Head of the Claimant Personal Injury Department, Pierre Thomas Law, London
Maud Lepez is a dual qualified lawyer (Solicitor of England and Wales and Avocate at the Paris Bar). She specialises in travel law and cross-border claims and practices in both jurisdictions, assisting British victims of accidents abroad, as well as for foreign victims of accidents in England & Wales, or abroad but caused by an English tortfeasor. As a result of Brexit, she now pursues more and more claims in the French jurisdiction for British victims of an accident in France.
She is the head of the claimant personal injury department at Pierre Thomas Law in London and works with a team of English, French and Spanish lawyers.
She has developed an expertise in private international law (conflicts of law and jurisdiction) and has been successful in some recent cases in the High Court of Justice on those issues, including Tate v Allianz IARD [2020] EWHC 3227 (QB); Owen v Galgey [2020] EWHC 3546 (QB); Klifa v Slater & Anor [2022] EWHC 427 (QB).
She is frequently instructed as a French law expert by Solicitors of England & Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, and as an English law expert in France.
A member of APIL, accredited as ‘Senior Litigator’ and ‘Accidents and Illnesses Abroad specialist’, she is also actively involved with PEOPIL, the European Expertise and Experts Institute (EEEI) and the Franco-British Lawyers Society. She is ranked in Band 3 in Chambers & Partners UK 2023: Travel: International Personal Injury (Claimant).