Slater and Gordon

Slater and Gordon support families through some of the most challenging moments of their lives, offering specialist legal advice with empathy, clarity and care. With decades of expertise in securing rehabilitation, funding and long‑term support, Slater and Gordon is committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for every family we represent.

Slater and Gordon's work is strengthened by a wider clinical network, including specialist midwives, nurses and leading independent experts, ensuring every case is approached with both legal and medical insight.

Our medical negligence services

Slater and Gordon provide specialist legal support to families of multiples through our partnership with Twins Trust, offering experience in cases relating to antenatal monitoring, complications during labour, neonatal care failures and long‑term developmental concerns.

Within the team is Helen Lewis, Principal Lawyer and a parent of twins, bringing personal understanding together with decades of legal expertise. Helen works alongside a wider network of clinical professionals including midwives, neonatal nurses and independent experts in paediatrics, psychology, care and occupational therapy, ensuring families receive robust, evidence‑based advice.

We help families access essential rehabilitation, secure the right support packages and ensure that long‑term needs are fully understood. Whether a family is looking for initial guidance or full representation, our approach is centred on clarity, compassion and achieving the best outcomes for children and parents.

Other legal services

Our specialist lawyers support anyone connected with Twins Trust and can assist across a wide range of legal areas. In addition to Medical Negligence, we can help with:

• Personal Injury
• Employment matters
• Family Law
• Wills, Tax, Trusts and Probate
• Education Law
• Industrial Disease

Our people

In my role as a clinical negligence lawyer at Slater and Gordon, as well as the mum of twins, I am a huge supporter of the Twins Trust's commitment to improving maternity standards and support. All too often, I see the consequences of when things go wrong in maternity care and I lead a team who are by the sides of families in these circumstances.

We can also support parents of multiple children in a host of other ways, from knowing their rights around their employment to making plans for their family's future through making a will. Slater and Gordon is absolutely committed to supporting families in every way we can.

Helen Lewis

Email: helen.lewis@slatergordon.uk
Phone: 0161 870 5077

I often describe our lives with twin boys as 'joyful chaos'. They were born when our oldest was only two and are an absolute blessing - but being the parent of multiple babies is a unique and often challenging thing to experience.

When we first discovered we were expecting identical twins, as well as wondering how we were going to cope with adding not one but two new babies to our family, I also experienced a lot of fear and anxiety. Identical twins share a placenta and I was aware of the risks around twin to twin transfusion syndrome, and their health and safe delivery was a concern throughout my pregnancy.

My pregnancy was monitored throughout by fortnightly scans and fortunately everything was fine but the delivery itself was traumatic. I became very poorly with pre-eclampsia and I was rushed onto the high dependency unit immediately after the delivery, where I spent the next few days. Oscar struggled to breathe initially and developed an infection so he spent some time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), meaning we were separated for the first few days. Both boys were then very jaundiced and required treatment.

Thanks to the support we had been given by the Twins Trust, that really difficult time was made just that bit easier. I had attended a special antenatal class organised by Twins Trust aimed at parents expecting multiple births, where I had been able to meet other mums who were expecting twins. We were given information around the risks of the birth and delivering prematurely, which is common for twins. Really importantly, we were supported by Twins Trust to visit the hospital and to have a tour of the NICU before delivering - this helped greatly when it became my reality, because I had been in that environment already and knew more about what to expect.

Thankfully, we all recovered and we were soon able to get home together, but the practical resources from Twins Trust have been so important for our family from the very beginning. We still receive their newsletter all these years on.

Twins Trust is a great support with so many aspects of life, from giving advice on breastfeeding twins, through to offering discounts which can really benefit parents whose resources are unexpectedly stretched by the arrival of more than one child.

Find out more about Helen...

Laura Preston

Email: laura.preston@slatergordon.uk
Phone: 0161 870 5077

I'm a principal lawyer (partner) and team leader in Slater and Gordon's medical negligence department.

I specialise in cases involving all aspects of medical negligence, including birth injuries for mother and baby (Cerebral Palsy, Group B Strep, Erbs' Palsy, vaginal tears), spinal injury, surgical injury, orthopaedic injury, missed or delayed diagnosis, failure to treat and fatal accident cases including inquests. I represent injured patients and their families and have focused solely on this practice area since 2008.

I'm regularly asked to comment as a medical negligence expert for the media on high profile cases I'm working on.

At home, I'm mum to a daughter (5yrs) and identical twin boys (18mths).

Find out more about Laura...

Slater and Gordon is one of Twins Trust's legal partners

Twins Trust does not receive any referral fees from Slater and Gordon. The contact you have with them is confidential. Twins Trust is not involved in the process and will not be made aware of any contact you have with them.