Ben Townsend > Stewarts Law LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
Stewarts Law LLP Offices
9 BOND COURT
LEEDS
LS1 2JZ
England
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Ben Townsend
Work Department
Position
Partner and Head of Personal Injury Leeds.
Ben specialises in brain and spinal cord injury claims. He deals with a lot of challenging cases, and is very on the ball and very involved in the wider picture.’
Ben advises on high-value personal injury claims, particularly brain and spinal cord injuries, including claims with an international element. He has experience of equestrian cases, as well as burn and amputation injuries.
Ben has acted in many brain and spinal cord injury claims, including accidents abroad. He has supervised fee earners conducting many more. His highlights include achieving multimillion pound settlements resulting from a range of types of accidents, including road traffic accidents and accidents at work.
Career
Ben previously worked for Armstrong Foulkes in Middlesbrough before joining Stewarts in 2004. He was made an associate in 2005 and a partner in 2006.
Ben was named ‘Partner of the Year’ at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2021, at which it was said he “creates a progressive atmosphere for others to thrive in”.
Memberships
Ben is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. He is a founding assessor for their brain and spinal cord injury panels.
Personal
Ben enjoys playing guitar in his band, Legacy. He also enjoys reading (including Greg Bear and Clive Barker) and spending time with his triplets.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Leading partners)Stewarts Law LLP is differentiated by its ability to offer clients representation by catastrophic injury specialists working smaller caseloads to provide bespoke services, primarily in relation to serious spinal and brain injuries, amputations, and other complex mandates. The Leeds team is headed up by Daniel Herman, who has an established track record in high-value spinal and brain injury claims. Ben Townsend is active on matters pertaining to severe brain injury, and has worked on a number of cases involving vehicle crashes overseas. Warren Maxwell focuses on issues relating to employers’ and occupiers’ liability, in addition to his specialism in acting on behalf of injured military personnel.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant Yorkshire and the Humber > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant