Leigh Day

Leigh Day is a law firm established to combat injustice, representing individuals and communities against entities whose actions have caused harm. The firm has a track record of securing compensation, influencing legal developments, and restoring justice through hundreds of cases. With a team of 800 professionals, Leigh Day provides clients with access to objective, expert legal advice, maintaining open and transparent relationships and ensuring that individuals receive the same quality of legal representation as state bodies, insurers, and multinational corporations. The firm operates across multiple areas of law, advocating for clients wherever injustices occur.

The firm’s practice areas include:

• Personal Injury: Representation for clients who have suffered life-changing injuries, including severe orthopaedic fractures, limb loss, brain and spinal injuries, and bereavement claims. Leigh Day provides exclusive legal support to British Cycling and British Triathlon members, handling hundreds of claims annually.
• Industrial Disease: Representation for clients who develop illnesses, typically from workplace asbestos exposure, with landmark legal rulings shaping the rights of negligence victims, including decisions from the Supreme Court.
• Administrative and Public Law: Leading claimant judicial review and public law practice, undertaking high-profile challenges for charities, civil society organisations, and individuals. Areas of focus include immigration policy, Universal Credit rollout, major infrastructure projects, arms exports, trade policy, and failures to prosecute bribery and corruption.
• Clinical Negligence: A team of 36 lawyers represents clients and families affected by healthcare negligence, working closely with organisations promoting patient safety, including the Patients Association.
• Employment: Representation in complex, high-value employment and discrimination claims, including large equal pay group claims for around 80,000 supermarket workers, challenges to public sector pensions, and litigation involving gig economy workers.
• Environment: Expertise in public law challenges and tort claims related to pollution, radiation, chemicals, pesticides, and sewage. The firm litigates environmental matters involving major infrastructure projects, airports, road and rail schemes, and global environmental cases, including representing communities impacted by overseas corporate activity.
• Human Rights: Specialist services in claims involving the police, immigration, migrants’ rights, unlawful detention, healthcare and social care, inquests, welfare, prisoners’ rights, child and adult abuse, data protection, and environmental planning. The firm has contributed to legal developments on the intersection of human rights and health and social care law.
• International: Pioneering litigation on behalf of claimants in the UK and overseas, including parent company liability, military operations, modern slavery, and corporate accountability in developing countries. Landmark cases have set Supreme Court precedents and obtained outcomes beyond compensation, such as public apologies from governments.
• Product Liability: Representation in significant product liability cases involving home appliances, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food products, and clinical trials. Notable work includes the case that led to “Natasha’s Law” on allergen labelling and group litigation against Volkswagen over emissions defeat devices.

Staffing:

• UK Partners: 86
• Qualified Lawyers (including partners and legal executives): 279
• Fee-Earners (including paralegals and qualified fee earners): 308