Neil Kinsella, Managing Partner

• Email:j.n.kinsella@rjw.co.uk
• Telephone:020 7657 1725
• Office: London - 80-86 Gray's Inn Road
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Expertise

Neil Kinsella is the Chief Executive / Managing Partner of Russell Jones & Walker, and specialises in Personal Injury and Sports Law.

Experience

Qualified in 1983, Neil became a Partner in Pannone Napier in 1986 and together with Roger Pannone represented victims of disasters, notably Manchester Air Crash, North Sea Chinook Helicopter Crash, Piper Alpha Disaster.

At Russell Jones & Walker (since 1991). He established specialist unit representing Brain Damaged accident victims and was elected as corporate representative of Headway. He concluded numerous multi-million pound settlements and successfully sued Skoda cars on behalf of a female police officer who suffered serious brain injury when the wheel became detached due to a manufacturing defect. He has also been personally retained by Professional Footballers Association to represent players.

Neil's achievements can be summarised as follows:

• Managed Russell Jones & Walker Manchester office 1999 - 2002
• Head of National Personal Injury Department 2000 - 2003
• Appointed as Chief Executive of Russell Jones & Walker December 2002 to date
• Law society appointed representative on Lord Chancellors Advisory Group on awards of damages in serious injury cases
• Advisor to the Claims Standards Council
• Law Society Personal Injury Panel
• Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel
• Lawyer Hot 100 2004 and 2008
• Association of young international Lawyers (AYIL). Awarded special medal for work on the law of international transport. 

Other Cases

Police Class 5 driver - fatal accident caused by inadequate training for driving in emergency conditions.
Opren - on the steering committee of Lawyers who successfully sued Eli Lilly the manufacturers of the anti-arthritis drug Opren which seriously injured thousands of mostly elderly users due to inadequate testing. Conducted leading case of Davies v Eli Lilly.
Numerous serious injury cases for Police Officers.

Publications

He lectures on a number of legal subjects and in particular on new ways of co-ordinating legal cases and how to improve the services received by the victims of accidents.

Interests and hobbies

Neil is married to Susan, and has two children Jonathan and Francesca.

His interests include:
Remembering punk past
Jazz
Painting
Tennis parent (both his children are world ranked juniors) Cycling