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Alida Coates

Alida Coates

Location: Birmingham

Alida Coates heads the Birmingham workplace illness disease team and is also helping develop the team in Bristol. She trained and qualified with Irwin Mitchell in the Sheffield office in 1996. Alida was part of the team involved with the Hancock environmental asbestos case. In 1998 she moved to Birmingham and developed the specialist asbestos team. 

Alida became a partner in 2005. She now heads a team of six solicitors who specialise in asbestos and other work place disease claims. The team covers a wide geographical area. Clients come from Cornwall to Stoke, West Wales to Warwickshire and all areas in between. The team give clear, concise, down to earth expert legal advice but also understand the personal effect that asbestos disease has not just on those living with it, but also on their loved ones. Alida lectures regularly to other professionals who come into contact with those living with asbestos related illnesses.

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