Personal injury partner named ‘Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year’ at Personal Injury Awards 2025
Penningtons Manches Cooper personal injury partner Warren Collins has been named as the winner of the ‘Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year’ category at the Personal Injury Awards 2025, for demonstrating impressive technical skill, an ethical approach to litigation, and exceptional client care over the course of the past 12 months.
Celebrating the spirit and application of high standards of practice, the Personal Injury Awards recognise professionals and service providers working in the field of personal injury. The awards are considered a benchmark of excellence in the community of lawyers and professionals supporting injured individuals, and the winners are chosen by an independent panel of industry experts representing claims, legal services, medical reporting, funding, rehabilitation and insurance.
Recognised as one of the UK’s leading catastrophic injury lawyers, Warren impressed the judges with his long-established career that includes both major domestic and international work, high-profile cases, and meaningful contributions to the field. He has spent more than three decades advocating for people whose lives have been completely altered in the most serious and devastating of circumstances, and his work focuses on guiding clients through multiple challenges to secure life-changing outcomes.
Warren’s significant experience has taken him beyond the UK, having pursued personal injury cases across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Caribbean, but his particular expertise is in the United States, where he is a leading member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), in which he is immediate past co-chair of the International Practice Section. He is also the only UK solicitor to be admitted into the USA based Melvin Belli Society of pre-eminent personal injury lawyers, as well as the National Trial Lawyers Top 100.
His expertise is widely recognised by his peers, and he features in both the Legal 500 (where he is in the prestigious Lawyers’ Hall of Fame), and Chambers UK, where he has been ranked as a leading expert for 21 years consecutively. He is a Fellow of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and has been Chief Assessor of the Law Society Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme for over a decade. This award is the latest in a series Warren has received throughout his career, including ‘Eclipse Proclaim Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year’, the ‘Spinal Injuries Association Rebuilding Lives Award in Legal Excellence’, ‘Claimant Injury Lawyer of the Year’, and the ‘UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) Award for Inspiration in Brain Injury’.
See the full list of winners for the Personal Injury Awards 2025 here.