Legal Staff

My Job Title: Personal Injury Solicitor

Date I Joined Ralli: September 2008 

Admitted as a solicitor:  September 2010

Professional Qualifications:

LPC from BPP School of Law, Manchester,
Single Honours LLB from Queen's University Belfast, 2:1
Certificate of Business Education Initiative awarded on behalf of Department of Learning and Education, Queens' University and Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth Texas

What do I do at work?

As a personal injury solicitor I handle a broad range of personal injury matters including road traffic accidents, accidents at work and slips or trips.

I also regularly assist one of the partners with cases of the utmost severity involving acquired brain injury, and permanent disability.

What have I done?

In my pre-final year at university I won a scholarship to study Business in the USA. I was paired with Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, Heart of Cowboy country.  I studied American business practices.  The idea behind the scholarship was to empower students to learn from what was seen at the time the biggest business superpower in the world and come back and use this knowledge and experience in our working lives in the UK.  I had the fortune of studying various other elements such as TV and Film Script Writing, Criminal Law in the US and skill building classes on Leadership.

During the year I had many opportunities to go travelling and spent Christmas in Miami, New Year in New York, summer in California, my 21st birthday in Las Vegas and even managed to fit in Graceland to see the King himself.

Having been bitten by the travelling bug, after I finished my degree I took another year out travelling in 2005- 2006 and went to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Fiji and even manage to work in Australia for 8 months.  I travelled through Australia and worked a number of jobs, the most notable being that as a chamber maid at the Ayer's Rock Resort!  I have recently returned to Australia (as a tourist this time!) to experience New Year under the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House once again.

I am an active member of the Manchester Trainee Solicitor Group and try not to miss an event!  I enjoy networking and making new friends and contacts.   

What do I like?

I like travelling and seeing new places and getting away as much as possible!  I thoroughly enjoy going out and spending quality time with my friends.    I try to get back to Ireland any chance I can in order to sample my mother's home cooking and of course some Irish hospitality.  I also like reading and generally relaxing activities.  I'm a big fan of live music so I try to frequent concerts and festivals any chance I can.

I took part in the BUPA Great Manchester Run in 2009 with a number of my colleagues at Ralli of which I am very proud, as I have never attempted to run any sort of lengths in the past never mind 10k.  I enjoyed it so much I have entered it again this year and hope to beat my Personal Best set last May.   We managed to raise a substantial amount of money for our chosen Charity Factor 50 and hope to beat last year's fundraising attempts. I hope to keep the momentum up and participate in many more events like this as I found my first experience quite rewarding!

Memberships:

Law Society
Manchester Trainee Solicitor Group
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