Irwin Mitchell's clinical negligence offering in the South East is led by Southampton head Justine Spencer, who specialises in highly complex obstetric and neonatal neurological injuries, working alongside Bristol practice head Julie Lewis, who focuses her practice on birth, neonatal and other brain injury claims. Senior associate Rebecca Brown handles the full suite of medical negligence issues, including spinal injury, general surgical negligence, sepsis, amputations and oncology. Obstetric cases leading to cerebral palsy is a core focus of fellow senior associate Kate Easy.

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‘Our experience with Irwin Mitchell's team, led by Rebecca Brown, was extremely positive. We, as clients, were a family with a personal injury that impacted our daughter. Rebecca was the key strength in our case. Rebecca's team understood our case, and she was very organised, and always on time with notifications, reminders and appointments. We always felt that we had enough time to review and comment on the documents, and that we were well taken care of.’
‘Rebecca Brown was my lead lawyer. She was excellent in both her professional ability but also her personality/client interface skills.'
‘Irwin Mitchell continually demonstrates a highly impressive level of competency. Everyone in Irwin Mitchell treats you with the utmost respect and dignity.’
‘Justine Spencer has an extreme level of expertise and sophistication. She effortlessly adjusts her explanations as appropriate to make you feel very heard, understood and in control.
'Kate Easy is very professional and compassionate, which makes a vast difference when talking about such personal matters.’
‘Rebecca Brown is a particularly outstanding senior associate who does a brilliant job in difficult and complex cases .’
‘Rebecca Brown is an outstanding lawyer. Clever, hard working and fearless. Really goes the extra mile for her clients. A brilliant person to have in your corner.’
‘Justine Spencer sets the tone for the team. She is an excellent solicitor and is totally committed to her clients. She is intelligent, enthusiastic and able. Despite her responsibilities as head of the team, she has a large and loyal client following.'