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Abigail Ringer

Abigail joined our Medical Negligence team in Spring 2015, having previously worked in medical negligence at a law firm in Cambridge. Abigail graduated in medicine from Cambridge University in 2005 and completed her Legal Practice Certificate with CILEx Law School thereafter. With a solid background in both medicine and law, Abigail brings valuable insights to handling medical negligence claims. She specialises in cases on behalf of children affected by cerebral palsy. She is passionate about enhancing the quality of life of differently-abled children and wrote our Cerebral Palsy Guide as a practical guide for families. She also set up the Little Champions page on Instagram which celebrates the courage of children living with a brain injury. Abigail manages all new birth injury cases which have resulted in a brain injury to the baby. With a solid background in both medicine and law, Abigail brings valuable insights to handling medical negligence claims. She specialises in complex and high value birth injury claims and works closely with partner Kerstin Scheel. · RWK Goodman

EnglandClinical Negligence, Medical Negligence

About

Abigail Ringer is a medical/clinical negligence lawyer at RWK Goodman in England who joined the Medical Negligence team in Spring 2015. A Cambridge medicine graduate (2005) with a Legal Practice Certificate from CILEx Law School, she specialises in complex and high-value birth injury claims on behalf of children—particularly cases involving cerebral palsy and neonatal brain injury—manages all new birth injury cases resulting in a brain injury to the baby, and authored the firm's Cerebral Palsy Guide; she also runs the Little Champions Instagram page and works closely with partner Kerstin Scheel.

Practice areas

Clinical NegligenceMedical NegligenceBirth InjuryCerebral Palsy

Office

Expertise

Cerebral PalsyBirth InjuryPediatric Brain InjuryComplex/high-value birth injury claimsClinical negligence (claimant)

Education

  • Medicine, Cambridge University (2005)
  • Legal Practice Certificate, CILEx Law School

Admissions

  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
  • Bristol Medico-Legal Society
  • Bristol Law Society
  • Society of Doctors in Law