Commitment is at the heart of everything I do; from providing clear advice about the prospects of a claim to arranging the ultimate support during rehabilitation, right through to ensuring my clients achieve the best possible outcomes when it comes to settlements.
Get to Know Laura
Laura specialises in serious and catastrophic personal injury claims, often representing clients who have experienced an amputation or a significant brain injury in an accident.
Laura has worked as a Chartered Legal Executive for almost two decades and joined Hudgell Solicitors in 2022 where she works solely on high-value serious injury cases and is highly skilled in negotiation and civil litigation.
Laura acts as first and primary contact for clients on a day-to-day basis, guiding them through the legal process with care and empathy, often exceeding client expectations and achieving the best possible settlements.
Laura is skilled in managing complex rehabilitation packages to meet seriously injured clients’ specific requirements, which often involve obtaining substantial interim payments for treatments, prosthetic limbs and home adaptations.
As a Chartered Legal Executive, Laura also ensures the future needs of her clients, and their families, are fully accounted for when compensation awards are assessed.
Career Highlights
I’m proud to have been involved in a case where a client lost a limb in a motorcycle accident.
We put in place a rehabilitation package to meet his specific requirements, which included obtaining a substantial interim payment in order to privately fund a variety of prosthetic limbs which enable him to continue with life as independently as possible. He was able to return to the gym, something he didn’t think was possible.
Another client I’ve supported sustained a brain injury and complex orthopaedic injuries, also in a motorcycle accident. To ensure a thorough investigation took place we worked tirelessly to analyse CCTV, interview witnesses and consulted an accident reconstruction expert.
We were able to establish the facts relating to speed, line of sight and the distance he was thrown. Liability can mean a client’s damages are substantially reduced, so I fully appreciate no stone should be left unturned.
Recognition
Fellow of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX)
Giving More
I volunteer at my child’s school, helping with reading and I enjoy being an extra pair of hands. I also spend a lot of time on the sides of football pitches, often in the freezing cold!
During Covid lockdowns, I volunteered at a vaccination clinic and as an emergency responder.
