Lunchtime Meeting - 12.45pm - Speaker Emma Broomfield

Ian Glenister's speaker today is Emma Broomfield an Associate Solicitor in the Clinical/Medical Negligence Team from Lanyon Bowdler's Shrewsbury office.

The Lanyon Bowdler website gives the following profile of Emma.

Emma is an experienced associate solicitor with over 10 years specialist experience in clinical negligence and personal injury litigation. She qualified as a solicitor in 1991 after gaining her law degree from Cambridge University in 1988 and joined Lanyon Bowdler’s clinical negligence department in 2003.

Emma is a member of the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel and a Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). She has wide ranging experience having acted for Claimants with cerebral palsy, catastrophic brain injury, spinal injury, cancer and amputees as well as on a wide range of cases involving misdiagnosis, inadequate treatment and surgical error. She also has experience of handling fatal claims and advising on all aspects of Inquests.

Through her work for clients who have sustained serious injury as a result of medical negligence, Emma has assisted clients in obtaining suitable accommodation and establishing care packages with case management input, securing substantial interim payments to fund these when needed.

Emma is recognised in the 2015 edition of Chambers UK as an 'Associate to watch' and it states "Emma Broomfield is dealing with a large portion of spinal and neurological injuries. Market sources comment on her thorough and investigative nature, with one adding that she has a 'cerebral edge'."

We should be in for a challenging talk today.