Jill is a leading serious injury lawyer and head of the Serious Injury team at Fieldfisher, representing clients in the UK and internationally.
Jill is recognised by Chambers as a 'Star Individual' and in 2021 was one of a handful of women awarded a Lifetime Achievement in Law UK's Women, Influence & Power Awards. In 2020, she was named Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year at the Personal Injury Awards, and she was included in The Lawyer Hot 100 in 2019. In 2018, she was shortlisted as Woman Lawyer of the Year at the Law Society Excellence Awards. Her team won the Solicitors Journal Personal Injury team of the Year in 2017. Jill is listed in Who's Who.
Her expertise includes brain injury, spinal injury, amputations and other serious orthopaedic injury and fatal injuries following road crashes and work accidents. Jill also represents adult victims of sexual assaults in particular in high profile cases.
Jill is passionate in her support of victims and their families and seek to use the law to campaign for the most vulnerable. She have for many years represented victims of terrorist attacks and successfully campaigned to introduce new legislation that now provides support for British victims of terrorism, wherever in the world that attack occurs. Recently Jill represented the victims of the Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and the Finsbury Park Mosque terrorist atrocities.
Jill is a campaigner in support of women's rights and campaigns to improve women's access to justice. She acted for the UK victims of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and is one of very few lawyers to have taken a civil rape case to trial, and won, without a criminal conviction.
Jill is regularly in the press and has appeared on the BBC, Sky news, ITV, and been involved in a number of documentaries. She has been reported in The Times, The Guardian and other broadsheets alongside Variety and the Hollywood reporter.