Practitioners at Clarke Willmott LLP ‘strike the perfect balance of professionalism with personal care and understanding’ in their approach to the gamut of clinical negligence work. Marguarita Tyne heads up the department ’with confidence, passion and understanding’, while Kerry Fifield acts as team manager and ‘works tirelessly for her clients’. In terms of specialisms, Tyne leads on complex adult injury cases, including brain, spinal and amputation, and Fifield focuses on high-value birth injury and paediatric brain injury claims. The firm also fields a broad bench of more junior specialists, including Vanessa Harris, who was recently promoted to senior associate.
Testimonials
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- 'A highly experienced and professional team who strike the perfect balance of professionalism with personal care and understanding.'
- 'Kerry Fifield is hard-working, proactive and clearly cares about her clients. She managed a high-value CP case and did an excellent job.'
- 'Marguarita Tyne is an excellent solicitor, who takes real care with her cases, gives her clients a fantastic service and gets excellent results. She really understands what is important to clients and supports them fully through complex claims.'
- 'Great interpersonal and communication skills, patience and a clear, detailed and analytical approach to issues.'
- 'Marguarita Tyne leads the team with confidence, passion and understanding, she is technically outstanding, with a brilliant understanding of the most complex of cases. Kerry Fifield works tirelessly for her clients - her technical knowledge, ability to fight for the very best for her clients and great communication are to be admired.'
- 'Isabel Harper provides an excellent level of service, always going that extra mile for her clients, she deals with complex matters with skill and sensitivity, and can always be relied upon to get the very best results for her clients and team.'
- 'James Edmondson deals with the most complex and difficult matters with skill and effectiveness on every occasion, he is a brilliant communicator, first-class tactician and commercially savvy. Vanessa Harris is an extremely knowledgeable and affective clinical negligence practitioner, she has first-class communication skills and her client care is brilliant, technically spot on and a great negotiator too.'
- 'Really knowledgeable and efficient - brilliant to work with and instil confidence in what is a difficult and emotive legal field.'
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Marguarita Tyne, Kerry Fifield