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Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant - Scotland
What the Team is Known For
Ledingham Chalmers has a leading personal injury team in Aberdeen and in its other offices located throughout Scotland. It handles a wide variety of matters, including disease, employers' and public liability, property damage and RTA claims. It is also noted for extensive expertise in stress at work cases, and is experienced in catastrophic and fraudulent cases, frequently representing high-profile insurers. The Edinburgh office offers a specialist service, capable of dealing with liability and subrogation claims.
Strengths
I appreciate the collaborative, pragmatic discussions with Ledingham Chalmers and I find their responsiveness to be very good.
There is a good and stable knowledge base within the firm, ensuring up-to-date case law knowledge and relevant reporting and ability to provide recommendations.
The Ledingham Chalmers team are extremely knowledgeable and able to deal with very complex legal claims easily.
Notable practitioners
Graeme Edward handles big-ticket catastrophic and fatal accident claims, particularly those relating to RTAs, as well as having experience advising on historic abuse matters.
Victoria Leslie represents clients in public and employers' liability matters involving industrial disease, psychological injury and catastrophic injury.
Sarah Morris acts for insurers and local authorities on employers' and public liability claims.
Sarah is absolutely unflappable and incredibly organised.
She is very pragmatic, collaborative and keeps us updated.
Sarah is extremely good at all aspects of the work she does; she is very experienced, knowledgeable and provides excellent client service.