Team profiles
Tom Doherty
Tom was one of the founding partners of EAD Solicitors and has played a significant role in the transformation of EAD Solicitors from a local high street law firm to a national practice. Tom studied law at Sheffield University and established EAD Solicitors in 1989. He specialises in high-value personal injury claims and is widely recognised in his work for ...
Steve Cornforth - Deputy Managing Partner
Steve studied at Liverpool University and the College of Law in Chester, qualifying in 1980. Steve is now based in the firm's Trade Union Department where he specialises in occupational health cases including asbestos illnesses, deafness and work related stress. During his years as a solicitor, he has handled a number of extremely severe occupational health cases with damages in ...
Mark Johnson
Mark has acted for trade union members in employers' liability and disease litigation claims for over 20 years. He qualified as a Legal Executive in 1990 before completing the legal practice course at Liverpool John Moores University in 2005 to qualify as a solicitor. Mark has also attained Senior Litigator status with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. He has ...
James Gratton
James comes from Merseyside and studied law in Nottingham. He qualified as a solicitor with a local trade union based practice in Liverpool city centre in 1993, becoming a partner in 1998. In 2000, James joined EAD Solicitors as a partner where he continues to specialise in accident claims for people injured at work. James is a member of the ...
Beverley Gullon
Beverley graduated from Liverpool Polytechnic with a non-law degree. She completed her studies on a part-time basis while she was working, qualifying first as a legal executive and then a solicitor. She is proud to have represented trade union members for the whole of her career, working for two other trade union firms before joining EAD Solicitors in 2000. Beverley ...
Paul McCarthy
Paul is a solicitor and partner in EAD Solicitors and graduated from Liverpool University. Paul specialises in accident at work cases and also clinical negligence claims and sat on Lord Woolf's committee dealing with reform of the court rules. Paul has also been the President of both the Liverpool Law Society and the Merseyside Medico Legal Society. ...
Peter Kneale
Peter studied law at Hull University and qualified as a solicitor in 1989. He has specialised in representing trade union members in accidents at work and industrial disease claims since 1994. He acted for one of the claimants in the Fairchild asbestos case in the Court of Appeal in 2001 and is a member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury ...
Georgia Briscoe
Georgia studied law at John Moores University in Liverpool and has been with EAD Solicitors dealing primarliy with employer liability cases of varying complexity and value, including accident claims with damages in excess of £100k. Georgia deals with a broad spectrum of legal matters including industrial disease claims such as noise induced deafness, vibration white finger and asbestos related injuries. ...
Katy Link
Katy has been employed by EAD Solicitors since 1992, qualifying as a Legal Executive in 2004. Katy deals with a varied personal injury caseload which includes employers' liability, public/occupiers liability and road traffic accidents. Katy undertakes both union and non-union cases and is a member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers). ...
Linda Schwartz
Linda is a senior litigation executive within the department and has been with EAD Solicitors for 25 years, dealing with Union and non-Union clients. Linda deals with all aspects of accidents at work, needle stick injuries and road traffic accidents, dealing with cases involving settlements of over £100,000.00. ...