Kirsty O'Donnell
Partner
Kirsty earned her honours degree in Law and French at the University of Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow Graduate School of Law on completion of her Diploma in Legal Practice. She completed her traineeship before joining Digby Brown in 2010. She is based our Glasgow office.
As a Partner in the serious injury team, she specialises in claims resulting in brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation and fatalities.
Kirsty is client focused and pushes her cases as hard as she can to achieve the best results for her clients, often securing seven-figure settlements. Rehabilitation is at the forefront of her mind and is always a priority. Kirsty acknowledges that serious injury cases often impact the whole family and a holistic approach is taken to rehabilitation, where possible, both looking at the short to medium term and an individual’s long term needs. Interim payments are often necessary to relieve financial hardship throughout these cases as is support from our welfare rights team for benefits packages.
Kirsty has extensive experience litigating cases in all forums in Scotland, such as Steel v McGills Bus Service Ltd [2015] CSOH 5 – Scotland’s first case to establish a higher duty of care for elderly and vulnerable bus passengers.
Kirsty has acted for multiple clients who have suffered life-changing injuries after an accident, such as her client Gordon who was left with a spinal injury after a careless driver collided with him on his motorbike. Kirsty successfully secured compensation for Gordon, enabling him to make home adaptations that improve accessibility in his wheelchair and to purchase an adapted motorbike so he can continue to ride.
Kirsty is a notary public and is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in personal injury law. She is also accredited as a senior litigator and fatal accident specialist by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
Kirsty has published a number of articles discussing serious injury work in various publications and is the author of a legal textbook discussing periodical payment orders in Scotland. She also was a tutor on the Civil Advocacy Course at the University of Glasgow’s Diploma in Legal Practice course for a number of years.
