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Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith

Work Department

Aviation

Position

Senior Associate

Rebecca is a highly experienced aviation lawyer, specialising in complex high-value, catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims from both a domestic and international perspective, including the application of the Montreal Convention. She has been involved in a number of large group action claims in the USA and Nigeria, which include the recent Boeing tragedy. She brings a pragmatic approach borne of dealing with complex cases involving jurisdictional and applicable law issues.

Rebecca has successfully represented clients in all the most recent noteworthy aviation disasters including the Germanwings, Shoreham Air Show and Boeing Ethiopian airlines tragedies.

Career

Prior to joining Stewarts in January 2020, Rebecca worked at Irwin Mitchell as a senior associate heading up their London office aviation team. Rebecca’s previous roles were with Leigh Day as a senior solicitor in their catastrophic brain/spinal injury team, and prior to that she was a partner at Amery Parkes working in the same field.

Memberships

Rebecca is a member of:

PEOPIL APIL American Association of Justice (AAJ)

Personal

Rebecca’s interests include water and snow skiing. She enjoys travel, with adventure very much on her agenda.