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05 December 2016
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Fletchers Solicitors

Firm make trio of appointments

Fletchers Solicitors has bolstered its dedicated clinical negligence team with the appointment of three senior solicitors.

Lynne Ainsworth, Nina Sahu and Christian Beadell have joined Fletchers as senior solicitors within in the clinical negligence department.

Lynne will be a supervisor within the firm’s specialist clinical negligence serious injury team, which deals with high-value, catastrophic injury cases. Lynne brings with her over 15 years’ experience. She joins from Slater and Gordon where she was a senior associate in clinical negligence for the past 10 years.

Nina, who is on the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel, also joins from Slater and Gordon, with over 15 years’ experience in dealing with clinical negligence claims. In her new role, Nina will be working in a team specialising in the progression of litigated cases.

Christian has over 20 years’ legal experience and is currently a panel solicitor in the Group B Step Support Group, a charity dedicated to eradicating group B Strep infections in babies. He has extensive experience in group action cases and is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). At Fletchers, Christian will be supervising a team within the clinical negligence department. 

CEO Ed Fletcher said the appointments were all part of ensuring that Fletchers meets its company objectives. He said: “Investment in the team is indicative of our commitment to grow Fletchers in line with our vision of becoming a top 100 Law Firm by 2018. The appointments of even more high-quality talent will ensure we can continue to provide best-in-class consultancy to our clients in this complex are of personal injury.”

Georgia Briscoe, head of clinical negligence, said: “The trio’s extensive experience and wealth of clinical negligence knowledge will make them highly valuable members of our team and we’re very pleased for them to be coming on board.”

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