A Practice Based on Professional Expertise and Personal Experience

Levy & McRae’s Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team are incorporated in L&M MediLaw. Our team is comprised of experts with extensive experience, including first-hand personal experience as individuals in need of assistance with medical negligence and personal injury matters.

L&M MediLaw was launched in February 2022, founded by Elizabeth Rose as a dedicated division of Levy & McRae.  Elizabeth is a medical negligence lawyer with direct experience as a client; her daughter was born with a brain injury caused by medical negligence Elizabeth’s story. This is a personal and professional mission for Elizabeth to improve the lives of disabled people and their access to justice – and disrupt the medical negligence market. L&M MediLaw seeks to remove trauma, providing individual care and attention to vulnerable clients.  It is about a genuinely more compassionate and empathetic approach to law, backed with first-hand experience and legal specialism.

The team’s Nadine Montgomery Allam also has direct personal experience of medical negligence matters. She was the Pursuer in the resultant 2015 landmark medical negligence case where a unanimous Supreme Court decision in London changed the UK law with respect to Informed Consent. Nadine’s son was born with cerebral palsy and left-sided Erbs Palsy, following a 12-minute delay to his birth due to shoulder dystocia, a severe type of obstructed labour during childbirth. All seven Supreme Court Justices found her Obstetric consultant to be negligent after failing to provide appropriate information regarding options and risks with respect to the mode of delivery of her baby.

As a firm, we have seen at first-hand how damaging the legal process can be for clients and their families, who are often grieving deeply for the loss of a loved one or because of life-changing injuries, either to themselves or to a loved one.  That is why we are determined that legal remedies should be accompanied by the right support, seeking to alleviate the distress and pain that our clients are experiencing – and ultimately providing them with the knowledge that they have done everything that they could possibly do to pursue their case for themselves and for their families.

The L&M MediLaw ethos is based on providing a compassionate and empathetic service – all backed up by first-hand experience and legal specialism. We are focused on removing trauma and giving individual care and attention to vulnerable clients.  To that end, we have carefully configured our services to meet clients’ emotional needs, providing high-quality bespoke advice in personal injury and medical negligence matters. Unlike many of our competitors, we do not commoditise our advice as we recognise that each client and each case is different

Suzanne Williams heads up our Personal Injury team.  Suzanne is a Law Society accredited Personal Injury specialist, APIL accredited Senior Litigator and Brain Injury Specialist and Trauma-Informed lawyer.  She leads a team that deals with a wide range of cases that involve fatal accidents, severe brain injury and spinal cord injury – from workplace and road traffic accidents to medical negligence. As a firm, we deal with some of the most complex catastrophic injury claims, including cases arising out of major incidents and disasters, such as the Lockerbie air disaster and Piper Alpha. We are currently acting in litigation arising out of the Clutha Vaults helicopter crash.

In all medical negligence and personal injury cases, we provide a meeting and initial advice to understand our client’s position and how we can help them not just in financial terms but also in terms of the trauma-informed approach that we bring to our work.  We aim from the outset to go far beyond simply giving them a clear assessment of their claim and their prospects of success: we look for how we can support them emotionally and practically throughout the legal process and give them ‘closure’ following traumatic and often life-changing events. An important part of our approach is ensuring that people are protected from having to re-live and re-tell their story time after time.  We seek to make the legal process as human as it can be.