Rachael Aram

Practice Areas

Rachael specialises in representing Claimants who have sustained severe brain injuries, often lacking capacity and Claimant’s who have sustained spinal cord injuries at paraplegic and tetraplegic levels. She manages one of the specialist serious injury teams at Irwin Mitchell LLP Sheffield Office.

Rachael is the National Chair of the Spinal Cord Injury Group at Irwin Mitchell LLP and the National Early Careers Partner for Serious Injury at the firm, responsible for succession planning, budgeting and supporting our young lawyers just starting their careers at Irwin Mitchell LLP via training contracts, graduate programmes and apprenticeships.

Career

Durham University 1994-97 - Collingwood College, Law LLB (Hons)

Legal Practice Course 1997-98 – College of Law, York

Training Contract at Lanyon Bowdler LLP 1999-2001

Joined Irwin Mitchell LLP in 2002. Appointed Associate in 2007 and appointed as Partner in 2013.

Professional Memberships

· Member of the Law Society

· Accredited Fellow of APIL

· Accredited Brain Injury Specialist APIL

· Accredited Spinal Cord Injury Specialist APIL

· Accredited Assessor for Specialist Accreditation for Brain and Spinal Cord Injury