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Rehab4Life is a firm of specialist traumatic brain injury lawyers - neurolawyers - but with a difference.
Different because we are professional lawyers who specialise exclusively in brain injury law and compensation
Different because we put our clients wellbeing at the top of our list of priorities - by working hard to establish optimal multi-disciplinary neurorehabilitation as soon as possible after the injury has occurred
Different because our Director, Andrew Lindsay, has an adult daughter who is severely brain injured – he therefore truly understands, from a victims perspective (because family are victims too!), the life affecting difficulties caused by brain injury. He is also very friendly, has a wicked sense of humour and loves meeting people
In fact, we are fanatical about brain injury issues. We have written in textbooks about it, published a book about it, given lectures on it, live it, breathe it and stay awake at night thinking about it.
It is this passion and commitment which is the driving force behind our success.
Andrew Lindsay (Director)
 First and foremost Andrew is a father. Tracy, his disabled 26 year old daughter, sufferred catastrophic brain injury at birth and he has been involved, at all levels, with her care and welfare ever since. Her physical needs are complex and it has not been easy – it still isn’t - because a disabled family member means a disabled family. Her determined and absolutely charming and mischievous personality is a great force and she has been, and still is, Andrew's greatest inspiration. No one is able to say that he doesn't understand what living with disability involves.
He has been in the law since leaving school at 16 years of age starting off as a paralegal and over the next 10 years gained valuable experience in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation. Shortly after Tracy was born he decided to qualify as a lawyer, so in 1983 left his law job and gained a place at University in Manchester where he studied for an LLB (Hons) and then went on to do his Solicitors Finals at the College of Law, Chester.
He was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in September 1989, at 32 years of age.
He has specialised throughout as a clinical negligence and catastrophic injury lawyer and represented many brain injured children and adults along the way achieving many awards and settlements involving millions of pounds.
He has been a member of both the Law Society’s specialist Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Panels and a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
He was Chair of Governors at a special needs college and has devoted a lot of his time to special needs education and issues, as well as writing contributions for academic publishers on the specialist topic of rehabilitation and having produced the Rehab4Life book on “How to Cope with Traumatic Brain Injury in the Aftermath”.
He is a co-founder and current chair of the North West Acquired Brain Injury Forum (part of UKABIF) and is very interested in the socio-political aspects of acquired brain injury.
He is a neurolawyer – his primary interest is therefore specifically achieving optimal rehabilitation and quality of life on behalf of his clients - not necessarily achieving record damages. Record damages without optimal quality of life is second best, in his opinion.
His interests are travel, skiing, cooking, reading and gardening and his two dogs. He also loves riding his 1200cc motorbike (pictured on this site) up to Devils Bridge at Kirby Lonsdale for a bacon barm and a cup of tea and a chat with other bikers.
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