Clive Thomas
UK Guide 2025
Eminent Practitioners : Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant
Eminent Practitioners
About
Provided by Clive Thomas
Practice Areas
Managing Director and Head of Personal Injury Team and an experienced employment lawyer.
As a personal injury lawyer he deals with complex high value matters, particularly employers liability (mainly through Trade Union clients) and brain injury and fatal accident cases.
In his employment practice he advises Trade Union clients and deals with executive severance packages.
Career
A solicitor at Watkins and Gunn since he qualified in 1991 and now Managing Director. Won the Leading Wales Award for Leadership in the Private Sector 2011. He is a Past President of the Monmouthshire Incorporated Law Society, Cardiff & District Law Society the Association of South Western Law Societies.
Professional Memberships
Clive is a member of the Law Society’s Wales Committee and Law Management Committee. He chairs the Cardiff & District Law Society Law Tech Group. He is a Member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel and a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and a member of the Swansea University Legal Innovation Lab Advisory Board.
Personal
Married and lives in Barry, enjoys rugby, golf and sailing. Clive is a member of the Wales Committee of Wooden Spoon, the Children’s Charity of Rugby, and a Business Ambassador for City Hospice.
Chambers Review
UK
Clive Thomas has particular experience acting on serious and fatal RTA claims. He has handled matters with complex witness situations, including cases which have none or those who reside outside the UK.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Clive has great rapport with his clients, the issues are all covered, and he's good negotiating with the other side."
"Clive has a wealth of knowledge in a range of civil matters. We are incredibly fortunate to have him in our corner."
"Clive has great rapport with his clients, the issues are all covered, and he's good negotiating with the other side."
"Clive has a wealth of knowledge in a range of civil matters. We are incredibly fortunate to have him in our corner."