims, including asbestos, occupational cancers, asthma and dermatitis and has experience of handling claims involving allegations of stress, bullying and harassment. She has dealt with high value cases involving multiple claimants, including legionella, carbon monoxide poisoning, housing disrepair and water contamination in both an employers and public liability setting. She also advises private, public and third sector, including local, national and international companies, social housing providers, hospitals and the National Trust.
Katie Costello
Katie Costello
Katie is a partner and has over 25 years' experience of acting for healthcare professionals in regulatory and disciplinary hearings, police interviews, criminal trials, and inquests, including several cases which have had national media coverage. She is often asked by defence organisations to assist in their more complex and difficult cases.
Katrina Gray
Katrina Gray
Katrina is a partner in the Belfast office and a qualified solicitor advocate. She has considerable experience advising a variety of insurance clients and self-funded companies in respect of defending motor claims, indemnity issues and employers' liability and public liability personal injury cases, including large loss claims. Katrina manages the recovery team, dealing with both motor and property cases to recover outlay on behalf of a number of insurance companies.  She also has specialist experience in employment law cases acting for both employees and employers in a range of industrial tribunal and fair employment tribunal disputes.Katrina regularly represents clients in regulatory proceedings before their professional regulatory body.
Keith Conway
Keith Conway
Real Estate
Kelly Matthews
Kelly Matthews
Executive Claims Advisor
Kendra McKinney
Kendra McKinney
Kendra is a partner and specialises in all aspects of family law including: child arrangements, complex contested children matters, prohibited steps orders and specific issue orders, divorce and dissolution of civil partnership, matrimonial finance matters, domestic abuse, injunctions, non molestation orders and occupation orders, grandparent contacts with children, financial applications brought on behalf of children where the parents are unmarried, international children matters, international and internal relocation of children, special guardianship, unmarried cohabitation disputes, adoption and public law care proceedings.She is routinely instructed in relation to financial proceedings arising out of divorce, often acting on behalf of high net worth individuals. She is particularly adept at dealing with matters where there are substantial pension and business assets.Kendra has extensive experience in dealing with complex children law matters both for private individuals such as parents and grandparents and has acted for the local authority. She also represents parties in both children and divorce cases when there are elements of domestic abuse and substance abuse present, including involvement from the local authority.Past cases have involved issues arising in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.She frequently deals with cases involving serious allegations of emotional, physical, psychological and/or sexual abuse, cultural and religious issues, and mental health issues, together with intractable contact disputes. She has undertaken many cases regarding the lawful and unlawful removal of children both within the jurisdiction and internationally. 
Kerris Dale
Kerris Dale
Kerris is a partner specialising in defending motor claims for a range of major insurers.She is Head of BLM's Cardiff office and Head of the BLM's Motor Practice Group.In recent years, Kerris has developed a specialism in catastrophic injury claims relating to brain and spinal injuries and amputation claims.
Khalid Mahmood
Khalid Mahmood
Partner
Kim McLeod
Kim McLeod
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Kirsty Yuill
Kirsty Yuill
Kirsty is a Partner in BLM’s Scottish insurance team with over 18 years’ experience in litigation, acting for insurers and self-insured clients as defenders in both the Court of Session and sheriff courts.She joined BLM in January 2015. She has specialised in personal injury cases since 2004, initially acting for a number of legal expenses insurers and accident management companies representing pursuers and defenders before focusing on defender personal injury work. She has a wealth of experience in dealing with all types of claims including medical negligence, accidents at work, slips and trips and road traffic accidents involving severe and catastrophic injuries, multiple heads of claim and fatalities. Kirsty has particular expertise in handling high value and complex cases and claims where there are validation concerns. She also has niche expertise in dealing with claims pursued with reference to the Road Traffic Act 1988, Article 75 and the Uninsured Drivers’ Agreement. She regularly provides advice to clients in respect of motor insurance disputes concerning policy interpretation and the application of the 1988 Act. Kirsty is a member of FOIL and sits on the Scottish FOIL Fraud sector focus team.She regularly participates in claim surgeries for insurer clients and delivers training on developing trends in Scotland. She also work swith insurers on litigation avoidance and strategy operations.Outside of work, she is a member of the Scottish Youth Football Association (SYFA) protection panel dealing with disciplinary matters concerning youth coaches, child protection issues and also providing advice to the SYFA on the fitness of candidates who apply to become youth coaches.  
Laura Topping
Laura Topping
Laura is a partner with over 16 years experience in pre-litigated and litigated industrial disease work. she acts for a variety of insurer and corporate clients and has a particular specialism in noise-induced hearing loss, vibration white finger and upper limb disorders.
Laura Trezise
Laura Trezise
Partner
Laura Coates
Laura Coates
Projects & Construction
Laurie Swain
Laurie Swain
LA, Police & Emergency Services
Liam Murphy
Liam Murphy
Liam is a partner and has worked as a property damage and policy coverage lawyer on behalf of major insurers since 2009, dealing with claims across the full range of insured perils including fire, flood and escape of water. He has a breadth of knowledge and experience across complex and high value policy coverage, liability and recovery matters. This experience includes public and product liability claims as well as advising insurers on policy indemnity issues and contractual disputes. Over the years, he has also gained particular expertise in insurance fraud as well as advising insurers on Financial Ombudsman Service referrals. Liam adopts a holistic approach to all claims to ensure that clients benefit from a commercial and pragmatic approach tailored to the specific facts of each individual case and their own requirements.
Liz Watton
EMNR
Liz Jenkins
Projects & Construction
Louisa Martindale
Louisa Martindale
Partner.
Louise Stubbs
Louise Stubbs
Louise is a partner in the occupational disease team.She advises both insurer and corporate clients in relation to a wide range of disease litigation, both long and short tail. Her work has an emphasis on claims for bullying and harassment, alleged overwork, PTSD (in particular following assaults in the workplace or other incidents at work) and stress arising from disciplinary/grievance procedures.She works closely with BLM’s prison team in relation to civil claims for psychiatric injury. In addition, Louise works on a variety of occupational cancer claims (for example cancers of the bladder, kidney and blood) and also asbestos-related claims.
Lucy Clements-Smith
Lucy Clements-Smith
Partner
Lucy Coleman
Lucy Coleman
Partner
Lucy Ryder
Partner, specialises in a variety of work, most particularly inquests, judicial review and administrative law, claims for breach of human rights and employers’ and public liability claims. Acts for critical services suppliers, statutory bodies and retailers. Interested in restraint asphyxia, occupational disease and false imprisonment.
Lucy Frith
Lucy Frith
Projects & Construction
Luisa Lamb
Luisa Lamb
Partner.
Mandip Sagoo
Mandip Sagoo
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Marie Atkinson
Marie Atkinson
Marie is a partner in the catastrophic injury team and specialises in conducting the defence of high value motor and casualty claims with a varied caseload of public liability, employers’ liability and motor cases, representing several leading insurance companies. Her caseload contains both litigated and non-litigated matters arising from fatal accidents and those involving multiple defendants and brain injured claimants. It also encompasses cases involving provisional damages, PPOs, issues of mental capacity and deputyship costs. She also advises in cases involving policy issues, particularly the cross-over between employers’ liability and public liability policies and cases involving dual insurance issues. Marie is a member of BLM’s Court of Protection Subject Matter Group. Marie is also assistant head of BLM’s Policy Indemnity Unit and a member of the specialist sub-group covering claims where there are multiple policies in place.
Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson
Partner dealing primarily with serious and complex claims involving significant and multiple orthopaedic injuries, spinal injuries, head/brain injuries, chronic pain cases and fatal claims.
Mark Wing
Mark Wing
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Mark Aitken
Mark Aitken
Mark is a partner and works closely with insurers who monitor the increase in fraudulent property claims at both the claims and underwriting stages to detect and defend such claims.Mark has worked in the insurance sector for over 25 years and has extensive experience of high value and complex property fraud claims involving arson, staged theft and other deliberate or exaggerated damage. In addition to property and commercial claims involving fraud, he also specialises in related policy coverage issues. He regularly advises insurers preparing responses to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Mark Chetwood
Mark Chetwood is a partner and specialises in large loss, complex and sensitive claims. Mark has a particular expertise in handling military claims, including accidents involving aircraft and vehicles, gunshot wounding, explosions, parachuting accidents and various training-related accidents. Mark also has extensive experience in retail claims and advises on risk management systems and effective measures top reduce exposure claims. He is a member of the BLM transport, environment and regulatory group.
Mark Eisen
Mark Eisen
Mark is a partner and Head of the public sector team in Liverpool. He is responsible for supervising a team of litigators and claims handlers dealing with EL, PL and product liability claims.His experience has involved working with public sector clients and the military on a wide variety of different claims and his specialism is in handling large loss, and complex EL & PL claims.He has many years' experience of working for large national retail and supermarket companies on a wide variety of different claims including slips and trips, manual handling, defective equipment, product liability, chronic pain, assault, harassment and fatalities.He also advises on risk management systems and effective measures to reduce exposure to claims.
Mark Donaldson
Mark Donaldson
SHE & Regulatory
Mark Williamson
Mark Williamson
Corporate General & Commercial
Mark Brookes
Mark Brookes
SHE & Regulatory
Mark Bisset
Mark Bisset
Aviation Finance
Marko Kraljevic
Marko Kraljevic
EMNR
Martin Smith
Martin Smith
Martin Smith is a partner and is head of the motor team in Birmingham. He specialises in representing clients operating in a wide range of industrial and retail sectors in relation to personal injury claims, employers’ and public liability, motor cases and general insurance issues.
Mary Anne Roff
Mary Anne Roff
Projects & Construction
Matthew Harrington
Matthew Harrington
Matthew was appointed senior partner on 1 March 2018 having previously held a position on the firm’s Partnership Board helping to manage the firm’s people development, partners and culture.His role is to chair the firm’s Executive Board, lead and co-ordinate the firm’s continued strategy to grow and diversify, sustaining the firm’s position as a provider of legal service for the insurance sector and London market as well as strengthening its business in insurance risk and commercial law.He has been a partner since joining the firm in 2007 and has specialised in health and safety, environmental and food hygiene matters, advising on crisis response, accident investigation and liaison with external investigating bodies.Matthew's practice also includes occupational disease, large and complex casualty claims, including cases of the utmost severity such as brain, spinal injury and amputation cases.In the recent past, he has been the client relationship partner for some of the firm’s largest insurer and corporate clients.
Matthew Ford
Matthew is Head of BLM's London Casualty team and deals with large loss, complex and sensitive injury claims for insurers and corporate clients.He leads the Travel and Tour Operator Liability team and is head of the Travel Practice Group.
Matthew Stanton
Matthew Stanton
Matthew is a partner and since joining BLM he has dealt exclusively with occupational disease work on behalf of insurers and defendant companies. He deals with a variety of claims including noise-induced hearing loss, vibration white finger, work-related upper limb disorders, stress/psychiatric injuries, cumulative back injuries, respiratory conditions and dermatitis. He has a particular interest in fraudulent disease claims, having achieved a finding of fundamental dishonesty in one of his high profile cases.
Michael Pether
Michael Pether
Michael is a partner and specialises in the defence of high profile sexual/physical abuse and bullying claims, including group litigation.He is nominated by several religious organisations, local authorities and insurers to deal with their most sensitive claims.He has represented clients as core participants in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and advises insurance and non-insurance clients on IICSA-related matters.Michael has significant experience in advising a variety of organisations including those in the public sector, faith, education and sport sectors in connection with responding to allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse.He specialises in high value and complex employers' liability, public liability and abuse claims.
Michael Cairns
Michael Cairns
I qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and was made partner in 2014. My main focus is handling occupational disease claims with a particular focus on NIHL, HAVS and asbestos-related diseases. I act for a variety of insurers and corporate clients. I regularly write articles and deliver training to clients and others in relation to occupational disease claims.
Michael Swangard
Michael Swangard
EMNR
Michelle Crorie
Michelle Crorie
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Michelle McCullough
Michelle McCullough
Michelle is a partner, and since qualifying in 2012 she has specialised in insurance litigation, handling claims for a number of major insurers. Her work involves motor claims with a focus on credit hire as well as complex employer and public liability claims. With a keen eye for detail she advises insurance clients on complex policy indemnity issues specialising in fire and property damage claims. Michelle has experience in professional negligence claims particularly surveyors’ and architects’ negligence. Following completion of the Law Society (NI) Certificate in Advanced Advocacy in 2017 Michelle regularly conducts her own advocacy including acting on behalf of nurses at Nursing Midwifery Council regulatory hearings. Michelle is part of the editorial team that puts together BLM Northern Ireland's monthly newsletter keeping clients up-to-date on legal developments.
Michelle Flint
Michelle Flint
Michelle is a partner who has been part of BLM’s specialist Prison Team for the last 15 years. She acts on behalf of the secure estate including private prison sector and specialises in representing clients at Inquests following a death in prison or police custody (Article 2 ECHR). Michelle’s expertise also includes defending civil claims, her work is varied and comprises of claims for assault, false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office, breach of human rights, and negligence. She is also instructed on group actions, judicial reviews and civil claims pursued arising out of a death in custody.
Michelle Penn
Partner, heads up the OD team in London and specialises in all types of disease claims and advoises on plocy coverage issues. Michelle heads up the care /neglect group in London and manages a Care Matters Blog.Michelle chaired the review of the disease and illness PAP which introduced the Mesothelioma annex. Michelle contributes to responses to consultations concerning reforms relevant to disease litigation. Michelle was appointed Chieff Assesor of the Disease Accreditation Scheme at The law Socety .Michelle also worked with the ABI on the developmentof the Mesothelioma Support fund.Michelle is BLMs Training Principal and is reponsible for trainees nationally.Mchelle presents at various seminars both for BLM and externally and also provides training for both clients and at BLM.
Mike Dobson
Mike Dobson
Mike is Head of the Large Loss and Technical Business Stream taking responsibility for the operational and technical excellence of this business unit. Within the business stream there are over 200 partners and lawyers handling cases of the utmost severity, value and complexity including Catastrophic and Large Loss Injury, Occupational Disease, Regulatory, Abuse and Travel litigation. Mike is a specialist Catastrophic Injury and Foreign Jurisdiction lawyer with over 25 years’ experience acting for insurance companies across Motor and Casualty claims. He has a personal caseload dealing with cases of the utmost severity involving serious brain injury, paraplegia, fatalities in the workplace, amputations and chronic pain handling claims across Jurisdictions. Mike’s is a leading expert in cross jurisdiction claims arising out of accidents abroad and has handled a range of cases for foreign insurers from France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Hungary. His role includes acting as a Client Relationship Partner advising and shaping insurers’ strategic response to the developing legal landscape.
Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel
International Arbitration
Natalie Puce
Natalie Puce
Natalie is a partner in BLM's regulatory team and represents a broad range of clients from the corporate and public sectors. She also represents both individuals and organisations on effective response to police and regulatory authorities' investigations and prosecutions. She advises on many fatal and serious accidents and provides support in the immediate aftermath, advising on the regulators' powers and investigation, commencing an investigation and advising on all stages thereafter to include options in respect of interviews under caution. Natalie advises on plea and prepares cases for court, both plea and mitigation hearings and trials. She represents clients’ interests at many inquests, including complex Article 2 inquests and also in public inquiries.Natalie has been instructed in several high profile cases including the HSE investigation of Merlin Entertainments following the incident on the Smiler roller coaster in June 2015 and she is currently involved in the Manchester Arena Inquiry. She is part of the BLM 24/7 Crisis Connection Emergency Helpline ensuring that clients have access to specialist legal advice as soon as an incident occurs. She also delivers training to clients on emergency response, inquests and what to expect during a regulatory investigation.
Neil Beresford
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Nicholas Harding
Nicholas Harding
Aviation Finance
Nicholas Thorne
Nicholas Thorne
Nicholas is a partner in the Catastrophic Injury Team and exclusively handles claims of the utmost severity on behalf of insurers, local authorities and large corporate policyholders. He regularly handles cases involving complex liability disputes of particular importance and sensitivity to both his lay and insurer client. He has a particular specialism in highways and occupiers’ liability claims, having acted for the defendants in Yates v National Trust [2014] EWHC 222 (QB); MacDonald v Myerscough College [LTL] 13/04/2016; Robinson v North Yorkshire Council (1) and Richmondshire District Council (2) [LTL 16/05/2017]; Quick v Nottinghamshire County Council [2021] 3 WLUK 786 25 March 2021; and Parker v National Trust [2021] EWHC 1589 (QB).
Nick Gianferrari
Nick Gianferrari
Nick is a partner within the regulatory team specialising in criminal investigations, PACE interviews, manslaughter prosecutions, health & safety investigations (Health & Safety Act 1974 prosecutions), road traffic offences and inquests. He advises a number of high profile corporate clients in addition to individuals and local authorities through growing direct nominations and insurer instructions. Nick maintains a rapid response service for clients faced with police intervention, onsite health and safety emergencies and coronial investigations. He recommends early engagement with clients’ following incidents, providing sound tactical advice at the outset in order to secure and protect his client’s position. Leading his own investigations to support clients and developing clear strategies; allied to established connections with counsel and experts, assembling the strongest defence teams to challenge the prosecuting agencies. His guidance is evident particularly in cases of the utmost significance and complexity, throughout each stage of the criminal/ regulatory/ coronial processes. Nick’s caseload and client base is diverse, including representing a HGV driver acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving; securing a company director a non-custodial sentence having pleaded guilty to a health and safety offence following his employee’s fatal fall from height; representing a national supermarket following a police investigation into the death of an individual detained for shoplifting at one of their stores; to advising a local authority in respect of a fatality at one of their care homes at inquest and securing no further action was taken by the CQC. He is part of the BLM 24/7 Crisis Connection Emergency Helpline, ensuring clients have immediate access to bespoke legal advice immediately an incident has occurred. He delivers tailored training across health and safety matters to corporate and local authority clients in addition to contributing articles to industry periodicals and occasional podcasts.
Nick Gibbons
Partner.
Nick Gee
Nick Gee
Partner
Nigel Lock
Nigel is a partner in the London Occupational Disease team, specialising in long tail disease claims, in particular Noise, Respiratory and Vibration cases. He heads up the Noise and vibration sub unit, and represents Insurers and reinsurers, legacy and run-off companies, corporates, and government departments advising on claims and strategy. He represents clients across all industry sectors from Transport and Energy, to Music and Entertainment.
Nigel Brook
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Nikolas Stott
Nikolas Stott
Nikolas qualified as a solicitor in 1997. For the first ten years of practice, he was a claimant solicitor. Initially he predominantly worked on RTA claims before moving to deal with employers’ and public liability claims. In 2007 he joined BLM’s casualty department in Liverpool. Since this time, Nikolas has dealt with mainly large loss. He also handles matters that have novel issues and case with potentially difficult PR issues. More recently he has been dealing with claims with a catastrophic element to them, for example, brain injury, amputations, serious spinal injuries and serious psychological injuries. He has a specific interest in cases involving chronic pain and complex regional pain syndrome. Nikolas has been heavily involved in BLM’s response to the MoJ reforms and the implementation of the Jackson Reforms. He has provided firm wide training in relation to claims handling on the new EL/PL portal.
Niya Phiri
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Nouman Bhatty
Commercial Property
Orla Scanlan
Orla Scanlan
Orla is a partner and head of BLM's national police team. She has over 25 years' experience in defending public and employers' liability claims on behalf of police forces nationally. She is instructed to deal with claims involving assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, negligence, misfeasance, public order demonstrations and deaths in custody. She has extensive experience in representing police forces in claims involving national security and public interest immunity issues.Her particular strength is in advising on technical and complex claims arising out of alleged breaches of the Human Rights Act and associated Article 2 inquests. Orla was instructed in the reported case of AAA v Chief Constable of Kent (2017) in which the Article 5 deprivation of liberty claim, was struck out in the High Court. Orla is acting for a layer insurer in a group action brought by hundreds of claimants seeking damages from South Yorkshire and West Midlands Police for misfeasance in public office over conduct of officers on the day of, and after, the Hillsborough disaster.
Padideh Dolatshahi
Padideh Dolatshahi
Healthcare
Pamela Rafiq
Pamela Rafiq
Partner
Patrick Slomski
Patrick Slomski
Aviation Liability
Paul Wainwright
Paul Wainwright
Partner
Paul Owston
Paul Owston
Works predominantly in defendant insurance litigation, specialising in defending claims against local authorities (public liability and employers’ liability) and pharmacists (clinical negligence and public liability). Notable cases include Louise Wootton v J Doctor Ltd and another [2008] CA, DJC (pregnancy, negligence of pharmacy/locum pharmacist in dispensing wrong contraceptive pills); Carol Harrison v Derby City Council [2008] CA (highways, rare defect insufficient for new investigation); Rogerson v Bolsover District Council [2019} CA (Landlord & Tenant, Defebtive Premises Act 1972, duty to inspect).
Paula Jefferson
Paula has extensive experience in advising on all issues resulting from non-recent sexual abuse allegations. Her advice extends to representation in the IICSA, establishment of voluntary compensation schemes (including on behalf of the BBC in connection with Jimmy Savile) and responding to civil claims, including with a cross-jurisdictional element. She represents many organisations including in the faith, youth, charity, education and healthcare sectors as well as insurers. Paula is head of the London office of BLM and is a member of the firm's Equality, Diversity & Inclusion steering committeeShe has been shortlisted for the Insurance Lawyer Award at the 2019 Women in Insurance Awards where she is described by the Judges as having "Great expertise and focused on supporting colleagues - must be one of the leading lawyers in her field."
Peter O'Brien
Peter O'Brien
Projects & Construction
Peter Court
Professional Indemnity / D&O
Peter Kasanda
Peter Kasanda
Managing Partner
Peter James
Peter James
Peter is a partner and heads up the safety, health and environment team in London.His 20 years’ experience is in dealing with investigations and prosecutions by the police and regulators following fatal and serious accidents at the workplace and involving members of the public.Peter represents large organisations, SMEs, directors and senior managers involved in many areas of industry as well as charities, care homes and schools and colleges.He regularly represents companies and individuals at high profile inquests.He is experienced in conference and other platform-speaking on health and safety topics, in addition to providing training for clients at internal seminars and workshops
Peter Klim
Peter Klim
Partner
Phil Carney
Phil Carney
Partner
Philip Adamis
Philip Adamis
Philip is a partner and a dual-qualified chartered loss adjuster and solicitor. He has worked in the insurance industry for over 30 years in various roles including that of insurer, insurance broker, insured and chartered loss adjuster. As such, he is able to bring a unique perspective to his work to ensure that clients receive prompt and pragmatic advice and solutions to their claims.His specialism is property work, including policy coverage, subrogated recoveries and third party property damage. Philip has considerable experience of dealing with claims across the full range of insured perils including fire, escape of water and subsidence and other geo-technical claims where he has considerable expertise in defending, and pursuing, such claims.
Rachael Lumb
Rachael Lumb
Rachael is a partner in the BLM Liverpool who works within an insurance litigation team acting for a major retailer and a London bus company dealing with large value claims often involving chronic pain issues. She works closely with a team of pre litigation casualty handlers dealing with high volume claims and also assists in the management of a larger casualty, litigation team.Rachael also has experience of attending inquests and police interviews and handling health and safety prosecutions.
Rachel Henry
Rachel Henry
Rachel is a Partner in the catastrophic team. She has specialised in personal injury civil litigation since her traineeship in 2006 and has focused on large loss and catastrophic claims since 2010.  She deals with serious spinal injuries, brain injuries, amputations and chronic pain. She is a member of the BLM NCG group which brings together our top CAT solicitors to ensure best practice and performance on a cross-jurisdictonal level.
Rachel Keenan
Rachel Keenan
Rachel is a partner with experience in defending claims in the insurance sector and advising clients in a wide range of insurance claims. She specialises in the defence of high value and complex personal injury cases arising from motor, employers’ liability and public liability claims at both the pre and post proceedings stages for a number of major insurers. She has specialist experience in credit hire litigation and manages the credit hire team in Northern Ireland. Rachel regularly advises on complex policy coverage issues including late notification and non-disclosure.
Ralph Cox
Corporate General & Commercial
Rebecca Shafto
Rebecca Shafto
Rebecca’s practice is focused on the defence of catastrophic injury claims arising out of RTA, EL and PL accidents. Her caseload consists mainly of claims concerning severe brain injury, amputations and other multiple traumatic injuries. Historically most of her cases have damages valued in excess of £1m. She has dealt with a number of cases involving children who have sustained severe brain injuries and liability has been in dispute. She has dealt with claims involving periodical payments. She has handled a number of cases involving serious injuries arising from falls from heights where alcohol was an issue. She has investigated and defended numerous complex EL claims involving a number of parties such as employers, main contractors and occupiers.
Rhona McGrath
Rhona McGrath
Rhona is a partner and joined BLM in September 2012 from Aviva insurance Europe SE where she managed the in-house legal team for 12 years. While there, she acquired extensive experience in procedural and strategic defence of personal injuries litigation. In addition to management of a diverse portfolio of litigation files, she provided support to the pre-litigation teams in both guidance as to claim value and tactical approaches towards claims settlement. In her role with Aviva she developed a keen understanding of the priorities and commercial drivers of an insurances business. Prior to Aviva, she spent 10 varied years practising in defence litigation in Sydney, Australia. As well as personal injuries litigation, she advised on a wide range of subjects including policy indemnity, product liability, medical negligence, construction law, fidelity guarantee and recovery,
Richard Gould
Richard Gould
Partner
Richard Crockford
Richard Crockford
SHE & Regulatory
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Richard Moody
Richard Moody
Richard advises on all aspects of contentious construction and construction-related professional indemnity and liability insurance, particularly for engineers, design and build contractors, architects and surveyors. He has over 25 years' experience advising on some of the most significant construction claims in the industry.  Richard heads our burgeoning global construction professional liability group which acts for multi-national consultants and their insurers throughout the world.
Rob Lawson
Rob Lawson
Aviation Liability
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson
Healthcare
Robert Hill
Robert Hill
Employment & Pensions
Ruth Graham
Ruth Graham
Ruth is a partner and head of BLM's transport unit. She handles motor, EL and PL catastrophic injury claims associated in particular with transport (bus and coach), also multi-party road traffic accidents in foreign jurisdictions She is Client Relationship Partner for one of BLM's top 10 clients. She is lead editor on Bingham and Berrymans' Personal Injury Motor Claims Cases.Ruth was a nominee Insurance Lawyer of the year 2020. Recent notable cases Court of Appeal Farley v Buckley and Evitt v Burton
Sadie Seabrook
LA, Police & Emergency Services
Sally Whalley
Sally Whalley
Sally is a partner and specialises in catastrophic injury and large loss claims and advise on a wide range of claims including road traffic accidents, employers' liability, public liability and occupiers' liability.Her experience includes defending claims involving complex liability and quantum issues involving brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputee claims, fatal accidents and serious orthopaedic injuries.She also advises on policy coverage and indemnity issues.
Sam Holden
Sam Holden
Healthcare
Sarah Woodwark
Sarah Woodwark
Sarah is a partner and Head of BLM’s national healthcare team . Her specialist area is primarily high value clinical negligence claims brought against doctors and dentists, and public and independent inquiries.  She has many years' experience in  handling clinical negligence claims and has handled a wide variety of cases over her career, including cases involving brain and spinal injury, obstetric, paediatric and cancer cases. Prior to qualifying into the legal profession Sarah was a staff nurse at York District Hospital. This invaluable experience has assisted her throughout her practice and brings a pragmatic and insightful approach to her work.
Sarah Hill
Sarah Hill
Sarah is a partner, Head of the Fraud Practice Group and Head of BLM's Birmingham Office.Having qualifed as a barrister before joining BLM in 2008 she is responsible for the strategic development of counter fraud initiatives across all business lines within BLM as well as leading the department nationally.She has 20 years of legal experience in managing fraudulent insurance clients and her areas of specific expertise includes all aspects of fraud claims, staged and contrived incidents, bogus and exaggerated claims and policyholder frauds.Sarah has acted for a number of Top 10 insurance companies and has led intelligence enquiries and co-ordinated investigations into complex fraud cases.She also advises on current regulatory legislature which assists in the combating of fraud and regularly advises clients on fraud processs and procedures and the implementation of fraud identification systems and models.
Sarah Clover
Sarah Clover
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Sharon Moohan
Sharon Moohan
Partner
Sharon MacArthur-Powell
Sharon MacArthur-Powell
Sharon specialises in the investigation and defence of high value EL and PL personal injury matters and has developed particular expertise in occupier's liability and rail industry claims. She leads an EL and PL team responding to a wide range of claims from slips and trips to catastrophic injury, as well as advising on policy and indemnity issues and recoveries from third parties.She is often instructed at an early stage to undertake the initial liability investigation and has had a number of successful liability trials. Her successes include achieving a strike out on a £1 million case following the robust defence of a relief from sanctions application; a discontinuance on a £3.6 million case in which the claimant sustained a spinal  injury falling down an escalator and a withdrawal of a £5 million claim for a claimant who slipped in a public area. She has a particular interest in chronic pain cases, which require a forensic review of the evidence and is an excellent tactition, negotiating some noteworthy and excellent result for insurers. Reported cases include the successful defence of an  £1 million RTA case in the Court of Appeal involving a pedestrian, Sam v Atkins [2005] EWCA Civ 1452 which has proved an excellent precedent for motor insurers.
Shirley Wyles
Shirley Wyles
Shirley is a partner and head of the Scottish property team. She regularly defends and pursues subrogated recoveries on behalf of her insurer, corporate and public body clients. Shirley has over 20 years' experience in dealing with insurance litigation and has expertise in fire, flooding, drainage, geo-technical and product liability cases.  She also has expertise in the provision of policy response and coverage advice.
Simon Mattison
Partner
Simon Schooling
Simon Schooling
EMNR
Simon Cradick
Simon Cradick
Simon is a partner with over 35 years' experience of defendant personal injury work.He advises on occupational disease claims, in particular asbestos disease, and higher value employers’ liability and public liability claims.He also advises on policy issues and interpretation.
Simon Morrow
Simon Morrow
Partner and joint head of BLM's occupational disease team based at its Manchester office. Specialising in claims arising from workplace exposure to dust, particularly asbestos-related claims, and managing a 20+ strong team of lawyers handling the full range of short and long tail disease claims on behalf of general insurers, individuals, corporates and legacy claims managers. Also involved in advising clients on issues arising in respect of occupational illness, regularly speaking at internal and external conferences and client training events and frequently contributing to BLM and external publications.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones
Simon Jones specialises in high value/large loss employers and public liability claims. In addition he has considerable experience of handling chronic pain cases. He is a member of a number of special interest groups, including transport and retail. In addition Simon is a member of a number of external organisations, including the Manchester Law Society and Manchester and District Medico-Legal Society. Simon manages a team of 30 lawyers in the firm’s Manchester office, and is Head of the Casualty Practice Group at BLM which includes over 200 lawyers.  Simon has handled two cases which are Court of Appeal authorities. Booth v Britannia Hotels, Court of Appeal 2002, underlined the concept that exaggeration can, in certain circumstances, be implied by reference to a settlement figure as compared to the stated value of a case. The claimant was awarded a fraction of her costs after settling for a vastly reduced sum because of recently disclosed surveillance evidence. The Appeal Court held that the judge conducting the assessment of costs should have considered the matter in the round to determine whether the costs were reasonable having regard to the amount for which the claim properly should have been made. The case of Guntripp v Cheneys Coaches involved restriction of expert evidence in circumstances where there was clear a example expert shopping, in close proximity to trial.
Simon Konsta
Simon Konsta
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Simon Jackson
Simon Jackson
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Simon Culhane
EMNR
Sinead Connolly
Sinead Connolly
Sinead is a partner and joint head of the Dublin office.She specialises in advising insurers and corporate policyholders in respect of public and employers’ liability and motor-related injuries.She has specialised in personal injury litigation for over 12 years dealing with claims of all values to include catastrophic injury.Sinead has developed excellent working relationships with experts in this field including senior counsel, medical experts, forensic accountants, actuaries and vocational rehabilitation experts. Prior to joining BLM she worked in-house for six years with one of the UK's largest insurers.
Siobhan Mullins
Siobhan Mullins
LA, Police & Emergency Services
Stephanie Atkinson
Stephanie Atkinson
Stephanie is a partner and handles both liability and quantum catastrophic injury work dealing with a range of acquired brain injury, spinal injury, amputee, fatality and cerebral palsy claims in a range of RTA, employers’ liability, public liability and clinical negligence scenarios.She has a special interest in complex medical causation issues such as pre and post-natal injuries resulting in cerebral palsy. Current clients include some of the UK’s leading insurers.  Noteable cases include:  AR & others v H (2021) –Ongoing claims regarding carbon monoxide poisoning of guests in a London hotel in 2018. One fatality claim and a TBI claim. Liability & causation issues regarding the location of the boiler and flue, servicing responsibilities and the functioning of the boiler itself. FC & others v K (2019) - The claim from multiple parties resulted from a significant motorway accident involving a family with two young children.  There were multiple reinsurers involved from across Europe. The crossover of injuries for the whole family made these claims more complex; one parent with a subtle brain injury and the other significant orthopaedic injuries; a 7 year old with a severe TBI and a younger child with psychological issues.  Also dealing with three fatalities and a psychological injury claim involving French nationals from another vehicle involved in the same accident.  The pleaded child TBI claim was in excess of £20million and settled at JSM in 2019.  In both the parents’ claims settlement was reached at a JSM before the CCMC stage through the cooperative relationship between BLM and the claimant’s solicitor, avoiding the need for counsel at the JSM.  ABC (2016) - the claimant was delivered prematurely following an RTA in which the mother was injured. Following premature birth, the hospital failed to recognise and treat kernicterus, resulting in cerebral palsy. The case involved complex quantum arguments as well as a Part 20 clinical negligence claim against the NHS in relation to causation apportionment. The claim was settled at a JSM and the Part 20 claim was resolved with the NHS accepting an offer out of time for 75% liability. Stephanie was also involved in drafting the PPO.
Stephen Hooper
Stephen Hooper
Healthcare
Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller
Employment & Pensions
Stephen Lintott
Stephen is a partner head of the commercial real estate team at BLM. He carries out a wide range of property work, and has a particular interest in advising developers on the acquisition, funding, development, sale and letting of residential, commercial and mixed use developments. He also has substantial experience in advising on the sale of contaminated land for redevelopment and property transactions for charities.During his career he has advised private, public and third sector clients, including local, national and international companies, independent and state schools and social housing providers.
Steve Lynch
Partner
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon
Projects & Construction
Stuart Evans
Stuart Evans
Partner and Head of Commercial Litigation, London
Stuart Hardy
Stuart Hardy
Specialises in utmost severity injury claims, including amputation, brain and spinal injuries, arising out of road traffic, EL and PL accidents. Main clients are Motor Insurers Bureau and Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Stuart Furniss
Stuart Furniss
Stuart is a partner and heads the motor, large loss and catastrophic injuries teams in Liverpool. He specialises in catastrophic injury cases arising from employers’ liability, public liability and motor claims involving complex liability issues, head injuries, amputation, serious orthopaedic injuries and other claims with a high level of damages and is one of a small number of lawyers appointd to handle claims of the highest value and complexity by a number of large insurer clients. He is currently dealing with a number of traumatic brain injury and serious spinal injury claims valued in excess of £10m.Stuart also leads BLM's Care, Statutory Funding and Rehabilitation Subject Matter Group, together with a number of our specialists which focuses on trends and developments in this area.Stuart takes a commercial and pragmatic approach when handling such claims, working closely with both the client and claimant’s solicitors. He regularly writes articles and provides seminars and training on various topics within his areas of expertise.He also contributed to and co-edited the 15th edition of Bingham and Berrymans’ Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases.
Tabitta van Nouhuys
Tabitta van Nouhuys
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Tanya Cross
Tanya Cross
Partner; specialises in occupational disease work covering all fields; also undertakes EL/PL work; receives instructions from both insurers and major insured clients.
Tanya Gordon
Tanya Gordon
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Tara McSorley
Tara McSorley
Tara is a partner and works on fraud cases, with an expertise in first and third party fraud and recovery. She has extensive experience of fraud rings, staged accidents, phantom passengers and exaggerated personal injury claims. She also advises on DPA legislation and the tort of deceit. Tara participates in regular claims surgeries for insurer teams and delivers training on combatting fraud together with the current patterns and trends in fraud claims. She plays an active role in the Insurance Fraud Investigators Group and has received National Intelligence Model (NIM) training as well as instruction on investigative and intelligence gathering.
Tara Smith
Tara Smith
EMNR
Tenda Msinjili
Tenda Msinjili
Partner
Tessa Leonard
Tessa Leonard
Tessa is a partner and specialises in real estate and development. She has worked with national and entrepreneurial  developers, local authorities, government agencies and investors to facilitate the delivery of new commercial accommodation and dwellings, particularly on brownfield sites. Tessa worked for a number of years in-house at a unitary authority with responsibility for legal aspects of regeneration and infrastructure projects. She understands the constraints and challenges which public bodies have to deal with and is confident in devising structures which allow public-private enterprise. She can provide a comprehensive legal service for developers and investors throughout the life of projects, dealing with site assembly, site set up, forward funding, lettings, profit sharing arrangements and sales.
Thomas van der Wijngaart
Thomas van der Wijngaart
Aviation Liability
Tim Large
Tim Large
Partner specializing in complex and high-value claims arising primarily out of road traffic accident, with particular experience of dealing with cases resulting in chronic pain. Reported cases include Drinkall v Whitwood and Hiscocks v Dietrich.
Tim Pipe
Tim Pipe
Tim is a partner in the Banking and Finance group. He has considerable experience in advising lenders, borrowers, international financial institutions and trading companies in relation to financings in the energy sector (with particular focus on upstream oil and gas businesses), and in emerging markets (particularly the Russian Federation/CIS and Nigeria). Tim has worked on a wide range of financings, in particular reserve-based lending facilities, prepayment facilities, pre-export finance facilities, as well as more traditional corporate lending transactions. Tim has worked on financings for a wide range of borrowers, with recent transactions involving distressed national and independent oil companies in Africa, acquisition-focused independent exploration companies in Brazil and North Sea explorers.
Tim Crockford
Tim Crockford
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Toby Scott
Toby Scott
Disease
Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Tom Tippett
Tom Tippett
Corporate General & Commercial
Tom White
Tom White
Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes
Toni Ashby
Toni Ashby
Disease
Trish Taylor
Trish Taylor
Trish is a partner who now works with BLM’s Compliance Officer for legal practice, including investigation of breaches and preparation of reports. Having previously specialised in road traffic accident work, case management development and provision of management information to major insurer clients Trish had a keen interest in compliance and the SRA’s new approach under OFR so transferred teams in 2014 Trish supports and advises the business on legal regulatory risk and compliance issues and obligations relating to the Solicitors Code of Conduct. Working as part of BLM’s risk and compliance team she helps co-ordinate the firm’s compliance agenda and central risk reporting framework for claims, complaints incidents and breaches. She liaises with BLM’s Learning and Development and Knowledge Management teams to ensure delivery of a compliance training programme for the business and that the team’s technical guidance output is easily accessible and shared successfully across the firm.
Val Jones
Val Jones
Partner; specialises in policy coverage and liability aspects of RTA, public and employers’ liability. Val is nominated nationwide to handle catastrophic injury claims for major insurers. She is the CRP partner for one of the firm’s top 4 clients.
Val Hughes
Val Hughes
Head of the occupational disease unit in Birmingham.  She has been dealing with disease claims for the past 30 years including all types of occupational diseases including asbestos-related; VWF; deafness; RSI; asthma; stress. Val also led the Defence team in a Group Litigation Action arising in the waste water industry which resulted in injury from Hydrogen Sulphide exposure. More recently she was involved in claims arising in the green waste industry from exposure to aspergillus fumigatus spores.  Val has particular expertise dealing with private corporate clients and the associated corporate issues and indemnities where claims against old Companies are pursued.
Vanessa Splaine
Healthcare
Vanessa Latham
  Vanessa is a partner specialising in employment law and defendant occupational disease claims with a particular interest in stress, bullying, harassment and discrimination cases. She frequently advises insurers on overlapping jurisdiction and policy issues arising out of such claims and advises on a broad range of employment issues.Vanessa also advises on public liability discrimination claims relating to the provision of goods and services. She acted for the defendant in Majrowski v Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, which was subject to an appeal to the House of Lords on the issue of whether an employer could be vicariously liable under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
Verinder Bedi
Verinder Bedi
Verinder is a partner and technical lead of the Birmingham Motor Team. In recent years, he has focused his practise on dealing with civil and criminal motor claims specializing in high value claims, credit hire and policy indemnity for a variety of insurer and corporate companies. He deals with large value multi track civil personal injury claims together with Magistrates Court offences. He often deals with six figure claims for credit hire, provides advices on a variety of credit hire related issues and regularly provide industry wide guidance and feedback. He provides advice on the cross-over between motor insurance policies and cases involving dual insurance issues. He has a speciality in dealing with RTA/Article 75/MIB claims.
Vicente Bañuelos Rizo
Vicente Bañuelos Rizo
With over 23 years' of experience in the areas of commercial litigation & arbitration, Vicente has handled complex litigations in different sectors (banking, maritime, insurance, bankruptcy) and he has been counsel, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and president of Arbitral Tribunals, in more than thirty  arbitrations (ICC, ICDR, CAM and CANACO). Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at a boutique litigation firm in Mexico City specialising in complex litigation.
Vicky Mallard
Vicky Mallard
Partner.
Victoria Garvey
Victoria Garvey
Partner
Vikki Melville
Vikki Melville
Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss
Vivienne Williams
Vivienne Williams
Vivienne has been a solicitor for over 30 years. She trained at BLM and is now the firm’s Managing Partner having held a number of senior management positions within the firm.As Managing Partner, in addition to being responsible for putting into action the strategy set by the Executive Board and ensuring the smooth running of the firm’s service to clients, internal operations and financial wellbeing, she is focused on developing solutions for clients beyond legal advice.Vivienne introduced a data analytics team to BLM and played a lead role in launching the firm’s BLM Innovations suite of tools.The well-being of all colleagues at BLM is an important part of her role. She founded the firm’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee and BLM’s employee forum, The Voice of BLM.
Will Trustram
Will Trustram
EMNR