Higgs LLP

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Andy Shaw

Higgs LLP, West Midlands

Work Department

Personal injury.

Career

Occupational disease claims technician at Zurich from 1998-2001. Trained Higgs LLP 2001; qualified 2003; partner 2009. Regional chairman of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society 2006 to 2012; member of the Management Committee of the Occupational and Environmental Disease Association 2005 to 2007. Directorships: treasurer of Motor Accident Solicitors Society 2012 to date; member of the Law Society Personal Injury Group.

Memberships

Association of Personal injury Lawyers; Birmingham Medico-Legal Society. Birmingham Medico-Legal Society Birmingham Law Society Personal Injury Group Law Society PI Panel Member Headway Solicitors List Spinal Injury Association The Brain Injury Group

Position

As Head of the firm's Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence teams, Andy has over 20 years' experience of dealing with personal injury and disease litigation claims. He specialises in high value complex cases including brain injury, spinal injury, fatal accident and industrial disease. He was a member of the management committee of the Occupational and Environmental Disease Association from 2005 to 2007, regional chairman for the Midlands region of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society from 2006 until 2012 and has been treasurer of the society since 2012. He is also a member of the Birmingham Medico-Legal Society, The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, a committee member of The Birmingham Law Society Personal Injury Group and is an accredited member of the Law Society Personal Injury panel. Andy is 100% committed to his clients and considered by market commentators as having an excellent knowledge of serious injuries and is very approachable.

Education

Stourbridge College (1995, three A-levels); Wolverhampton (1998, LLB Hons Law, 2.1); Wolverhampton School of Law (2001, Legal Practice Course, Distinction. Awarded David Baxter Prize).

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