Claire Collins
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant
Band 3
About
Provided by Claire Collins
Career
Claire is a Partner at Clyde and Co in the Legal 500 Tier 1 London catastrophic injury team. She has been named as a “Leading Individual” in Legal 500 every year since 2018. She is described as a “ tough and determined litigator who brooks no nonsense en-route to getting a just outcome for her client” and that “ she has mastered the balancing act of supervising her team whilst retaining an in-depth knowledge of her files. She provides excellent balanced advice”.
Claire is also a named Partner in Chambers and Partners 2022 where she is praised for engaging “ on a collaborative level and is clearly very good at what she does” .
She deals with a wide range of defendant personal injury claims and has over 25 years’ experience dealing with large and complex claims, to include spinal, brain injury and amputation cases. Claire has a strong technical background with many years’ experience dealing with high value, high profile personal injury claims for many leading insurers who advocate her appointment with their policyholders.
Claire has a good reputation in the insurance market as being technically very able and due to her recognition in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners insurers trust her to work on their largest files.
Claire currently mentors individual claims controllers at various insurers in their personal, technical and professional development.