Partner

Stephanie graduated from Leicester University with a BA Honours degree in Classical Studies (Ancient History). After working in London, she embarked on a law conversion course before successfully completing her solicitors’ finals.

During her training, and immediately following qualification, she worked in the Health Department for a firm which specialised in defendant personal injury and clinical negligence litigation. She joined Atherton Godfrey’s Litigation Department in January 2000 and became an associate in 2003 and a partner in 2009.

Stephanie has experience of dealing with a variety of claims arising from road traffic accidents, accidents at work, slips and trips and clinical negligence. She belongs to both the Sheffield Medico-Legal Society and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, where she has accredited status as a Senior Litigator.

She has also taught law at Sheffield Hallam University, as an associate lecturer, on the Torts, Business Law and Law Clinic modules.

Stephanie also provides some departmental training and has shared responsibility for Human Resources.

Some of Stephanie’s successful personal injury cases include:

• For a client who sustained injuries in an exercise class
• Provisional damages for a client who was exposed to asbestos and who suffered pleural thickening
• For a client who suffered a leg injury having tripped over a defect on another’s property
• For a client who tipped in a petrol station
• For a client who suffered a head injury when struck by falling boxes at work
• For a client who was injured when a fork lift truck discharged its load onto his foot
• For a client who suffered chemical burns while working on a construction site
• For a client who suffered a needle stick injury during the course of her employment