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Lesley Herbertson

Lesley Herbertson

Hugh James, North West

Work Department

Clinical negligence

Position

Partner

Career

Lesley is a Partner at Hugh James and a leading medical negligence solicitor with over 30 years’ experience in dealing with catastrophic and serious injury medical negligence cases.

She was a Partner and the Head of the Medical Negligence Department at Alexander Harris, which merged with Irwin Mitchell in 2005. Lesley joined Potter Rees Dolan in 2010 and became a Partner there in 2017. She is currently a Partner and senior member of the Medical Negligence team in the Manchester office of Hugh James.

Memberships

AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel; Law Society Clinical Negligence Accredited. Lesley is also recognised by the prestigious Legal 500 and Chambers guides to the legal profession.

Education

University of Cambridge MA Law 2:1 Honours (1984-1987) College of Law Chester 1st Class Honours (1987-1988)

Mentions

Insurance • North West

Clinical negligence: claimant

Leading partner