Paul Tapner > Slater and Gordon > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
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9 Hills Road
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1GE
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Paul Tapner
Work Department
Personal Injury
Position
Paul is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon’s offices in Cambridge and Manchester, and specialises in in serious injury cases including spinal injuries, head injuries, amputation injuries and fatal injury claims. Paul is part of a high quality team of serious injury solicitors who fight complex, difficult cases that most other lawyers wouldn’t touch. Paul excels in creative thinking, always looking to push the boundaries of what can and can’t be claimed. Paul gives clear and incisive second opinions on cases handled by other lawyers.
Career
Paul studied at Cambridge University before joining Taylor Vinters Solicitors in 1985. He became a principal lawyer with Slater and Gordon in 2013.
Memberships
Paul and the team is one of a very few teams nationally to be accredited as specialist solicitors by both the Spinal Injuries Association and Headway, the brain injury association. Paul is also part of a team who are members of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and five members of The Law Society’s specialist accreditation panel for personal injury work.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
(Hall of Fame)The serious and specialist personal injury Slater and Gordon has a national focus and is led from London by Tracey Benson, but it has a deep bench of talent in Cambridge, which is a central hub for its complex and high-value work. Paul Tapner
(who ‘always goes above and beyond‘), Angela Beric (who’ has an encyclopaedic knowledge of her cases‘), and Richard Gaffney (who is ‘very thorough in chasing down points of detail‘) are the standout partners. Senior associate Crystal Eaton also plays a key role in the firm’s key catastrophic injury matters. Tapner recently settled a £15m claim for a catastrophic brain injury during a rugby match.