Fieldfisher's 'top notch' clinical negligence team again ranked Band 1 by Chambers

Particularly noted as 'highly regarded for its extensive expertise in obstetric and birth injury claims', the clinical negligence team has 10 ranked lawyers, with team leader Iona Meeres-Young moving up to Band 2.

Partner Arti Shah also moved up the rankings to Band 4 from Up and Coming. 

Paul McNeil remains a Star Individual with Samantha Critchley and Kate Rohde again listed Band 1.

Jonathan Zimmern and Mark Bowman remain Band 3, Jane Weakley as Band 4, with Caron Heyes and new joiner Punam Sood as 'Star Associates'. Both were recently promoted to Director. 

Accolades for the team:

"First class, with an exceptional degree of empathy and understanding."

"Paul McNeil is head and shoulders above others in the field. He's highly intelligent and very forensically able."

"[Iona's] a very quietly effective operator. She's ahead of others by two steps and is really good."

"Sam is a class act. She knows her cases in and out, always goes the extra mile, and is a totally safe pair of hands even for the most complex and high-value matters."

"Kate is extremely experienced. She's fantastic. She has really good judgement and bags of experience."

"Mark Bowman really knows his stuff."

"[Jonathan's] just a class act. He's very thorough, very engaged on the expert evidence side of things and understands the case properly. He produces first-rate results."

"Arti is so friendly and understanding, yet professional and sincere. It always feels like she's fighting our cause and believes in us."

"[Jane is] highly experienced with clear insight into complex clinical issues. She has a strong client focus too."

"[Caron] works tenaciously, and is sympathetic and good at managing people's expectations. She's good at guiding people to the result they want."