Jill Greenfield heads the brain injury
and spinal injury units. She also deals
with other catastrophic
injuries, including serious orthopaedic injury, fatalities and psychiatric
injuries.
Jill is on the recommended list for
both Headway (the brain injury
association) and the SIA (Spinal Injuries Association).
She is also a trustee for Headway North London.
Not only is Jill committed to
ensuring that the client recovers a good settlement, but also that
effective rehabilitation is provided. Her cases are complex and
each worth several million pounds. They arise mainly, but not
exclusively, as a consequence of accidents
at work or road traffic accidents.
She has a strong international element
to her practice, currently covering work in Australia, Brazil,
Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Denmark, America and Shanghai. Many of
Jills clients are based outside the UK.
Jill has dealt with some rather
unique and unusual cases such as a successful civil suit for rape,
(Amanda
Lawson v Christopher Dawes) one of only a handful ever
pursued to a full trial and resulting in the highest ever award for
a rape victim for psychiatric injury and the first case involving
E Coli 0157 to be taken before the UK
Courts.
Jill is committed to working for
those injured and has been involved in
a successful four year campaign to introduce a financial support
scheme for British victims of terrorist activites abroad. In
October 2009 she
obtained judgment of over £1 million in compensation from the
Turkish Government for a family involved in the terrorist
bombing in there in 2005. The Turkish Government are
currently appealing this award.
"Jill Greenfield heads up the
neurological trauma facet of the workload and elicits praise for
her efficient management of substantial
claims." (Chambers 2010)
The ‘approachable’ and ‘tremendously supportive’ Jill
Greenfield is ‘exceptional’ (The Legal 500, 2009)
Previous listings in
the legal directories also describe Jill as being
'talented' and 'untiring' and is credited with
having “raised the firm's profile in brain and spinal
injuries..." (The Legal 500, 2007). She was also described as
being ‘committed and efficient’ (Legal 500, 2006).
Jill has had articles published in
the Lawyer. She speaks at the BISWG annual legal
conference. Jill has also made a number of television appearances
and has spoken on Trevor McDonald’s, “Tonight” and Fiona
Bruce’s “Real Lives”, as well as other appearances on Sky
News, BBC News and ITV.
Jill's work includes: