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Personal Injury - North Eastern (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Howard Elgot is a senior junior known for his superb grasp of claims involving serious spinal and brain injuries. He often acts in complex, high-value paralysis cases, representing both claimants and defendants. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences on personal injury law. He is experienced appearing before the House of Lords, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.
Strengths
Howard Elgot is really smart and does good work.
Clinical Negligence - North Eastern (Bar)
Individual Editorial
Howard Elgot assists with long-running and typically high-value claims on behalf of both claimants and defendants. He has demonstrated expertise in brain injuries including cerebral palsy, as well as delayed diagnosis and breach of duty claims resulting in serious injury.
Strengths
He is great at finding avenues I might not have considered and he has a really great perspective on cases.
Howard is our first choice for senior counsel in high value clinical negligence cases. He gets what's required out of experts, hones in on the important issues, is approachable, and is effective.
He is extremely experienced with a wealth of knowledge. He is very useful.