Lara Bennett > Slater and Gordon > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
HAYWOOD HOUSE NORTH
DUMFRIES PLACE
CARDIFF
CF10 3GA
United Kingdom
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Lara Bennett
Work Department
Clinical Negligence
Position
Senior associate, Lara Bennett is based in the firm’s Cardiff office where she takes on a supportive and supervisory role with team members, and plays a significant part in building strong relationships for business development.
Lara advises clients on a wide range of complex clinical negligence claims, including birth injuries, anaesthetic injury, nerve damage, oncology and gynaecology. She also handles claims involving delay or failure to correctly diagnose, hospital and GP negligence claims, and a number of orthopaedic claims including hip and knee replacement surgery.
Renowned for her attention to detail and empathy, Lara is meticulous in ensuring the very best results for her clients. She has handled a number of class actions, delivering excellent results and has a particular interest in birth injury claims, as well as fatal accident and amputation claims.
The past year has seen Lara complete her application for Law Society accreditation and continue to play a major role in undertaking settlement meetings with NHS Resolution to assist in bringing claims to a timely settlement.
Memberships
Lara is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx).
She is also a member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) and AvMA (Action Against Medical Accidents).
Lawyer Rankings
Wales > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Led by the ‘outstanding’ Yvonne Agnew , the ‘very diligent, thoughtful and hardworking’ team at Slater and Gordon provides ‘professional and efficient’ advice to privately and publicly-funded clients across an eclectic mix of often high-value and complex cases, where they also benefit from access to complementary services including Court of Protection and trusts services, if required. Combining ‘a keen desire to promote her clients’ interests with an excellent judgement of litigation risk and difficulty’, senior associate Lara Bennett provides a pragmatic and ‘very clear-sighted assessment of the likely outcome’, ensuring that claimants are well very effectively represented in often complex cases involving, inter alia, birth injuries, anaesthetic injury, nerve damage, oncology and gynaecology. Other key practitioners include the ‘exceptional’ Kelly Lloyd-Davies and Megan Cavanagh, who has ‘sound commercial sense and never loses sight of the bigger picture’.