Yagmur Ekici

Practice Areas

Yagmur is a partner in our Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team. She advises and represents individuals in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases.

Yagmur regularly acts for adults and children who have suffered catastrophic and life-changing injuries. In the last two years, Yagmur has settled claims worth an aggregate total of over £30 million, on a capitalised basis. Recent cases include high-value settlements for a child with cerebral palsy, an adult who received a seven-figure settlement arising out of an Occupier’s Liability Claim, a case for a woman who sustained significant and life-changing fourth degree tears during labour, an upper limb amputee, and a young adult whose professional career was derailed following a serious accident at work.

Yagmur is named in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom in both Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Litigation, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Junior Lawyer of the Year category at the Law Society’s Excellence Awards.

Career

Yagmur graduated from the University of York with a BSc in Psychology in 2009 before completing the GDL at BPP Law School the following year

She completed her Legal Practice Course, and subsequently qualified as a solicitor in June 2013. She was appointed as a Partner at Bindmans in 2020 and is the firm’s Training Principal

Professional Memberships

Yagmur is a member of Future First and takes part in encouraging younger students from less advantaged backgrounds to have access to professions such as Law.

Personal

While at university, Yagmur volunteered in secondary schools assisting children with disabilities and learning difficulties with reading and writing.

Yagmur climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in September 2015 to raise money for the North West London branch of Headway, a charity helping those with acquired head injuries and also ran a half marathon in March 2019 to raise money for Headway.

Yagmur volunteers at Brent Citizens Advice Bureau’s Personal Injury clinic to provide free legal advice to people living in North West London.

She is a black belt in Shotokan karate.